Most of us find ourselves spending an unprecedented amount of time at home, and cities seem to have come to a standstill. However, thousands of individuals have been waking up and going to work...
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering May 1 as part of Oscilloscope Laboratories' virtual cinema initiative...

Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Rachel Mason's Circus of Books, a project of IDA's Fiscal Sponsorship Program...

In one of Pare Lorentz’s defining films, The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936), Lorentz illustrated the impact of destructive agricultural practices with striking imagery and an artistry that moved...

While the planet's human population reels from the devastating impact of the COVID -19 crisis, many have become aware of their immediate natural environment responding to the sudden drop in activity...

Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Gabor Kalman, one of the founding members of IDA and the creator of the IDA David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award, passed away on April 12. Gabor...

Get to know some of IDA's Fiscally-sponsored projects that are available to stream from the comfort of your home, on widely available platforms! We hope you'll continue to support bold, brave and...

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. To get to the bottom of the current mental health crisis in the US, psychiatrist...