documentary

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Major League Baseball did commission a documentary, as it always does, but the film was not ready for release by the time spring training started.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed Matthews.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Collect all five, though, and you still don’t get the behind-the-scenes access that a documentary does.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

After serving 16-and-a-half months of his sentence, he was released on probation and has since been working to rebuild his life, which was recently the subject of BBC Three documentary The Trials of Pa Salieu.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The program was a documentary, about one of those wars.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood