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Freakonomics
2010 • Documentary
Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Crazy, Not Insane
2020 • Documentary
Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With…
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Catching Hell
2011 • Documentary
After the Chicago Cubs blow an opportunity to reach the World Series in 2003, Cubs fans blame the team's misfortune on fellow fan Steve Bartman, who interfered with a foul ball…
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015 • Documentary
GOING CLEAR intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of relig…
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008 • Documentary
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction…
Why matched: genres Documentary
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019 • Documentary
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. T…
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Zero Days
2016 • Documentary
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli go…
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 • Documentary
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Why matched: genres Documentary
The Armstrong Lie
2013 • Documentary
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong…
Matched on: Gibney
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010 • Documentary
An in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.
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Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014 • Music • Documentary
James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of the most influential artists…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
No Stone Unturned
2017 • Documentary
Ireland's victory over Italy at the World Cup in New Jersey in 1994, remains a source of Irish pride. But it is haunted by memories of a massacre: terrorists opened fire and kil…
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Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010 • Documentary
A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.
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Taxi to the Dark Side
2008 • Documentary
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and k…
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We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
2013 • Drama • Documentary
Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democr…
Why matched: genres Drama, Documentary
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012 • Documentary
Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States an…
Matched on: Gibney
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
2015 • Documentary
When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in t…
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Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream
2012 • Documentary
If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. This address boasts the highest number of billionaires in the United Sta…
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The Last Gladiators
2012 • Documentary
In ice hockey, no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the star players at any price. Exploring the violent world of hockey fights, Academy…
Matched on: Gibney
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 • Music • Documentary
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary