Documentaries

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As SS United States arrives in Alabama, a documentary about the ship is underway

Philly director's documentary on 1960 fight to desegregate amusement park has two local screenings this month

Civil rights documentary

What to stream: 'Unstoppable,' 'MLK/FBI' and 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl'

Streaming guide

These 5 documentaries showcase the wide range of Philly's music scene

Philly music documentaries

Questlove is making a documentary about 'SNL' musical performances to mark show's 50th anniversary

Questlove SNL documentary

Boyz II Men movie to tell story of the R&B group's decades-long career

John Legend-produced documentary explores Philadelphia's unique brand of soul music

Philly sound Teddy Pendergrass

Documentary chronicles the raunchy, ridiculous history of the Wing Bowl

Wing Bowl doc

Philadelphia Film Festival will screen Oscar contenders and a Wing Bowl documentary

Philadelphia Film Festival

Adam McKay now an executive producer on 'Union' documentary about Amazon warehouse workers

Questlove's next film project will be a documentary on Earth, Wind & Fire

Lizzy McAlpine to release documentary about the making of 'Older' album

Rockers Low Cut Connie to debut film next month featuring concert footage and off-stage antics

Low Cut Connie

Penn Vet program for search-and-rescue dogs featured in Netflix documentary

Penn Vet Netflix

Lower Merion native tasked with writing soundtrack for 'road trip' documentary about U.S. National Parks

Lower Merion composer

New Bruce Springsteen documentary coming to Hulu, Disney+ in October

New Hope Film Festival to show Malcolm Kenyatta documentary

Kenyatta Documentary

Hulu docuseries follows Bon Jovi from New Jersey beginnings to current crisis

Bernard Hopkins, Tim Witherspoon featured in new boxing documentary 'In the Company of Kings'

Penn Relays documentary explores history, cultural significance of annual track meet at Franklin Field

Penn Relays Documentary

New documentary about Phoenixville's Firebird Festival to play at Colonial Theatre

Firebird Festival documentary

Tierra Whack's pseudo-documentary 'Cypher' to stream on Hulu later this month

New HBO documentary follows Philly high schoolers as they record an album

Stand Up & Shout documentary

In 'Bad Things in Philadelphia,' the film shows how programs for youth could ease the city's gun violence crisis

Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia

'Kelce' is Prime Video's most-watched documentary in US

Rittenhouse Square stabbing docuseries uses Sean Schellenger's death to explore criminal justice in Philly

Sean Schellenger docuseries

Documentary exploring former Pa. state Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell's grief and activism to debut on PBS this fall

Murders That Matter

Trailer for Jason Kelce documentary shows the Eagles center mulling retirement

Kelce documentary trailer

Jason Kelce's upcoming Eagles season to be documented for Prime Video series

Jason Kelce prime

HBO's 'Telemarketers' docuseries investigates N.J. call center scam

Telemarketers HBO

Filmmaker interviews one author from each state for documentary, including Pa.'s Carmen Maria Machado

carmen maria machado documentary

BlackStar Film Festival returns next month with 93 film screenings at three Philly theaters

BlackStar Film Festival

'Midnight Oil,' a documentary about the 2019 Southwest Philly oil refinery explosion, now streaming on YouTube

Midnight Oil Documentary

New HBO docuseries revisits 1990s serial killings of gay men from Philly and N.Y.

Last Call HBO

Joel Embiid starts media company, will release documentary on his life

Embiid media company

'The League,' sports doc produced by Questlove and Black Thought, chronicles the rise of Negro League baseball

The League Documentary

Interview: 'Everything But The Chip' director details making of 2001 Sixers documentary

Documentary short follows Tarik Khan, the nurse practitioner who delivered COVID vaccines to Philadelphians

tarik khan.jpeg

The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival is back: here's what's playing and where

Independent Film Festival

New Lyme disease documentary aims to bring awareness to the tick-borne illness and spur research efforts

Lyme disease documentary

Netflix used man's photos in film, mistaking him for hitchhiker who killed N.J. attorney, lawsuit says

Netflix Lawsuit Hitchhiker

Screen 'Stephen Curry: Underrated' during Philadelphia Film Festival SpringFest

PFS SpringFest

4 documentaries on Irish history and culture to stream for St. Patrick's Day

Irish Documentaries

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