May 4, 2017
"This exciting game is filled with betrayal, alliances, and surprise attacks. On the battlefield, anything goes! …. The player who completes his or
Docs about Politics
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April 27, 2017Editor's Note: This article comes to us courtesy of the Center for Asian American Media ( CAAM ). Filmmaker Grace Lee uses the medium of documentary
April 26, 2017As a documentary filmmaker, I see film as a powerful tool for viscerally connecting audiences with subjects, empowering the voiceless, and immersing
April 4, 2017The 2009 Sundance Film Festival opened in the Bush Administration and concluded in the Obama Administration. Eight years later, Sundance straddled
March 7, 2017The 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, 2017By Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker and Paul Stekler Since the election of Donald Trump as president and the triumph of conservative Republicanism in
January 17, 2017In 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, 2016https://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, 2016Editor'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