documentary
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Parton's death brought renewed attention in Wales to the country music legend's Welsh links, with her heritage explored in a 2025 documentary.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Before his death on July 30, 2023, Reubens recorded interviews for the 2025 Emmy-winning documentary miniseries, “Pee-wee as Himself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The prototypical “Blair Witch Project” convinced some people it was actually a documentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Galán declined to be interviewed for Carr’s documentary, having been thoroughly raked over the coals once the public’s visceral disgust with “The Swan” got it canceled after its second season.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
And who cares if I take some parts from the Batman movie and some parts from a documentary I once watched about Genghis Khan?
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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Social media and shortform video have pushed everything from music to documentaries into a race to truncate their lengths and make everything bite-size, in order to bend to the current of algorithm-centric audiences.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
But it was announced earlier this year that Asif Kapadia, best known for his documentaries on Amy Winehouse and Diego Maradona, would direct the final chapter.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
But his recapitulations of Vyvyan’s battles with the taxman, of bygone court cases and of late-20th-century documentaries and biopics could have been done at half the length.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the American context, after all, Oscar season is just about the last place for broad, sustained attention to challenging studio fare, bold independents, international features and documentaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Theaters showed documentaries as newsreels before the main feature.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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