documentary
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At the end of the documentary, however, Griezmann stood in front of the Metropolitano and revealed he was staying at Atletico Madrid in one of two different endings reportedly filmed to keep the decision secret.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
A Shropshire vicar played a key role in a new two-part BBC documentary featuring Welsh Hollywood actor Michael Sheen's investigation into toxic waste dumps.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Watch the documentary and read the practical takeaways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The documentary features admiring poets as well as Stephen Colbert, a huge Oliver fan, and the irreverent and colorful John Waters, a longtime friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
From authority: documentary testimony is classified under authority.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
This fascinating book is a study in how archival documentaries in the 1930s lurched forward—from episodic newsreels to hodgepodge feature-length efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
As halting and awkward as they may have been, early archival documentaries required considerable advances in cinematic technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Never mind that countless PBS documentaries have had no trouble realistically depicting revolutionary-era America without AI; Netflix is innovating.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Filming for short films and documentaries were also higher in the second quarter, though those two segments had much smaller numbers of shoot days, FilmLA said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
So when I started explaining McCoy and Celia and everything that had happened this year, she absorbed it the way my parents absorbed war documentaries: with complete seriousness.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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