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The past quarter-century in the documentary community.
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Huge storms pound the middle third of the United States. The Mississippi overflows its banks, flooding towns, killing and displacing people, destroying economies and ecosystems. The nation wonders what to do. A man, backed with respectable financing, steps forward to direct a powerful documentary that reveals the essence of this tragedy and brings it stingingly home to the public. The film is greeted with wide acclaim, compassionate outcry and no little shame about the fact that Americans have let this disaster happen to their land and to their own people. In 2006 it was Spike Lee and When the
The orange-and-black striped ball spins through the air, hovers uncertainly at the net, and in that seemingly endless instant, entire lives hang in the balance. Not just those of the young, uniformed men on the court, but of fathers and brothers who once dreamed of NBA stardom themselves, of mothers who send their sons out into dangerous streets each day and pray they will come home alive, and of coaches who burn with desire for conference titles and state championships. Indeed, no other movie has ever made us feel the agony and potential ecstasy of a single jump shot, or even a free throw, in
A profile of the 2008 Pioneer Award honoree Paula S. Apsell, executive producer of NOVA.
Alex Gibney's 'Taxi to the Dark Side' takes an unflinching look at the Bush administration's policy on torture.
South African filmmakers Arya Lalloo and Feizel Mamdoo reflect on the inaugural People to People International Documentary Conference, held in Johannesburg.
Ted Braun was the winner of the 2007 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.
'Banished' uncovers a buried chapter in American history--when, from reconstruction through the post-World War I era, African-American communities in the South were forced off their land and out of their homes.