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Our television networks have made us familiar with documentaries that inform the public about techno­logical inventions. What is less common is the

Gary Crowdus has the bearing of New York's film intelligentsia, and the credentials to support it. A graduate of New York University's Institute of

If you are looking for documentary, there are worse places to go than Canada, where it is not a dirty word. This year, there were two good reasons to

British-born Nicholas Broomfield has been a part of some of the more interesting and controversial American and British documentaries of the past

Let me begin by stating the obvious: images in U.S. media—not just images of Black people, but all images—are highly influenced by the political

On January 17, 1989, Kodak introduced four extended range motion picture films at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and

Nina Rosenblum's Female High Security Unit looks like it will be one of 1989's most important examples of the investigative documentary form. The

Marcel Ophuls' moral passion and cinematic methods have been renovating documentary film for over 20 years. From the re­nowned The Sorrow and the Pity

When I read Nicholas Webster 's article "How Robert Flaherty Changed My Life" ( International Documentary Winter/Spring 1988), I vividly remembered

Bruce Weber's latest film, Let's Get Lost , documents the low-life style of Chet Baker from young trumpet god of 1953 to the time-ravaged jazz foot