TORONTO (Reuters) - Death row, Sarah Palin, and wannabe Vulcans are some of the topics audiences can explore this year through the Toronto International Film Festival's documentary line up, announced on Wednesday.
The 10-day festival opens on September 8 and includes world premier documentaries by Werner Herzog, Nick Broomfield, Morgan Spurlock and Jessica Yu.
TIFF organizers said last week that "From the Sky Down," a documentary on Irish rockers U2 by Davis Guggenheim, who directed Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth," would be the festival's first nonfiction debut night movie in its 36-year history.
The films announced on Wednesday include "a wide range of memorable characters -- crusaders, convicts, artists, athletes, nude dancers, comic book fans, dog lovers and more," said Thom Powers, TIFF's lead programer for documentaries.
Herzog, whose previous documentaries include "Grizzly Man," and "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," probes a triple homicide in Texas and the 28-year-old death row inmate scheduled to die within eight days of appearing on-screen in "Into the Abyss."
In "Sarah Palin - You Betcha!", Broomfield and Joan Churchill head to Wasilla, Alaska, which TIFF says "makes Twin Peaks look like a walk in the park," to look for insight from Palin's family, friends and colleagues as to what makes the ex-hockey mom turned politician tick.
Spurlock follows fans to San Diego's Comic-C
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