Semi-documentary
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    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994)

    A collage of short films blends together into a semibiographical account of the reclusive classical...

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    American Splendor (2003)

    Fiction and reality blend in this portrait of Cleveland-based writer Harvey Pekar, author of the...

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    My Winnipeg (2008)

    Filmmaker Guy Maddin's whimsical portrait of his Manitoba hometown.

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    The F Word

    A radio-talk-show host (Josh Hamilton) marches through Manhattan, N.Y., when the Federal...

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    Man on Wire (2008)

    Frenchman Philippe Petit makes an illegal high-wire walk across the World Trade Center.

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    The Source (1999)

    Filmmaker Chuck Workman charts the achievements of Beat notables Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,...

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    Richard H Kline

    Versatile, veteran cinematographer whose best work includes the semi-documentary "The Boston...

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    Jacquot (1993)

    The wartime childhood of French director Jacques Demy, who was filmmaker Agnes Varda's husband.

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    This Is Elvis (1981)

    Actors (David Scott, Paul Boensch III, Johnny Harra) portray Elvis Presley at various ages, combined...

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    Musica Cubana (2006)

    Taxi driver Barbaro picks up the maestro, 85-year-old Pio Leiva, one of the stars of "Buena Vista...

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    Night and Fog (1955)

    A glimpse into the remnants of the Nazi death camps intercut with stills and some color footage to...

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    Touching the Void (2004)

    British mountain climbers Joe Simpson (Brendan Mackey) and Simon Yates (Nicholas Aaron) try to scale...

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    Ici et ailleurs (1976)

    Godard, Miéville and Gorin (aka the "Dziga Vertov Group") examine the parallel lives of two families...

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    The Rehearsal

    Semi-documentary on the massacre of students by the Greek junta.

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    Nobody Wants Your Film (2005)

    Nobody Wants Your Film is a film about the making of an independent feature that nobody wants, at...

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    The Puppetmaster

    Based on the memoirs of Taiwan-born Li Tien-lu, a famed exponent of traditional hand puppetry, whose...

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    Radiant City (2007)

    While he (Clancy Brown) is comfortable living in a Brooklyn housing project, she (Kirstie Alley) is...

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    The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

    The Man who Saw Tomorrow is none other than Michel de Nostradamus, the French doctor who lived in...

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    Exhibition

    This hardcore pornographic film combines explicit footage of porn star Claudine Beccarie with a...

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    Dynamite Chicken

    This film contains a collection of commercials, interviews, and music featuring Joan Baez, Richard...

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    From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1996)

    Jean Seberg's story, from her Cinderella-like rise to celebrity in Otto Preminger's SAINT JOAN in...

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    Medium Cool (1969)

    TV news camera find himself becoming personally involved in the Violence which erupts around the...

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    Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

    Filmmaker James Marsh creates re-enactments of bizarre deaths and disasters in 1890s Black River...

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    London (1994)

    After a seven-year absence, the film's unseen "narrator" returns to London and explores the city and...

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    Nevinost Bez Zastite

    Innocence Unprotected was originally filmed in 1941 under the title Nevinoz bez Zastite; it was...

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    Courtesans of Bombay (1986)

    The Merchant-Ivory team adopts a semi-documentary stance in Courtesans of Bombay. Though several...

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    Plurielles

    Using a variety of formats ranging from fictional segments to documentary interviews, the...

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    A Idade Da Terra

    Brazilian director Glauber Rocha has come up with a confusing socio-political film, a visual and...

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    The Kid Who Couldn't Miss

    This biographical semi-documentary casts a slight shadow of human vulnerability and a little doubt...

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    The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

    In an era when opinion polls seem to determine the opinions of politicians, it is good to be...