documentary films

As her thirteenth birthday nears, Ana is very happily making a behind-the-scenes documentary at the zoo her parents run and delighted that her best friend, Liv, is visiting from New Zealand, but things start to fall apart when she brings her old and new friends together.

With no memory of a long ago traumatic night, a seventeen-year-old aspiring documentary maker uses her camera to keep the world at a safe distance, but her latest subject, a forlorn and mysterious boy, sends her into a perilous, mind-bending journey.

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When a second documentary crew arrives at Westside Middle School to film a renowned Hollywood designer's renovations, seventh-grader Trevor Jones is chosen to join the design team and faces a makeover of his own.

Greg Dunsmore, who is bullied for being overweight and is making a documentary of his weight loss to get into film school, records footage of hazing by his town's championship-winning lacrosse team, and he must decide whether or not to expose it.

A brief overview of documentary filmmaking covering the various subgenres, such as historical documentaries and nature films, and including an examination of documentary's core controversies involving objectivity, advocacy, and bias.

In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hern?andez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of ten of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. Lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" from a legal system that recognized only blacks and whites.

"Ever since his mom died, Cole feels stuck. He just wants to graduate and leave his small, suffocating town. And everything is going according to plan--until Cole discovers the one secret that could keep him there...forever"--.

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.

A remarkable portrait showing the inner world of the great Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The documentary is based on Sokurov's talks with Solzhenitsyn and his wife in their home near Moscow. The film's focus is not stirctly biographical;, the writer is of interest to the filmmaker more for his attitudes, thoughts and present life, than for his legendary past.