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There is no question that Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, her 1936 masterpiece of the Berlin Olympic Games, is the main reason I became a documentary

Dear Readers, In concert with IDA’s much-anticipated summertime event, we look back on the making of one of the great rock’n’roll docs, D.A

This report comes happily from the Cannes International Film Festival. Nothing I have ever seen explains the place of the documentary in film history

A review of 'John Grierson: Life, Contributions, Influence' by Jack C. Ellis

Over the past decade, film festivals have grown into a year-round festival industry, one that seems to have spread to every medium-sized US and

It all started with the ancient Greeks. Not the scholarly concept of the roots of western civilization, but the first program of Empires, the PBS and

Dear Readers, It is never an easy task to salute the passings, in each issue of ID, of so many dignified members of the documentary community. But

Dear IDA Members: The big news at the IDA is that we have a new Executive Director: Sandra Ruch. She was selected as the final candidate at a special

Lonely Boy stands alone, teetering on a precipice between everything that came before and everything that came after. When I first saw it in the late

With much regret, I write this farewell to Tim Lyons, dear friend and former editor of International Documentary. I was one of his writers