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A perfect family movie, a perfect date movie, and one of the most eye-ravishing documentaries ever made.
Very few documentaries ever enjoy theatrical release, and only then it is usually through smaller film companies with connections in the limited art house circuit.
That film has earned $6.3 million at the box office since its release and ranks 20th among the most successful documentaries ever, according to Box Office Mojo, in no small part because of a blast of publicity.
It's one of the greatest, most audacious, most original documentaries ever made, one that poses — and, what's more, responds to — questions of cinematic form and moral engagement that underlie the very genre, the very idea of nonfiction film.
The Discovery Channel has on its résumé some of the most beautiful, life-affirming documentaries ever broadcast, among them "Life" (2010) and "Planet Earth" (2007), with another, "Frozen Planet," coming up this weekend.
In 1996 the voting procedure on documentaries was changed when Hoop Dreams, considered by many to be one of the greatest documentaries ever made, did not even feature on the nominations list.
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His sprightly, intelligent commentary appears, seemingly, in every film documentary ever made.
Neither is Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah," a worthy candidate for the greatest documentary ever made.
In 1994 the Public Broadcasting System released Ken Burns's nostalgic Baseball, arguably the most monumental historical television documentary ever made.
Discovery Channel executives said it was the most-watched cable documentary ever.
When released, it rapidly made more than $100 million to become the most successful documentary ever made.
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