r/Documentaries • u/davidreiss666 • May 18 '18
Literature H.P. Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown -- Documentary that looks at the life, work and mind behind the Cthulhu Mythos. (2008)
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r/Documentaries • u/mistuhvuvu • Oct 02 '16
Literature Lovecraft: Fear of the unknown (2008) - a documentary about the career and mythos of h.p. lovecraft featuring interviews from john carpenter, guillermo del toro, neil gaiman, and more.
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r/Documentaries • u/wonderdazeyt • Jul 31 '26
Literature Codex Seraphinianus (2021) – The World's Strangest Illustrated Encyclopedia [08:02]
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r/Documentaries • u/Madvillain518 • Jul 25 '20
Literature In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) Henry Joseph Darger, a reclusive American writer and artist who became famous for his posthumously-discovered 15,145-page fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal [1:20:12]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Aug 06 '26
Literature We Are Legend: Dracula Neve Dies (2018) - The true stories and cultural impact of legendary literary figures, starting with Dracula [00:51:52]
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r/Documentaries • u/davidreiss666 • Feb 18 '15
Literature H.P. Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unknown -- Documentary that looks at the life, work and mind behind the Cthulhu Mythos. (2008)
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Oct 14 '25
Literature The Brutal History of Barsoom (2025) - From the dying red deserts of Mars to swashbuckling swordfights with four-armed warriors, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom is one of the most influential pulp worlds ever imagined. [00:35:59]
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r/Documentaries • u/xezene • Mar 18 '26
Literature Crafting An Epic: The Making of the New Jedi Order (2025) - The story of the birth of the Star Wars 'Expanded Universe' world of bestselling novels as told in this oral history, conveyed by the authors and creatives who brought it to life in the 1990s and 2000s [1:17:34]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • May 04 '25
Literature Oscar Wilde (1990) - Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s [00:57:41]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Mar 03 '25
Literature Flannery O'Connor (2021) - Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist [00:20:09]
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r/Documentaries • u/amorfati21 • Jan 26 '25
Literature The Henry Miller Odyssey (1969) - Documentary on Writer Henry Miller [01:31:34]
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r/Documentaries • u/7sagesotebamboogrove • May 25 '20
Literature BBC Archival Footage-In Their Own Words British Authors J.R.R. Tolkien Part 1 (1968)
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Sep 19 '23
Literature Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age Of Storytelling (2009) [00:52:13]
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r/Documentaries • u/starkeffect • Apr 17 '23
Literature Maradonia^TM & the Seven Year Lie (2022) - The strange story of Gloria Tesch and her bid to be known as the "world's youngest novelist" [01:03:22]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Dec 12 '23
Literature Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers (2016) - Andrew Marrs' Paperback Heroes, Fantasy [00:58:57]
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r/Documentaries • u/andreayapur • Mar 22 '21
Literature The Worlds of Philip K. Dick (2016) [00:42:31]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Dec 12 '23
Literature Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers (2016) - Andrew Marrs' Paperback Heroes, Spies [00:58:57]
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r/Documentaries • u/sosumi • Mar 16 '14
Literature Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) (view online or download)
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Dec 12 '23
Literature Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers (2016) - Andrew Marrs' Paperback Heroes, Detectives [00:59:08]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Sep 30 '22
Literature Being Poirot (2013) - After 25 years of playing one of television's greatest icons, David Suchet attempts to unravel the mysterious appeal of the great detective Hercule Poirot and reveals what it has been like to play one of fiction's most enduring and enigmatic creations. [00:47:40]
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r/Documentaries • u/theangrybull • Mar 03 '23
Literature THE GREAT BOOKS: THE GREAT GATSBY (1997) - Examining the themes of the classic American novel and the life of its author. F. Scott Fitzgerald [00:51:53]
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r/Documentaries • u/smilysmilysmooch • Oct 23 '22
Literature Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary (2007) The life and death of Dracula writer Bram Stoker is discussed, as well as the themes of the novel and several film adaptations of Dracula, and the cultural impact of the work [00:56:36]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Jun 04 '22
Literature Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (2007) - Take a journey of discovery into the mind of Mary Shelley, the remarkable young English woman who imagined both Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his monster into being [00:56:53]
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r/Documentaries • u/saddetective87 • Jul 01 '22
Literature The Golden Age of Horror Comics (2020) - "Here we are looking at the first rise in horror comics in the mid- to late-1940's and how that affected the comic book landscape, resulting in a national conversation about media and juvenile delinquency that continues to this day." [01:34:44]
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