Most Similar Movies to The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
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Circo (2010), Stevie (2002), The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2003), Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992), The Devil's Miner (2005), The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002), 4 Little Girls (1997) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
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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Stevie (2002)
After not seeing his younger friend for several years, documentary director Steve James decides to catch up with the Illinois boy he once mentored. No longer the nerdy preteen James once knew, Stephen Fielding is now a damaged adult who has had repeated problems with the law. While reproaching himself for not maintaining a closer relationship with his old friend, James tries to understand Fielding's evolution from abused child to a man convicted of serious crimes.
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The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2003)
The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
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Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
Nick Broomfield explores the media circus surrounding the case of America's first textbook female serial killer.
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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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The Execution of Wanda Jean (2002)
"The Execution of Wanda Jean" chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen. By telling one woman's story, the film becomes an unforgettable exploration into one of America's most controversial moral and political dilemmas: the death penalty. "The Execution of Wanda Jean" is an unflinching investigation of the role that poverty, mental health, race, and sexuality play within the criminal justice system.
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4 Little Girls (1997)
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Dark Days (2000)
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
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The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006)
Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.
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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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Last Train Home (2009)
Forced to live far away, two Chinese factory workers make an arduous journey once a year to visit their children, who barely know them.
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Licensed to Kill (1997)
Filmmaker Arthur Dong interviews men who were imprisoned for slaying gays. Dong, who was physically attacked because of his own sexuality in the 1970s, tries to ascertain the convicts' motives and learn why they would commit such heinous crimes.
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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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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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The Imposter (2012)
A documentary centered on a young man in Spain who claims to a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
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The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
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God Knows Where I Am (2016)
Through diary entries, this documentary follows the life and death of homeless woman Linda Bishop and her struggles with starvation, sanity and God.
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Into the Abyss (2011)
Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
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