documentary
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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 documentary ‘Asco: Without Permission’ premieres on PBS on Oct.
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
The inquiry heard that following the broadcast of a Panorama documentary in 2000 Ware received threats believed to be from the Real IRA.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
“She was amazing. I don’t know how she knew what she knew. Maybe she overheard us earlier? She checked on me and introduced me to this guy named Levi. He’s a documentary filmmaker.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Criterion Collection package also includes Kubrick’s three short films, archival interviews, and several documentaries about the director—including the revealing one made by Vivian Kubrick, who followed her dad around as he filmed “The Shining.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
He has accused the Oscar-winning filmmaker, whose documentaries have tackled Scientology, Enron, Lance Armstrong and Elizabeth Holmes, of having “zero integrity” and dismissed his movies as “boring af.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sir Nicholas' work has been the subject of a number of different films and documentaries, most recently the biopic One Life.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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
We both stay exactly where we are, like in those nature documentaries where two animals are about to get into a fight, but first they just stare each other down.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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