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A Black woman with short curly hair stands in front of a red background, bare-shouldered and staring at the camera. From Juliana Kasumu’s Baby Bangz: Black Power in Hair.
Screen Time: Week of August 8, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Frontline’s Afghanistan Undercover, which exposes the reality of women living...
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Kirsten Kleist Petersen is a young woman wearing a gray shirt. She is sitting on a chair by a window and petting her cat. From Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog’s ‘Winter’s Yearning.’ Courtesy of 'POV.'
Screen Time: Week of August 1, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel’s feature documentary Shadow Game shares the...
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Virtual reality avatars DragonHeart, IsYourBoi, DustBunny, Toaster and Jenny sit together on a long wooden bench. From Joe Hunting’s ‘We Met in Virtual Reality.’ Courtesy of HBO.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of July 25, 2022
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary...
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Maryanne Amacher is a white American composer and installation artist. She is wearing a gray jumpsuit and working in a room with musical equipment. From Lisa Rovner’s ‘Sisters with Transistors.’ Courtesy of Metrograph.
Screen Time: Week of July 25, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Mark Moormann’s documentary The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's...
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Teenagers living with disabilities enjoying their afternoon out on a field at Camp Jened. From James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham's 'Crip Camp.' Courtesy of Netflix.
Screen Time: Week of July 18 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home.
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An Asian man, wearing a protective hood and mask, holds his newborn baby. From Yung Chang's 'Wuhan Wuhan." Courtesy of Stars Collective Films Entertainment Group, Inc.
Screen Time: Week of July 11, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Kicking off POV’s 35th Season is Yung Chang’s Wuhan Wuhan, which premieres July...
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Daniel is a Black male sitting on a brown couch in his apartment in Cicero, IL. He is wearing a gray sweatshirt and brown pants. From Margaret Byrne’s ‘Any Given Day.’ Photo by Margaret Byrne.
Screen Time: Week of July 4 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. July is BIPOC Mental Health Month, and it provokes us to have a conversation...
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An archival black-and-white photo from the sets of SOUL!, the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show on public television. From Melissa Haizlip's 'Mr Soul!'. Courtesy of PBS.
Essential Doc Reads: Week of June 27, 2022
Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy!
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A black-and-white image of the members of the underground network of abortion providers, the Janes, from August 1972. Image from Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin’s ‘The Janes.’ Courtesy of HBO.
Screen Time: Week of June 27 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. It’s been a hard week to fish out hope, to feel like there is a future that...
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BeBe Zahara Benet is a Black drag queen preparing for a show in her dressing room in Minneapolis. She is wearing a very large brown wig and false eyelashes, while looking into a mirror. From Emily Branham’s ‘Being BeBe.’ Courtesy of the filmmaker.
Doc Star of the Month: Marshall Ngwa aka BeBe Zahara Benet, 'Being BeBe'
World-premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Festival, Emily Branham’s Being BeBe is a revealing walk (uh, sashay) down memory lane with the titular BeBe Zahara Benet, the very first winner of RuPaul’s Drag...
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