Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Netflix is Jenner Furst's Time: The Kalief Browder Story, a series tracing the tragic case of a Bronx teen who spent three horrific years in jail, despite never being convicted of a crime. Premiering September 22 on Filmstruck is Errol Morris's Tabloid, which acquaints viewers with the eccentric woman at the center of the Mormon-sex-in-chains case, a story that lit up British papers in the seventies. The New York Times called it "astonishing." New to Amazon
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, September 11 on POV is Jin Mo-young's My Love, Don't Cross That River, which captures the twilight days of a South Korean couple that has been married for 76 years. The Los Angeles Times calls it a "moving tribute to the beauties and mysteries of life and death." Premiering Wednesday, September 13 on KCET and KCET's website is City Rising, which looks at the history of discriminatory housing laws and analyzes six California communities undergoing
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Currently streaming on Netflix is James Keach's Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, a chronicle of the recently departed country music icon, who embarked on a farewell tour after receiving an Alzheimer's diagnosis. The Washington Post calls the film "important and triumphant." Premiering September 8 on Filmstruck is Barbet Schroeder's General Idi Amin Dada, in which the filmmaker turns his cameras on the infamous tyrant, revealing the dynamic, charming, and appallingly dangerous man
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tomorrow, Tuesday, August 29 on OWN is Black Love, which highlights love stories from the black community and seeks to answer the burning question, What is the secret to making a marriage work? Premiering September 6 on Topic.com is Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry's Death In The Terminal, which presents a real-time account of a 2015 terrorist attack that took place in a bus terminal in Beersheba, Israel. The documentary won top prizes at the International Documentary
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Netflix is Michal Marczak's All These Sleepless Nights, a fiction/nonfiction hybrid in which two classmates roam the streets of Warsaw on a beat-fueled quest for self-discovery. IndieWire calls it an "unclassifiable wonder [that] obscures the divide between fiction and documentary until the distinction is ultimately irrelevant." Currently streaming on Fandor is Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made in America, which captures the late jazz composer Ornette Coleman's
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Starting tonight, Monday, August 14, POV will be streaming Whitney Dow and Marco Williams' Two Towns of Jasper, the 2003 film about a modern-day lynching. Two film crews, one black and one white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder of James Byrd, Jr. by following the subsequent trials of the local men charged with the crime. Currently streaming on Netflix is Kasper Collin's I Called Him Morgan, an exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, August 7 on HBO and HBO Go is Lisanne Skyler's Brillo Box (3¢ Off), following the journey of an iconic Andy Warhol sculpture owned by the filmmaker's parents. The Los Angeles Times calls it "a simple tale of serendipity — of a sculpture that broke an auction record." Streaming beginning Tuesday, August 8 on Filmstruck is Chris Marker's Sunday in Peking, in which the French filmmaker meditates on his experiences traveling through China's capital
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, July 31 on POV (and streaming at POV's website) is Cecilia Aldarondo's Memories of a Penitent Heart, an investigation into the life of the filmmaker's uncle, who died of AIDS-related complications in the Eighties. The Village Voice calls it "exceptional" and "profoundly affecting." Available on DVD vua Kino Lorber and all streaming platforms beginning August 1 is Vanessa Gould's Obit, a documentary about the obituary team at The New York Times. NPR
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, July 24 on POV is Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen's Oscar-nominated short Joe's Violin, in which a donated instrument forges an improbable friendship. Huffington Post calls it "a powerful testament to our potential as human beings to have a lasting impact for good." Available to stream this week at Le Cinema Club is Albert and David Maysles' 1966 doc Meet Marlon Brando. The New Yorker's Richard Brody calls it "rare and essential." Streaming
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering Saturday, July 22 on Showtime is Laura Poitras' RISK, which chronicles the complex relationship between the filmmaker and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Time Out calls it "A jaw-dropping profile of one man's battle with world governments, common decency and his own out-of-control ego." Premiering tonight, Monday, July 17 on POV is Ido Haar's Presenting Princess Shaw, the story of an aspiring musician who inspired an internationally famous video artist to create