Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight on POV, Viktor Jakovleski's Brimstone & Glory captures the days leading up to the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico—the preparation, the revelry and, of course, the dazzling explosions. Plunging headlong into the fire, Brimstone & Glory, which earned an IDA Creative Recognition Award for Best Music for composer Benh Zeitlin, honors the spirit of Tultepec's community and celebrates celebration itself. Also premiering tonight, on Starz
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight on HBO, HBO Go and HBO Now, Don Argott's Believer follows Mormon Dan Reynolds, frontman for the Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons, as he takes on a new mission to explore how the Mormon Church treats its LGBTQ members. With the rising suicide rate among teens in the state of Utah, Reynolds' concern with the church's policies sends him on an unexpected path of acceptance and change. Also premiering tonight, on PBS' POV, Hyewon Lee's Singing with
Airing tonight on HBO, with an encore airing June 20 in conjunction with World Refugee Day, It Will Be Chaos, from directors Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo, sheds an important light on the refugee crisis facing Europe, the US and the world today. Life in Southern Italy is thrown into a tailspin when refugees arrive by the thousands and the locals are left to fend for themselves. Aregai, an Eritrean refugee who survives a major shipwreck off the shores of Lampedusa, is trapped in the Italian faltering immigration system and goes underground to reach Northern Europe. Through his journey
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming on Kanopy is Deborah S. Esquenazi's Southwest of Salem, which excavates the nightmarish persecution of four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The film earned a Peabody Award, a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Documentary and a Critics' Choice Award for Best First Feature. Synopsis courtesy of Kanopy In Lars von Trier's 2005 documentary, The Five Obstructions, currently streaming on FilmStruck, he challenges his mentor
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering June 5 on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play is Jeffrey Schwartz's The Fabulous Allan Carr, a project of IDA's Fiscal Sponsorship Program. The film tells the story of dynamo Hollywood impresario Allan Carr—producer, marketing genius, and host of the wildest, most Babylonian parties LA has ever seen. Premiering June 11 on World Channel's Local, USA series is Dan Habib's IDA Award-nominated short, Mr. Connolly Has ALS. As a life-long educator, high school principal Gene
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming on HBO On Demand, HBO Now and HBO Go is John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, from Emmy-winning director Peter Kunhardt. The film profiles the six-tern Arizona senator, an influential force in modern American politics, as he reflects on his life and career and reckons with his battle with brain cancer. Airing May 29 on PBS' American Experience, and streaming on PBS.org, The Chinese Exclusion Act, directed by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu and co-produced by the Center for
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Airing on Independent Lens tonight, Jamie Meltzer's True Conviction, an IDA DocuClub alum, tells the story of three exonerated men, with decades of prison time among them, who launched a detective agency to help free wrongly convicted inmates and try to fix the criminal justice system. Streaming on The Orchard/Vimeo on Demand, Dominic Gill's Coming to my Senses documents former Motocross athlete Aaron Baker's struggle to regain movement after breaking his neck in a Motocross
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering this week on Starz and Starz On Demand, Paige Goldberg Tolmach's What Haunts Us investigates the story of the 1979 class of Porter Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina. Within the last 35 years, six of the graduating class of 49 boys have died by suicide. Tolmach herself, a graduate of Porter Guad School, takes a deep dive into her past in order to uncover the surprising truth and finally release the ghosts that haunt her hometown to this day. In Random Acts
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In commemoration of Mental Health Month, Liz Garbus' A Dangerous Son premieres on HBO tonight, May 7, and will be streaming on HBO Now through the month. This film tells the stories of children who are suffering with serious mental illness and the parents who desperately try to obtain treatment before they harm themselves or others, in the face of limited resources and support. No Man’s Land, from David Byars, airs May 7 on Independent Lens and streams on PBS.org
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering on Netflix Friday, May 4 is Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's End Game. Facing an inevitable outcome, terminally ill patients meet extraordinary medical practitioners seeking to change our approach to life and death. Premiering on PBS Friday, May 4 is The Jazz Ambassadors. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their racially diverse band