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Primary
1960 • Documentary
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order t…
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
1963 • Documentary
During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robe…
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Reagan
2011 • Documentary
Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president, Ronald Reagan.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Lions Love
1969 • Comedy
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Why matched: genres Comedy
When You're Strange
2010 • Music • Documentary
The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison— made The Doors one of America…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
1981 • Drama • Documentary
Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and phy…
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Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019 • Music • Documentary
50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground, evokes the freedom, passion, communit…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
King in the Wilderness
2018 • Documentary
A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
2012 • History • Documentary
The story of how, in 1970, the social activism of young UCLA philosophy professor Angela Davis led her to become involved in a failed kidnapping attempt that ended in a shootout…
Why matched: genres History, Documentary
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 • Music • History • Documentary
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and uni…
Why matched: genres Music, History
The Killing of America
1981 • Crime • Documentary
A documentary of the decline of America, composed of archival material and exclusive footage, carnage, madness, and mayhem with an unapologetic sincerity on the factual depictio…
Why matched: genres Crime, Documentary
Bobby
2006 • Drama
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador…
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O.J.: Made in America
2016 • Crime • History • Documentary
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
Why matched: genres Crime, History
The American Nightmare
2000 • Horror • Documentary
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Why matched: genres Horror, Documentary
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 • Drama • History
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018 • Documentary
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spo…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Hearts and Minds
1974 • War • Documentary
Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnames…
Why matched: genres War, Documentary
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
2018 • Documentary
The story of Elvis Presley the musical artist, a comprehensive creative journey from his childhood through the final 1976 Jungle Room recording sessions.
Why matched: genres Documentary
The Doors
1991 • Music • Drama • History
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021 • History • Documentary
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, w…
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