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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 20 on Independent Lens, Wrestle, from Suzannah Herbert and Lauren...
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around...
Filmmaker Pare Lorentz believed movies held enormous potential for social justice and education. In his 1936 film The Plow That Broke the Plains, Lorentz juxtaposes a tractor toiling across the Great...
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. What’s My Name: Muhammed Ali, from Antoine Fuqua and executive producers Lebron...
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around...
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Drawing on unprecedented access, Foster, from Academy Award-winning filmmakers...
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering May 3 on HBO, and streaming later on HBO GO and HBO Now, Erin Lee...
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around...
Editor’s Note: Filmmakers/partners Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert have been racking up the career kudos over the past few months, starting in December, when Reichert received the IDA Career...
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Filmed over three tumultuous years covering the lead up to, and aftermath of...