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 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
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
Aru used to think that the nature documentary she’d seen with two lions fighting each other would be the scariest thing she’d ever watch.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
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
Dr Chris van Tulleken has written books and made documentaries about how bad these foods can be, and he tells me they're "almost impossible to avoid" - even his own family's diet includes a few.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
One of the documentaries we watched concerned a controversial American motorcycle group, the Hell’s Angels.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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