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

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

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

He turned out to be an American documentary filmmaker named Christopher Quinn.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau