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Op-Docs Trailer
by The New York Times
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Op-Docs is a forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced by independent filmmakers with wide creative latitude, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects.
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A. R. Wallace: The Other Guy to Discover Natural Selection - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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This paper-puppet animation celebrates the life of Alfred Russel Wallace, who is co-credited with Charles Darwin for the theory of natural selection.
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Portrait of a Nearly Blind Street Photographer - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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This short documentary profiles the photographer Flo Fox who, in spite of near-blindness and multiple sclerosis, continues her work in the streets of New York.
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An Unfair Game: English Football's Rising Ticket Prices - Op-Docs
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This short film explains a troubling situation in English football, where ticket prices have risen to levels so high that many of the fans can no longer afford them.
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A Short History of the Highrise - Trailer
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Premiering October 2013, "A Short History of the Highrise" is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues of social equality.
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A Short History of the Highrise: Part 1
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In the first episode of a four-part series, "Mud" traces the roots of the residential highrise, from the biblical Tower of Babel to New York's tenement buildings.
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A Short History of the Highrise: Part 2
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In the second episode of a four-part series, "Concrete" explores how, in New York City and globally, residential high-rises and public housing attempted to foster social equality in the 20th century.
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A Short History of the Highrise: Part 3
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In the third episode of a four-part series, "Glass" examines the recent proliferation of luxury condos and the growing segregation between the rich and poor.
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A Short History of the Highrise: Part 4
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In the final episode of a four-part series, "Home" comprises images submitted by New York Times readers, who show their lives in high-rises around the world.
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A Short History of the Morgue
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Inside the New York Times photo archives, known as the "morgue," the filmmaker Katerina Cizek and the archivist Jeff Roth discuss the making of "A Short History of the Highrise."
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56 Ways of Saying I Don't Remember - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Alan Berliner explores memory and forgetting in this short experimental documentary about his cousin Edwin Honig — a poet, translator and professor — and his journey through Alzheimer's disease.
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ParaÃso: Immigrant Window Cleaners at Work in Chicago
by The New York Times
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The Op-Doc "ParaÃso" (Paradise) reveals the beauty and danger of three immigrant window cleaners' work on Chicago's skyscrapers.
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A Short History of the Highrise - Trailer
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No Ordinary Passenger - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In this short film, Stan Dibben, a winner of the World Sidecar Championship in 1953, recounts the thrills and perils of his profession.
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Immigration Reform News: Bodies on the Border - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Forensics experts in Arizona struggle to identify the bodies of migrants who perished while attempting to cross illicitly from Mexico into the United States.
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An Attack on Equality: Gay Couple Tells of Their Assault - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In New York, widely regarded as a gay-friendly city, reports of attacks on same-sex couples are on the rise. Here, one young couple tells their story.
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Occupy Bakery - Op-Docs
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An immigrant fights to change working conditions at a Manhattan bakery cafe.
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Border Patrol Body Slam - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In a California lucha libre-style wrestling match, Blue Demon Jr., a self-proclaimed defender of Mexican immigrants, does battle against wrestlers who portray United States border patrol agents.
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The Caretaker - Op-Docs
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A short documentary explores the tender relationship between a caretaker who is an undocumented immigrant and an elderly woman in the last months of her life.
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West Virginia, Still Home - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Residents of McDowell County, W.Va., share memories and hopes for their rural community -- in jeopardy because of high unemployment and an exodus of young people.
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Escape From North Korea - Op-Docs
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A smuggler named Dragon attempts to guide North Korean defectors across China into safe asylum.
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Subway Ballet - Op-Docs
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Young men perform daring aerial dances in a crowded New York City subway car.
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Ode to Bike Sharing - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In this animation, a New Yorker looks forward to the city's bike-share program and reminisces about riding his bike when the city was very different.
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Sex Offender Village - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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For this Op-Doc video, we visited a small community in Florida known as "Miracle Village," where more than 100 registered sex offenders have settled since 2009. Surrounded by sugar cane fields, the community has become a rare refuge for them as they try to rebuild their lives in one of the only communities that will have them: stringent residency requirements make it almost impossible for them to live anywhere else.
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A Long Ride Toward a New China - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Every summer, the blogger "Tiger Temple" bikes around China to report on rural news stories censored by state-run media.
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Searching for a Mysterious Vigilante Copy Editor - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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A filmmaker searches for a mysterious vandal who has been correcting typos on placards in the sculpture garden of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
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Lost Every Day: Colorado Woman Has No Sense of Direction - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Meet a Colorado woman with a rare neurological disorder who has no sense of direction, even in her own home.
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A Chinese Threat to Afghan Buddhas - Op-Docs
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In Afghanistan, a Chinese mining company threatens to destroy the remains of an ancient Buddhist city, which archaeologists are now racing to excavate.
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The Ghost of Gun Control - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In this animated Op-Doc by Drew Christie, a ghost mourns the failed history of gun control in the United States.
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From the Gregory Brothers: The War on Drugs Is a Failure - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The Gregory Brothers's latest musical mash-up features Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, former Congressman Ron Paul and special guests who argue for the reform of U.S. drug laws.
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Branko: Return to Auschwitz - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor and Oscar-winning producer of "Schindler's List," returns to Auschwitz for the bar mitzvah he couldn't have in his youth.
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Hail, Hail, Freedom in Cyprus: Turning on Immigrants Amid Crisis - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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On the island of Cyprus, the filmmaker Iva Radivojevic explores how the economic crisis has contributed to a rise in hostility toward immigrants.
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Portrait of Mistrust: Food Fears in Japan - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Two years after a tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, the filmmaker Itai Keshet presents a documentary portrait of public fear, mistrust and suspicion about the safety of food.
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The Man Who Sells the Moon - Op-Docs
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This short documentary looks at Dennis Hope, a Nevada man who has made a living "selling" plots of land on the moon.
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Shoot One, Please: A Teenager's First Deer Hunting Trip - Op-Docs
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This short documentary follows a 15-year-old from Stamford, N.Y., in the Catskills, as he hunts his first deer with his father.
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'Drones for America!' - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In this animated satire, a former K.G.B. agent welcomes a future in which Americans live under the watchful eyes of drones.
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Calorie Detective: The Real Math Behind Food Labels - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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With the help of a science lab, the filmmaker Casey Neistat finds that calorie listings on food labels can be highly inaccurate.
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How to Build a Country From Scratch: Creating South Sudan - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Op-Doc: The filmmakers Florence Martin-Kessler and Anne Poiret present a 12-step program to establish the world's newest country: South Sudan.
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True Believers in Justice: A Young Public Defender's Struggle - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Dawn Porter follows Travis Williams, a young public defender in the Deep South, who struggles against long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads to bring justice to all.
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Gospel of Intolerance: U.S. Evangelicals Finance Uganda's Antigay Movement - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Roger Ross Williams reveals how money donated by American evangelicals helps to finance a violent antigay movement in Uganda.
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The Long Wait: A Disabled Filmmaker's Unique Experiment in NYC - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Jason DaSilva reveals the challenges for the disabled in navigating New York City's public transportation system.
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Death of a Prisoner: Tragic Return Home of a Guantánamo Bay Detainee - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.
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In Times Square, It's Terry Jones vs. the Beatles - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In Times Square, protestors counter an anti-Islamic speech by pastor Terry Jones ... by singing the Beatles.
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Solo, Piano - N.Y.C. - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
478,190 views
A lone piano stands curbside in New York City, and a short documentary chronicles the interactions of passers-by as the piano awaits its fate.
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Forgotten in Iraq: Struggling to Help Iraqi Allies in Danger - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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Kirk Johnson, a former U.S.A.I.D. employee, struggles to help resettle Iraqis whose lives are in danger because of their loyalty to the United States. Is President Obama to blame?
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Growing Up in a Still-Wounded South Africa - Miseducation - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Nadine Cloete explores childhood in a part of South Africa plagued by gang culture and violence.
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Lullaby: The Phenomenon of Sleeping Near A.T.M. Machines - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky on homeless people sleeping near A.T.M.'s in a bank, a growing phenomenon in Europe.
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The Fight Over Medical Marijuana - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
123,242 views
An Op-Doc profiles Chris Williams, a medical marijuana grower in Montana who now faces life in prison.
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11 Excellent Reasons Not to Vote? - A Film by Errol Morris - Op-Docs - Elections 2012
by The New York Times
23,130 views
The filmmaker Errol Morris speaks with young Americans about the merits of voting and why some resist, from apathy to awkward family dinners.
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Bronx Obama - Op-Docs - Elections 2012
by The New York Times
12,752 views
In this short documentary we meet Louis Ortiz, an unemployed man from the Bronx whose life is turned upside down when he discovers his uncanny resemblance to President Obama.
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Three Strikes of Injustice - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
7,698 views
A documentary profiles Shane Taylor, one of more than 4,000 nonviolent offenders serving life in California prisons under a three-strikes law.
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Electoral College 101 - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
50,524 views
In the latest episode of the Op-Docs series "Electoral Dysfunction," the political humorist Mo Rocca consults a third-grade class on the fairness of the Electoral College.
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Patriot Game - Op-Docs (Obama vs Romney)
by The New York Times
283,911 views
The Gregory Brothers present a video game-inspired musical mash-up of President Obama and Mitt Romney's speeches from the recent nominating conventions.
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Scouted: Siberian Fashion Model Casting - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
150,131 views
The filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin examine the lives of teenage girls in Siberia who audition at open casting calls for fashion models.
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Soda Ban Explained - OpDocs
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Casey Neistat presents a guide to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal to restrict sales of big sugary drinks in New York.
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The Right to Vote - Electoral Dysfunction - Elections 2012 - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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In the first episode of an Op-Docs series called "Electoral Dysfunction," the political humorist Mo Rocca explores a curious fact about the U.S. Constitution: why is there no universal right to vote?
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NSA Whistle-Blower Tells All - Op-Docs: The Program
by The New York Times
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The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.
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Dismantling Detroit - Op-Docs
by The New York Times
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The filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady look at young men who salvage scrap metal from Detroit's derelict buildings, set against the backdrop of globalization.
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