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While many documentary makers struggle to create the illusion of objectivity in their films, Ross McElwee has celebrated the inevitable subjectivity

Almost every review I've seen of Stephanie Black's exceptionally moving 70- minute film concerning the labor abuses suffered by Jamaican men brought

Jean-Pierre Gorin believes that "there is only one thing to do with the sophist, and that is to beat the shit out of him." Those who know Jean—Pierre

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, best known as the man who first revealed the beauty and extraordinary life of the undersea world, is also a pioneering

Several years back, Lee Grant, Barbara Kopple and Claudia Weill were guest speakers at a dinner meeting of the New York chapter of the Academy of

In his 1958 film Lettre de Siberie Chris Marker announced "I write to you from a far-off country" and in his films since then the inveterate wanderer

Djinguereber Mosque, Timbuktu. 'There is a people called the Mericans ?' he asked. 'There is.' 'They say they have visited the Moon.' 'They have.'

Let me begin by stating the obvious: images in U.S. media—not just images of Black people, but all images—are highly influenced by the political

Marcel Ophuls' moral passion and cinematic methods have been renovating documentary film for over 20 years. From the re­nowned The Sorrow and the Pity

Bruce Weber's latest film, Let's Get Lost , documents the low-life style of Chet Baker from young trumpet god of 1953 to the time-ravaged jazz foot