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All Biographical and Profile Documentaries

This group collects the Documentary and Nonfiction Film subcategory's members centered on the life, career or personality of one named individual or a small profiled group, outside a specifically musical career (filed under this subcategory's own Music Documentaries group instead): artists and writers (Crumb, F for Fake, Leonora and Gabriel, Robert Frost, The Titan: Story of Michelangelo, Pretty Dirty), public figures (RBG, The Eleanor Roosevelt Story, The Times of Harvey Milk, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller in Her Story, Won't You Be My Neighbor?), and other profile subjects including internet celebrities (Butterflies) and a filmmaking production chronicle centered on its director (Hearts of Darkness).

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1922 1
All Biographical and Profile Documentaries
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Nanook of the North, lead section
Quote, Wikipedia: Nanook of the North, lead section
Nanook of the North is a 1922 American silent film that combines elements of documentary and docudrama/docufiction, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist.
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