The Document

The Document

The Document is KCRW's new kind of mashup of documentaries and radio - telling addictive, real life, right now stories.

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“Circus of Books” - The Jewish Factor

Making a film with mom, dad, and LA’s most beloved gay porn store.

00:25:41
Jul 15, 2019 9:0 AM
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Preschool Panic

Pulling back the dark veil of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.

00:31:52
Apr 17, 2019 9:0 AM
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Underground

Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson brings us the story of the made-in-secret documentary “Underground.” How did director Emile de Antonio manage to find - and film - the wanted fugitives of the leftist Weather Underground?

00:33:37
Mar 27, 2019 9:0 AM
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A Hard Truth

The story of two films - a narrative and a documentary - made inside a fully functioning, maximum-security prison.

00:32:59
Mar 8, 2019 9:0 AM
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Lamerica

An Italian filmmaker drives across the country looking for his vision of America.

00:18:45
Jan 30, 2019 9:0 AM
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The Yellow Laugh

A notorious dictator demands a recut of the documentary about him – or else.

00:20:29
Dec 12, 2018 12:0 PM
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Chef Flynn

What happens when a prodigy chef realizes his dream, at 19?

00:16:42
Nov 14, 2018 9:0 AM
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Free Solo

Will the cameras kill Alex Honnold on his free solo climb of El Cap?

00:21:01
Oct 3, 2018 9:0 AM
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Return to Rockford

A filmmaker steps out from behind the camera to interview his mom about his family’s excruciating past.

00:22:19
Aug 21, 2018 5:0 PM
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Dark Money

The toxic pit that’s the country’s largest Superfund site is a painful reminder of the corruption of Montana’s Copper Kings...and a warning of what corporate spending can still do to democracy today.

00:13:56
Jul 18, 2018 9:0 AM
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Love Means Zero

A Grand Slam of an interview with tennis coaching legend Nick Bollettieri.

[Explicit Content]

00:20:30
Jun 20, 2018 9:0 AM
Explicit
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Cuba and the Cameraman...and his Daughter

The perks and perils of growing up in the family business, traveling the world and making documentary films.

00:20:42
Mar 21, 2018 3:0 PM
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Music and Meaning

A filmmaker and composer pull back the curtain on how they use music to shape the way we experience documentaries.

00:18:49
Mar 7, 2018 3:0 PM
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Bad is Good

A story about a Neil Simon play gone bad - and the documentary that was going to make everything better. [Explicit language]

00:30:46
Feb 21, 2018 3:0 PM
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Committed

Brian Watts went to prison when he was 18. When he got out on parole, he was 42, and on a mission to find love - for the very first time.

00:28:39
Feb 7, 2018 9:0 AM
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Love and Science

The world's top student scientists converge at the Olympics of science fairs.

00:20:27
Jan 17, 2018 3:0 PM
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Ministry of Presence

How a minister who made the execution chamber his office changed his mind about the death penalty.

00:28:55
Nov 8, 2017 9:0 AM
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A Spark in His Eye

Brimstone and Glory is a fiery trip into a Mexican city's glorious orgy of fireworks.

00:17:24
Oct 25, 2017 9:0 AM
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The Hands of Persons Unknown

Looking at one of America's greatest shames.

[EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]

00:16:20
Oct 11, 2017 9:0 AM
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The Lost Tapes

What could documentaries about Princess Diana and the 1992 Los Angeles riots possibly have in common?  

00:18:55
Sep 13, 2017 9:0 AM
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Dominion

A deep dive into big game hunting -- a world most of us have very strong feelings about...but really know very little.

00:15:25
Aug 30, 2017 9:0 AM
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Inside Voice

A young singer-songwriter's voice starts out sounding like a girl, ends up sounding like a man...and he finds his true voice along the way.[EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]

00:18:00
Aug 16, 2017 9:0 AM
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Eating Diane

When exotic food writer Eddie Lin asked his pregnant wife if she'd consider letting him eat her placenta, she said, "no way". But she asked him when their second child came along...and Eddie had to figure out how to cook it.

00:18:54
Aug 2, 2017 9:0 AM
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Psychedelic Misery

A cinematographer's bad trip coincides with the death of the '60s. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]

00:25:55
Jul 19, 2017 9:0 AM
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Baby Steps

A documentary filmmaker's five-year trip down the rabbit hole of in vitro fertilization. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]

00:21:52
Jul 5, 2017 12:0 PM
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