documentary
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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
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
Watch the documentary and read the practical takeaways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Fittingly, for a man so bent on proving himself the greatest of all time, Djokovic paired up with director Jason Hehir, best known for “The Last Dance,” the documentary about Michael Jordan and the Bulls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
While filming the documentary about outsourcing, the TV crew and I spent an evening at the Indian-owned “24/7 Customer” call center in Bangalore.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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
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
Siebel Newsom leads the Representation Project, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity through film and education programs, and Girls Club Entertainment, a for-profit production company she owns that holds the copyrights to her documentaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
I was upset that I’d never be able to thank her, to laud her for pushing students out of their comfort zones by showing them documentaries that were not easily palatable.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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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