January 17, 2017
For the past several years, America has witnessed almost daily incidents of unarmed black men and women being killed by the police—and these
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June 10, 2016Twenty years seems to be the appropriate time frame for historical events to transform into history, and for historians, pundits, journalists and we
August 20, 2015We might not consider it much, but the documentary form has always been ripe for parody. Look as far back as Rob Reiner's seminal This Is Spinal Tap
April 23, 2015Independent Lens and POV to stay on Mondays at 10pm On the tail of a several-month, multi-city listening tour during which leaders from PBS, ITVS,
March 25, 2015Every president since Lyndon B. Johnson has made curing cancer a cornerstone of their health-care initiatives. With each passing administration, the
February 23, 2015Last spring, Al Jazeera America announced a partnership with Chicago-based Kartemquin Films ( The Interrupters , The New Americans ) on a six-part
August 5, 2014'Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart' airs August 18 on HBO.
June 23, 2014 @With the recent explosion of non-fiction series, what opportunities do they represent for documentary filmmakers? Do these programs signal the latest evolution in the documentary form?
Anne Thompson of Indiewire's "Thompson on Hollywood" moderates a fascinating peek...
May 27, 2014http://www.documentary.org/images/magazine/2003/UltimateExplorer_Dez2003..." style="width: 647px; height: 411px;"> One of the longest running
April 22, 2014China's documentary television sector has travelled light years in a decade. This boom is driven by China's vast-scale, rocketing economic growth,