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Documentary filmmakers who use archival materials fall into two basic categories: those who are savvy about rights clearance issues and those who aren

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Film Archive The International Documentary Association is recognizing the extraordinary

WITNESS, the nonprofit human rights organization conceived by musician and activist Peter Gabriel to empower human rights defenders to use video for

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941. Photo: Anthology Film Archives" src="http://www.documentary.org/images/magazine/2005

The Lost Kennedy Home Movies takes audiences on an intimate, behind-the-scenes journey from the 1930s into the early 1960s with members of one of the

'These Amazing Shadows' premieres December 29 on PBS' 'Independent Lens.'

From Ballets Russes Ballets Russes is the Follies of dance documentaries. Like that landmark musical, Ballets Russes begins with a reunion of the