Docs about Politics

Picture this: A gregarious, glad-handing Irish pol finds himself in front of a skeptical class of well off, unsmiling high school students. Asked to

Entertainment companies reeled in films and canceled dramatic shows that might remind people of the horrors of September 11, while channels that

During the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African continent, and the Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of

About seven years ago, I saw an article in the Los Angeles Times about a “forgotten colony” of American Civil War-era Confederates in the town of

On September 11 and the days that followed, New York-based documentary filmmakers responded in different ways—some recorded what they saw on video

“It would appear that in the entire history of Soviet art, no sector has made such a phenomenal leap in quality as the documentary cinema," wrote

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality." - Dante Alighieri BBC's chief of

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