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Oct 9, 2026
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The Time for Documentaries Is Now - The Tyee
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Lean bands spanned
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Listen to this article 11 min After a rather doldrum-ish period through the early 2000s, when theatrical runs for non-fiction films fell off a cliff, documentary film is enjoying a monumental resurgence this fall.
10, the second-last night of the festival.
When the climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about former American vice-president Al Gore, hit theatres in 2006, the impact felt like a shockwave.
Then in 2009, The Shock Doctrine, the film inspired by Naomi Klein’s book of the same title about the rise of what she called “disaster capitalism,” took audiences by storm.
10, and it will stream online through The Guardian in November.
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B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
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After a rather doldrum-ish period through the early 2000s, when theatrical runs for non-fiction films fell off a cliff, documentary film is enjoying a monumental resurgence this fall. With good reason.
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The state of the world is so extreme at the moment, that it seems only natural for audiences to be looking for explanation, but also an artistic lens through which to help see and understand the chaos more clearly.…
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