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Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance
This film follows the lives of three boxers as they prepare to compete in muay thai tournament. The boxers featured in this documentary include a 27 year old Harvard graduate looking to learn from a retired boxing champion, a 29 year old mother of two who has always wanted to box, and a 13 year old boy, learning[...]
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Biology of Dads
Child psychologist Laverne Antrobus goes on a journey to discover why dads are so important. Through a series of revolutionary experiments, she discovers how changes in a man's hormones during his partner's pregnancy actually serve to boost his nurturing instincts. Laverne's final investigation is perhaps most intriguing of all: can a father's relationship with his[...]
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Pickpocket King Bob Arno
In one of the most notorious places for pickpockets, Naples, Italy, some of the world's best pickpockets challenge Bob Arno to a match of skills. In this strange National Geographic documentary, a real gang of pickpockets demonstrate how they steal and we see a human side that victims can't imagine. Then an amazing celebratory dinner[...]
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Marked – Death of the Yakuza
This short documentary explores the meaning behind the artwork on the tattooed bodies of the[...]
Watch Documentary Online NowDocumentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.
A 'documentary film' was originally shot on film stock — the only medium available — but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film
PARK AVENUE – Money, Power and the American Dream
Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) presents his viwe of how the gap between rich and poor Americans is so contrasted, as illustrated by this famous boulevard in New York City. "Money is being used to buy results". If you thought you can rise to the top[...]
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Richard
Richard is the fascinating story of a travelling piano tuner who chooses to live outdoors. Shot in London, the film takes an alternative look at someone who treats the entire city as a[...]
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Allen Iverson: The Answer Documentary
The full length documentary on one of the most prolific NBA basketball players, Allen[...]
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The Empire in Africa
The rebels who started the civil war in Sierra Leone 15 years ago wanted only one thing: to reclaim the richness of the country from foreign corporations in order to end the exploitation of its people. In response, the international community decided to wage a war on this country, with bombs, executions, torture, rigged elections[...]
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When Albums Ruled the World
Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular[...]
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Frank Gardner’s Return to Saudi Arabia
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner returns for the first time to Riyadh, the city in Saudi Arabia where he was shot by Al Qaeda in 2004 and left dependent upon a wheelchair. Travelling in this important and mysterious country, he explores how it has so far avoided an Arab Spring[...]
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DPRK: The Land Of Whispers (North Korea Travel Documentary)
North Korea lies somewhere between a 1930′s Soviet Union frozen in time and a dark, futuristic vision of society... as imagined back in the 70′s. "Land of Whispers" invites you to visit arguably the most unique and isolated travel destination in the world - not to criticize, but to observe and listen. Aside from usual highlights[...]
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The Last Great Pharaoh
Egypt’s Golden Empire: The Last Great Pharaoh, The reign of Ramesses II – also known as Ramesses the Great – marked the high point of the New Kingdom and the high point of Egyptian culture. But like any empire, it was all downhill as the New Kingdom gradually fell into ruin. Tall and strong, Ramesses was[...]
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Landfill Harmonic
Landfill Harmonic- The world sends us garbage... We send back music.
Landfill Harmonic reveals a mind-boggling, inventive effort to change that - musical instruments made from trash. In the barrios of Paraguay, a humble garbage picker uses his ingenuity to craft instruments out of recycled materials - and a youth orchestra is born. Music arises[...] Watch Documentary Online Now
Made by Hand / No 3 The Beekeeper
Local farmer Megan Paska has witnessed beekeeping as it morphed from an illegal (and possibly crazy) habit to a sustainable, community-supported skill. Mirroring beekeeping’s own ascendance, she found more than just a living: “This is the first time in my life when I’ve just felt absolutely on the right path.” A project from bureauofcommongoods.com,[...]
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