Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday February 12 on HBO is Rebecca Cammisa's Atomic Homefront, which probes the devastating impact of the illegal dumping of radioactive waste in North St. Louis communities, and the moms-turned-advocates fighting for answers. Premiering tonight on POV is Craig Atkinson's Do Not Resist, a vital and influential exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. The film won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 2016 Tribeca
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Monday, February 5 is TCM's Day of Documentaries, devoted to docs that won or were nominated for Academy Awards. Set your DVRs! Screening at 8pm is Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth, a look at former Vice President Al Gore's commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming and inspire actions to prevent it. The film won the 2006 Oscar for Best Documentary, and is also streaming for free on VUDU. Screening at 9:45pm is Rob Epstein's The
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming at Hulu is Neil Berkeley's Gilbert, a poignant portrait of one of comedy's most iconic figures, Gilbert Gottfried. Premiering tonight, Monday, January 29 on HBO is Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio's May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, which follows the popular Americana band as they record their album True Sadness. Premiering tonight on Independent Lens is Nanfu Wang's I Am Another You, in which the filmmaker explores the meaning of persona freedom
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, January 22 on Independent Lens is Peter Nicks' The Force, which presents a fly-on-the-wall look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, Missouri, and an explosive sex scandal. Premiering Friday, January 26 on Netflix is Dirty Money, an investigative series that exposes blatant acts of corporate greed and corruption. Episode
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Independent Lens is Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated and IDA Award-winning I Am Not Your Negro, which envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Premiering Friday, January 19 on American Masters is Tracy Heather Strain's Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, the first in-depth presentation of the Raisin in the Sun author's complex
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, January 8 on HBO is Francis Whately's David Bowie: The Last Five Years. In the last years of his life, David Bowie ended nearly a decade of silence to engage in an extraordinary burst of activity, producing two groundbreaking albums and a musical. This new documentary explores this unexpected end to a remarkable career. Premiering tonight, Monday, January 8, on Independent Lens (and then streaming on Netflix) is Jennifer Brea's Unrest, a powerful
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Independent Lens is Jennifer M. Kroot's The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin. The film examines the life and work of one of the world's most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels have inspired millions to claim their own truth. Premiering Friday, January 5 on Netflix is the original docuseries Rotten, which travels deep into the heart of the food supply chain to reveal
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, December 18 on Independent Lens is Jessie Auritt's Supergirl, about an Orthodox Jewish girl from New Jersey who broke a world powerlifting record at the age of ten. This intimate portrait follows her unique coming-of-age story as she fights to hold on to her title while navigating the perils of adolescence — from strict religious obligations to cyberbullying to health issues that could jeopardize her future in powerlifting. Premiering tomorrow, December 19
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Filmstruck is Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time, which pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s - 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory. The film won an IDA Documentary Award for Best Editing. Currently streaming on MUBI is Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol. After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, December 4 on HBO is The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee. As one of America's most influential and celebrated newspaper editors, The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee found himself at the center of many of the 20th Century's most seismic storms, including: World War II, John F. Kennedy and, most memorably, Watergate and the fall of Richard Nixon. Currently streaming on Netflix is Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker's Karl Marx City, in