April 4, 2017
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival opened in the Bush Administration and concluded in the Obama Administration. Eight years later, Sundance straddled
Docs about Politics
March 30, 2017
CAAMFest 17 , which ran March 9-19 in the San Francisco Bay Area, looked back at some of the most powerful documentaries created by Asian Americans.
March 7, 2017
The opening of Evgeny Afineevsky's Cries from Syria calls to mind a small, sad poem by the late Bill Knott: The only response to a child's grave is
January 18, 2017
By Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker and Paul Stekler Since the election of Donald Trump as president and the triumph of conservative Republicanism in
January 17, 2017
In October 2010, I attended a screening of Primary at the Paley Center in New York, followed by a conversation with filmmakers Robert Drew, Richard
September 23, 2016
https://www.documentary.org/sites/default/files/images/articles/perfectc..."> Editor's Note: At the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival last
May 18, 2016
"Man is by nature a political animal," Aristotle famously wrote, but in reality, it takes a special breed of man to be a politician. This is quite
February 2, 2016
Editor's note: Over the next few weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the films that have been honored by the Academy of Motion
February 23, 2015
Robert Kenner's stylish new documentary, Merchants of Doubt , is many things: an exposé of climate change debunkers; a clinical analysis of how
June 23, 2014
'The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz' opens June 26 in Los Angeles , and June 27 in New York and other major cities.