documentary

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The BBC contacted the care operator to seek a right of reply prior to broadcasting the documentary.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

“He seemed like a level-headed person,” one friend says of Richard “Beebo” Russell, the subject of the documentary “#Skyking.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Born in 1951, in Dunfermline, Fife, Allan became interested in snorkelling and diving after watching Jacques Cousteau's film, The Silent World, a 1956 documentary which was one of the first to use underwater filming.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

But it’s also worth remembering that none of it was ever intended to be a documentary.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

“What I had in my safe at Rand,” Ellsberg would later recall, “was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents and their administrations over twenty-three years.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin