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Film and video have carried the photographer's documentary art to new, more complex, and often controversial levels since 1925, when filmmaker Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North demonstrated the potential scope and detail that documentaries might aspire to. If still a rarity at the local multiplex, these essential must-have film and television documentaries engage and challenge us, raising questions of a gravity and relevance as real as life itself.

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