documentary

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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

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

Since the Netflix debut of the documentary “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel,” Forbes reports that “Can’t Stop” has been climbing the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 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

Instead of continuing to work on our research projects, he pops in a documentary about World War II, which we’ve already covered.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez