January 18, 2021
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history” —Martin Luther King Jr. MLK/FBI , currently streaming via IFC Films, is director Sam Pollard’s
History Docs
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July 22, 2019In 1934, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old African-American farm worker was accused of the rape and murder of a young white woman. Eight days later he was
July 16, 2019“Eagle, Houston. You are go for landing, over.” With this command, issued by Mission Control Center on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts were
June 24, 2019Long before marriage equality, non-binary gender identity, and the flood of new documentaries commemorating this month’s 50th anniversary of the
May 11, 2019Filmed over seven years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Francisco Franco as
May 4, 2019Over the span of a few weeks, Werner Herzog will have had three films released. There is the world premiere of a feature film at Cannes, Family
February 15, 2019In his third Academy Award-nominated film, Marshall Curry delivers a striking variation on his previous nominees, Street Fight and If a Tree Falls .
January 16, 2018When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her
January 8, 2018Since American Experience debuted in October 1988, a guiding principle of the PBS series has been a belief that history matters. History can help us
June 5, 2017Letters from Baghdad , a new feature-length historical documentary that is coming to US theaters on June 2, chronicles the story of a woman who