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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 26 on Independent Lens, An Honest Liar, from Tyler Measom...
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Erika Cohn’s The Judge, premiering November 19 on Independent Lens and streaming...
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: In celebration of National Native American Heritage Month, we invited Rebekka Herrera-Schlichting, now formerAssistant Director of one of our Organizational Members, Vision Maker Media...
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 12 on HBO and streaming through the month on HBO Now and HBO...
​ Veterans Day and Transgender Awareness Week fall at the same time each year. Despite recent setbacks and debate, over 15,000 transgender people actively serve in the United States military today. We...
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. Premiering November 8 on HBO, We Are Not Done Yet, from Sareen Hairabedian...
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...
With the 2018 midterms on the horizon, we've curated a list of campaign documentaries to get you in the spirit before casting your ballot on Election Day. And if you already voted early or absentee...