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Nonfiction films have populated the Academy's shorts categories since the beginning. Here are 7 short documentaries that won Oscars before they got their own category: buff.ly/YaFgW9z
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Happy birthday to Oscar-nominated filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky. Her documentary 'Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements' is essential viewing. Check out our review here: bit.ly/2PEMXUE
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'Catfish' is the most famous, but it's not the only one. Here's a list of other documentaries that inspired TV series, including 'Woodstock,' 'Streetwise,' and 'Street Fight': bit.ly/3ezoP1w
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Looking back over decades of consistently stellar nonfiction programming, we name the 10 best Sundance documentaries of all time: bit.ly/3abfE4U
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'The Iran Job,' about an American basketball player on an Iranian basketball team, premiered on this day in 2012 at the Los Angeles Film Festival. It's now on our list of the best basketball documentaries here: buff.ly/2L7zC2Q
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Today in Documentary
The Holocaust feature 'The Last Twins' (review here: buff.ly/yf9n4Bb) airs on PBS
A new episode of 'History’s Greatest Machines with Dolph Lundgren' airs on History
A new episode of 'Lethally Blonde' airs on Investigation Discovery
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AFCC member Christopher Campbell (@thefilmcynic) lets us know about documentaries releasing this week including #Eno about musician Brian Eno and the UFO doc #TheAgeOfDisclosure nonfics.com/p/week-in-docume… #AFCC #MovieReview #ForTheLoveOfMovies
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On June 14, 2015, the body of Dee Dee Blanchard was found, five days after being murdered by her daughter Gypsy Rose's boyfriend.
Since then, the crime has been depicted in many forms, but never better than in the documentary 'Mommy Dead and Dearest.' buff.ly/etxIaVL
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12 must-see documentaries about environmental disasters, including films by Werner Herzog, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, Noriaka Tsuchimoto, Joe Berlinger, and Ken Burns. buff.ly/ocbfMQB
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The 10 best documentary portraits of LGBT culture, including the 1977 classic 'Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives,' which can now be found on Kanopy and The Criterion Channel: buff.ly/bdAVZ46
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If you're going to watch one flag-waving propaganda film today for Flag Day, we say to make it 'The Battle of Midway' buff.ly/2PVeYJr
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Jorgen Leth, who directed 'The Five Obstructions' with Lars von Trier, was born on this date in 1937.
We included the film on this list of the best documentaries of the 2000s: buff.ly/YlRLCau
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“I knew so little about this couple before seeing this! I love anything that has to do with people who dedicate their lives to making great things (great art).” - Fred Armisen on 'Eames: The Architect and the Painter.' See more of his doc picks here: bit.ly/2OLSrgW
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Two years ago today, Gabriela Cowperthwaite's "incredibly necessary" film 'The Grab' was released in theaters and on VOD.
Watch it now on Kanopy or Hulu and find our review here: buff.ly/VavHjwL
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45 years ago today, Werner Herzog's 'Huie’s Sermon' debuted in theaters in West Germany.
You can watch it now on Tubi or Cineverse and see where it lands on our ranking of all of Herzog's documentaries here: buff.ly/ZwV4amO
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Today in Documentary
New episodes of 'The Food That Built America' & 'Hazardous History with Henry Winkler' debut on History
New episodes of 'The Land' debut on CNN
New episodes of 'Best of the World with Antoni Porowski' debut on NatGeo
Find more here: buff.ly/eEPn4MP
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Sara Dosa follows up her Oscar-nominated 2022 feature, 'Fire of Love,' with another elegiac documentary involving the elements.
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From executive producer Darren Aronofsky, this documentary feature adapted from Robert Macfarlane's nonfiction bestseller offers a triptych showcasing subterranean explorers.
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Felipe Bustos Sierra's film about the Kenmure Street protest is one of the best documentaries of the year, and the one we need the most right now. buff.ly/gTOOKUn
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The history, the heroes, and the scandals... And yes, we included Ken Burns' lengthy miniseries. buff.ly/IY2rt9W
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