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I first saw Barry Alexander Brown and Glenn Silber's documentary The War at Home as a high school student in Minneapolis. Their portrayal of the anti

Dear IDA Community, Transition of any kind is an opportunity for reflection. In the space between two defined states, we are afforded a chance to take

Dear Readers, As we were going to press, the great Albert Maysles passed away at 88, culminating a rich and expansive life and even more so, a

In 2014, Northwestern University announced the launch of a new Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media, to be housed in the School of Communications

Every president since Lyndon B. Johnson has made curing cancer a cornerstone of their health-care initiatives. With each passing administration, the

Twelve years after making Spin (1995), the famous found-footage masterpiece created from pirated satellite feeds, Brian Springer released a dense

Filmmaker Les Blank, the recipient of the IDA’s 2011 Career Achievement Award, was nothing if not a man at peace with his obsessions. By turns a

Dear IDA Community: As many readers of Documentary magazine may have already heard, I left IDA at the end of 2014 to accept a new position with the

Dear Readers, You can call this issue GETTING REAL: The Sequel. Or, Beyond GETTING REAL. But we felt strongly that a groundbreaking conference—for the

Robert Kenner's stylish new documentary, Merchants of Doubt, is many things: an exposé of climate change debunkers; a clinical analysis of how