documentary
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Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing direct this rancorous but absorbing documentary about a divorce between lawyers that turned appallingly ugly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
More women have come forward to make allegations about disgraced entertainer Russell Brand, in interviews with the Times and a new Netflix documentary.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
In the new volume of letters, the Harvard editorial team still claims there is “a paucity of documentary evidence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Internationally, however, the documentary doesn’t have permission for using them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
I’m more of a documentary and modern movies kind of girl.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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Dosage directions, the kind you find on pharmaceuticals, aren’t customary in reviews of documentaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
“The Greatest” is the latest in a voluminous array of books, documentaries and films created over the years about the larger-than-life figure whose fame intersected sports, entertainment and political and religious lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
In many adventure documentaries, the audience expects the main characters to confront the possibility they might die, but they’re the stars telling the story, so of course that won’t happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
That’s the wonderful thing about documentaries: They might deal in reality, but the genre uses nonfictional perspective to highlight the difference between fact and truth.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
But Annabeth being who she was—well, if she could struggle through Ancient Greek architecture books and enjoy documentaries on the History Channel, I guessed the Sirens would appeal to her, too.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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