Celebrity documentaries like Pamela, a love story; Pee-Wee as Himself; and Elvis Presley: The Searcher represent varying degrees of access and exploration in a growing field of docs about famous names.
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Sophie Bédard Marcotte observes her own Sisyphean task of making a documentary, but finds a love story instead in I Lost Sight of the Landscape.
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Who Killed the Montreal Expos? explores the loss of the beloved baseball team and US-Canada divides in culture, sport, and business.
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Especially in cultures that safeguard family secrets to a fault, Palimpsest: The Story of a Name demonstrates the value in opening the vault.
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The life and nature in Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory will leave you speechless as seen in Darlene Naponse's documentary Aki.
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Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League has good intentions with its story of helping athletes find success on the continent has good intentions, but plays like PR.
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As the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its fiftieth edition, our writers pick fifty documentaries that helped define the festival in its first five decades.
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An interview with It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley director Amy Berg on her years in the making documentary about the late singer and the women in his life.
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The lingering effects of nuclear fallout across generations from Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Test Site is considered in the well-meaning documentary We Live Here.
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