A friend and colleague pays tribute to the late cinematographer and director who worked on Gimme Shelter, Harlan County, USA, and more
Docs about Labor
American Factory co-director Steven Bognar talks to Barbara Kopple about her seminal labor docs— Harlan County, USA and American Dream— and organizing
Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig on why he prioritized the personal over the political in his Mongolian mining doc, Colors of White Rock
Želimir Žilnik discusses six decades of work from his early films to Eighty Plus , and their piercing, political critiques of Yugoslavia and modern
In this interview, Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana talks about his focus on Guatemalan grooms in his Independent Lens doc, Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse
Watch a clip from Yael Bridge’s sophomore feature, which chronicles the on-the-ground organizing of the 2023 UPS Teamsters contract fight
Newly restored documentaries from the 1950s–1980s reveal how Caribbean filmmakers forged a liberation cinema and why its practices matter now
DOK Leipzig 2025: Doc Together, ‘The Thing to Be Done,’ ‘Elephants & Squirrels,’ and ‘A Scary Movie’
The world’s oldest documentary festival continues its commitment to an equitable world, from supporting exiled filmmakers to its programming
In this interview, Srđan Kovačević discusses his Ljubljana-set observational documentary, The Thing to Be Done, about an office fighting for workers’
Working with over 1,000 hours of archival footage, Ian Bell and Alex Megaro connect their record of Seattle’s 1999 mass protests, WTO/99, with present