documentary
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During a screening of his 1985 documentary, “The Making of Sun City,” at Springsteen’s Center for American Music in Long Branch, N.J., sources shared that the star was heard discussing his upcoming endeavors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
A documentary examines the still-mysterious conflict—possibly involving professional agitators—that broke out at a game in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The key evidence included interviews Davis gave authorities, a documentary and his own 2019 memoir detailing the killing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Bulls’ 1997-98 season was the subject of the “Last Dance” documentary series released in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
We can only exist together here in our little mise-en-scène at the end of the path—the setting of our own documentary short.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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If a lot of this sounds familiar, that’s because it all unfolded in the New York tabloids and has been widely reported in sports books, magazines and documentaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes are unwitting film fest stars as documentaries about problematic tech titans have dominated news coming out of prestigious film festivals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
The brothers took part in documentaries describing the events around her death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Later, we were permitted to select documentaries — a form that I preferred — and I began to skip the conventional films.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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