documentary

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Salieu likened appearing in the documentary to how people of his generation "expose" themselves on social media.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Speaking in a Nature on PBS documentary, Sir David Attenborough spoke of a huge ape that existed between six and five million years ago, the gigantopithecus.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

A documentary on Fox Sports 1 explores the connection—in the importance of ritual, shared experience and more—between religion and America’s pastime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Putting the experience of making “Faces of Death” in perspective, Goldhaber references Jean-Luc Godard’s famous dictum that every film is a documentary of its own making.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

But the conceit of the film is that it feels like a documentary, even though it isn’t.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed