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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003), The Salt of the Earth (2014), Circo (2010), The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009), The Devil's Miner (2005), America's Heart and Soul (2004), The Life of Reilly (2006) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003)
Traveling through the American South, documentarian Andrew Douglas trains his lens on Jim White, an alternative-country musician, as he performs in venues that range in variety from churches to coal mines. During this journey, White shares his experience of growing up in the Deep South, while Douglas interviews a number of other Southern musicians, artists and writers, attempting to gain a perspective on a unique culture that is often overlooked.
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The Salt of the Earth (2014)
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
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Circo (2010)
The Mexican owners of a traveling circus struggle to keep going in the face of dwindling audiences, mounting debt and family conflicts.
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The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
A year in the life of the White family, well known for Jesco White, the star of the "Dancing Outlaw" documentary.
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The Devil's Miner (2005)
Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani profile Basilio, a 14-year-old Bolivian who supports his family by working in a silver mine. Like his fellow workers, the boy looks to Satan for protection from the daily hazards he encounters in the bowels of the Earth.
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America's Heart and Soul (2004)
Filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg hits the road to capture America's people and its natural beauty.
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The Life of Reilly (2006)
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block, what do you think the odds would be that you'd end up a Tony winner, a staple of television, and a generational icon? Enter "The Life Of Reilly". The cliché goes that truth is stranger than fiction. In this case, it is also funnier and more he...Read all
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (2003)
Filmed only a few years before his death, this documentary focuses on the career of Henri Cartier-Bresson, a frustrated painter who became a world-renowned photographer. As he reviews his portfolio of iconic images and notable figures, the notoriously press-shy Cartier-Bresson offers insights into his legendary career, which covered everything from Gandhi's funeral to the fall of China. Interviews with historians and colleagues explore the powerful impact of his globetrotting work.
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Waste Land (2010)
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
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Benjamin Smoke (2000)
This highly unorthodox documentary follows the crooked path of Benjamin (no last name). He lives in a hidden neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia called "Cabbagetown." Drag-queen, speed-freak, all-around renegade, Benjamin left the straight (in every sense of the word) world behind a long time ago.
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The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004)
In 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the world's tallest stone sculptures. By the summer of 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, more than 250 Afghans, most of them Hazara refugees, were living in caves beside the rubble. This film, organized chronologically over four seasons, follows a refugee family living there, including...Read all
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On the Bowery (1956)
Filmmaker Lionel Rogosin turns his camera on the homeless "bums" who frequent New York City's Bowery area.
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Up the Yangtze (2007)
This documentary examine China's rapidly changing economy by focusing on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. For the government, the dam stands as a symbol of progress; but it displaces hundreds of families during its creation. Following local teenagers Chen Bo Yu and Yu Shi, who work on one of the Western cruise lines that sails up the Yangtze near the dam, the film details the friction in Chinese society as its citizens struggle with the realities of its new consumer capitalism.
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Family Fundamentals (2002)
Filmmaker Arthur Dong examines the discord between fundamentalist Christian parents and their homosexual children.
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Makala (2017)
Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
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Grey Gardens (1975)
Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998)
The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film that follows the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers.
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Born Into Brothels (2004)
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
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