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This fascinating, tuneful documentary considers the particularly Japanese pop phenomenon in which young men and women sing upbeat anthems in colorful costumes for fickle fans — fans who can pivot in an instant from scarily obsessed to dismissive.
Instead, Fong spent a good part of his documentary considering time, and how we measure it, as well as the way our brains work in stressed situations.
If you're having difficulty finding the motivation or inspiration to make your own documentary, consider watching and/or researching any of the influential documentaries listed below.
Josh Fox, the film-maker behind the anti-fracking documentary Gasland, considers Western, Pennsylvania a case study in harm.
I was reminded of this again last night when I watched ESPN's rebroadcast of "The Fab 5," a documentary that considers the legacy of the Michigan basketball program in the early nineties, and the five freshman — among them Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, and Jalen Rose — whose styles of play and dress made them symbols of their era.
The amazing monochrome images created by 71-year-old Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado are the subject of this deeply considered documentary study, co-directed by Wim Wenders and the photographer's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
At a media call for the film, she (Lisa Posard) confirmed that after the resistance they received from white-supremacists over their holocaust documentary, they considered abandoning the vaccine documentary all together.
Wilson fell asleep watching a Bo Jackson documentary and — considering what he did after he woke up — allowed that "maybe I was dreaming a bit about that".
Sokolovsky's documentary was considered newsworthy within the Yishuv (the Jewish settlements in Palestine), and some of the scenes were proudly staged for the cameras.
The documentary film Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price shows images of Walmart goods-producing factories in poor condition, and factory workers subject to abuse and conditions that the documentary producers considered inhumane.
