By Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker and Paul Stekler Since the election of Donald Trump as president and the triumph of conservative Republicanism in
Docs about Politics
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In October 2010, I attended a screening of Primary at the Paley Center in New York, followed by a conversation with filmmakers Robert Drew, Richard
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A Perfect Candidate'. Courtesy of POV" src="https://www.documentary.org/sites/default/files/images/articles/perfectcandidate1.jpg"> Editor's Note: At
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"Man is by nature a political animal," Aristotle famously wrote, but in reality, it takes a special breed of man to be a politician. This is quite
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Editor's note: Over the next few weeks, we at IDA will be introducing our community to the films that have been honored by the Academy of Motion
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Robert Kenner's stylish new documentary, Merchants of Doubt, is many things: an exposé of climate change debunkers; a clinical analysis of how
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It's April, and the political season is in full swing as Americans explore the ideas, ethics and vision of a field of presidential hopefuls. For those
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When was the last time a documentary inspired Americans to throw 3,000 viewing parties for nearly 100,000 people, making $850,000 in the first three
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"What was so unusual for the Women's Movement and filmmakers like myself," says Liane Brandon, recalling a period when both were just starting out,
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By Belinda Baldwin and Robert Bahar It was during the height of America's post-war optimism when Richard Griffith, the American film historian who