Autobiographical documentary films

Broke*

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Is it possible for an artist to break? Following on-the-verge artist Will Gray through the recording of his debut album (featuring production by Grammy Award-winning producer, T Bone Burnett), Broke*...

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The Beaches of Agnès

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed...

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Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish filmmakers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.

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Stories We Tell

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implicati...

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I Am

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.5

I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behi...

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When I Walk

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.4

When I Walk approaches the struggles of living with multiple sclerosis and the medical community’s efforts to find better treatments and ultimately a cure with heart, humor, and courage.

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Of Time and the City

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.2

British director Terence Davies reflects on his birthplace of Liverpool - his memories of growing up there and how it has changed in the years since - in the process meditating on the internal struggl...

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Meet the Patels

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Finding love is never easy. For Ravi Patel, a first generation Indian-American, the odds are slim. His ideal bride is beautiful, smart, funny, family-oriented, kind and—in keeping with tradition—India...

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