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If you want to understand the industry, start here. This list spans the light and the dark, the comic and the tragic.

Most of us work white-collar jobs. We have no idea what it means to build a 50-foot animatronic shark or negotiate a rights deal for a Marvel character. These documentaries are travelogues to a bizarre, stressful, fascinating foreign country called "Show Business."