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Boots-on-the-ground doc “Angels are Made of Light” provides an intimate and anguished portrait of school children struggling to survive in Kabul
Source: Variety Life strives to grow and flourish amid catastrophic ruins in “Angels Are Made of Light," James Longley’s stirring and gorgeous documentary about young students and teachers trying to maintain hope in Kabul, Afghanistan. As with his prior “Iraq in...
The Atlantic Selects: “Mothers and Meth”
Source: The Atlantic In the United States, methamphetamine is making a comeback. Following the legalization of medical marijuana in California, Mexican cartels pivoted to the production of pure liquid meth, which is brought across the border and crystallized in...
Victor Kossakovsky’s “Aquarela” captures the raw power of water
Source: Variety In titling “Aquarela,” his latest grandiose, sense-pummelling documentary ride, one has to wonder if iconoclastic Russian director Victor Kossakovsky was the tiniest bit annoyed that a certain awards juggernaut from last year’s Venice Film Festival...
New HBO documentary “Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age” will make you rethink how you use dating apps
Source: Bustle It wasn't that long ago when online dating was considered strange. Less than a decade ago, the prevalent stereotype attached to online dating was that it was only for socially awkward nerds who were unable to meet people in real life, or for possible...
Steve James tackles race and class issues in ten-part docuseries “America to Me”
Source: Los Angeles Times Some documentary film makers are adept at addressing the structural forces that govern society, and others are skilled at emotional, character-driven storytelling, but few do both simultaneously with the richness and precision of Steve...
Ten must-see documentaries screening at the Toronto International Film Festival 2018
Source: NOW Graves Without a Name - Part personal film, part eulogy to the victims of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal rule in Cambodia, Rithy Panh’s latest is sure to be one of the more emotional films playing at the Toronto International Film Festival. The director used...
13 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see
Source: Mental Floss What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964) - A singular piece of filmmaking where nonfiction talent met transcendent musical genius on the threshold of gargantuan stardom, this is the best Beatles documentary ever produced. Directed by...
In Sicily, a plague of cancer overwhelms an oil refinery town
Source: Yale Environment 360 The winner of the 2018 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest, “Venerable Augusta,” examines how the people of Augusta, Sicily, led by the town’s priest, are fighting back against a cancer epidemic linked to a massive petrochemical complex....
How documentaries became the hottest genre of the summer
Source: TIME Ah, summer! The season of superhero blockbusters and exhilarating action movies - enterprises that demand little more of us than shutting down some of our brain power and sinking into cushy stadium seats. But the summer of 2018 has put a wrinkle in that...
Ed Sheeran shows you how he makes music in “Songwriter”
Source: Los Angeles Times Unlike sausage, music — at least that of pop giant Ed Sheeran — does improve when you know how it’s made. The documentary “Songwriter” travels with the musician as he creates his most recent album, “Divide,” writing and recording future hits...
An Anthony Bourdain documentary is coming to a movie theater near you.
Source: Fortune Anthony Bourdain’s life will be coming to movie theaters. CNN confirmed to Vanity Fair last week that it’s collaborating with Zero Point Zero, the production company behind Bourdain’s wildly popular shows, to create “the definitive Bourdain feature...
“Crime + Punishment” examines the damage caused by policing quotas
Source: The Washingston Post The documentary “Crime + Punishment,” through a combination of sobering statistics and lively characters who bring those statistics to vivid life, tracks the progress of a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of 12 New York City police...
“Minding the Gap” is an astonishing film about American life
Source: The New York Times They grew up together in Rockford, Illinois, three boys united by their love of skateboarding. At a certain point — around middle school, it seems — one of them, Bing Liu, began videotaping their exploits. A pleasure of “Minding the...
Michael Moore calls Donald Trump the last President of the United States in “Fahrenheit 11/9” trailer
Source: Variety Michael Moore has released the first trailer for his upcoming documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9.” The trailer shows Moore spraying Flint water into the front yard behind Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s gated driveway, and Moore speaking with David Hogg,...
RTE’s exceptional documentary on the life of John Hume premiered on Irish TV this week
Source: JOE Following its big screen premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2017 and a theatrical release in November that same year, "In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America" premiered on Irish TV this week. The documentary follows the life of the Nobel Peace...
“John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection” captures the volatile tennis star in stunning 16 mm
Source: IndieWire Before John McEnroe exploded onto the tennis scene, tennis players were expected to comport themselves with the utmost civility. But the American firebrand was a champion whose skills were overshadowed by an electric volatility and penchant for...
Everything you need to know about Netflix’s new true crime series “I Am a Killer”
Source: Decider If you love or are weirdly fascinated by graphic documentaries about murder, then Netflix has you covered. But the streaming service’s latest true crime installment isn’t about wrongly accused convicts, like "Making a Murderer" and "The Confession...
Trailer: The Fight to Reunify Separated Families
Source: The Atlantic One month ago, Anita and her five-year-old son, Jenri, were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. “I haven’t talked to him—I know nothing about my son,” says Anita in the trailer for an upcoming Atlantic original documentary. “This whole thing is...
Netflix’s “Dark Tourist” explores the world’s most morbid travel destinations
Source: The Daily Beast Television is littered with travel shows about the many luxurious and cozy corners of the globe, but what it’s so far lacked is a program that transports viewers to the most dangerous, off-limits, and inappropriate sites and scenes the world...
Lauren Greenfield’s “Generation Wealth” makes the case for a civilization in decline
Source: Bloomberg For 25 years, photographer Lauren Greenfield has chronicled the ascendance of a global elite: here, a picture of French aristocrats sitting beneath ancient tapestries; there, movie executives flashing $100 bills in St. Barts. Once, she took a...