November 5, 2021 Doc Star of the Month: Al Victory, 'Attica' Fifty years ago, an uprising at a prison facility in upstate New York changed the course of history. And yet today the word "Attica" might more Read more
September 27, 2021 Documentaries to Listen to for International Podcast Day: Recounting History International Podcast Day is just around the corner! With more and more people tuning in to podcasts every year—especially as COVID-19 has kept us Read more
January 18, 2021 'MLK/FBI' Explores the Complexities of the Civil Rights Icon “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 Read more
July 22, 2019 'The Changing Same' Takes on the Legacy of Lynching In 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 Read more
July 16, 2019 A Giant Leap for Mankind: Two Docs Salute the Lunar Landing “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 Read more
June 24, 2019 'Before Stonewall' Tracks the Pre-Movement Era Long before marriage equality, non-binary gender identity, and the flood of new documentaries commemorating this month’s 50th anniversary of the Read more
May 11, 2019 Remembering the Pact of Forgetting: 'The Silence of Others' Rewrites the History of the Franco Regime Filmed over seven years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Francisco Franco as Read more
May 4, 2019 'Meeting Gorbachev': Werner Herzog Seeks the Heart and Soul of Russia Over 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 Read more
February 15, 2019 'A Night at the Garden': Where Past Meets Present In his third Academy Award-nominated film, Marshall Curry delivers a striking variation on his previous nominees, Street Fight and If a Tree Falls . Read more
January 16, 2018 Young, Gifted and Black: A New Documentary Celebrates the Writer/Activist Lorraine Hansberry When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her Read more