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Documentaries like The Celluloid Closet

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The 3 reasons people love The Celluloid Closet

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  1. You like seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens.

  2. You want actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight.

  3. You love classic Hollywood clips and the subtext between the lines.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Disclosure2020

    • seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens
    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight

    Good for you if you want trans people telling their own story of growing up with Hollywood.

  • Side by Side2012

    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight

    Good for you if you want to know how cinema changed when the cameras did.

  • Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream2006

    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight
    • classic Hollywood clips and the subtext between the lines

    Good for you if you love the cinema of the 1970s.

  • Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound2019

    • seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens

    Good for you if you like a tour of cinema history from the first talkies onward.

  • The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson2017

    • seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens
    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight

    Good for you if you want to know who Marsha P. Johnson was beyond the Stonewall legend.

  • The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing2004

    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight
    • classic Hollywood clips and the subtext between the lines

    Good for you if you like seeing how silent films and classics were put together.

  • I Am Not Your Negro2017

    • seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens
    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight

    Good for you if you want Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes.

  • Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1991

    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight

    Good for you if you like seeing how a famous film almost never got made.

  • The Times of Harvey Milk1984

    • seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens
    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight

    Good for you if you want the real Harvey Milk, in the footage of his time.

  • Pray Away2021

    • actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight

    Good for you if you want the true story of conversion therapy told by those who led it.

  • Hitchcock/Truffaut2015

    • seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens
    • classic Hollywood clips and the subtext between the lines

    Good for you if you love Hitchcock's classics and want to see them again.

  • 78/522017

    • seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens

    Good for you if you like learning how one scene from 1960 changed horror films.

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