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“For Our Lives: Parkland” school shooting documentary to air on Freeform channel
Source: Deadline The Freeform channel and ABC News' Nightline program have teamed on "For Our Lives: Parkland," a documentary that follows the lives of student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida after the February 14 mass...
“The Exorcist” director’s new doc, “The Devil and Father Amorth,” films a real-life exorcism while considering the legacy of his horror classic
Source: The Atlantic "The Exorcist" is to exorcisms what "The Godfather" is to the Mafia. That is, the film is the font of every cliché about its subject and barely rooted in fact. Just as Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 mobster classic invented many of its gangland...
Two chilling documentaries are coming to Netflix to feed your true crime obsession
Source: Nylon As if true crime fans didn’t already have to watch, Netflix is adding two new shows to its roster. First up is three new installments of "The Staircase" which first aired on the Sundance Channel in 2004. It follows the story of author Michael Peterson...
“Howard” spotlights Oscar-Winning Disney lyricist Howard Ashman. Premieres April 22 at Tribeca Film Festival
Source: Deadline If you love a song from a classic Disney animated feature, it's likely that Howard Ashman was the mind behind the words. Don Hahn’s new documentary, "Howard" takes a look at the life of the Academy Award-winning lyricist and the legacy he left...
“The Last Days of Knight” is an unusual “30 for 30” entry on a different ESPN platform
Source: Newsday “The Last Days of Knight” is an unusual entry in ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary series on multiple levels, but the most unusual thing of all is where it initially will be shown. The film, which chronicles the journalistic quest that led to Bobby...
A Complete Guide to Netflix’s “Chef’s Table: Pastry”
Source: Eater Since its debut three years ago, David Gelb’s Netflix series, "Chef’s Table," has raised the bar considerably for food documentaries. The show’s hyper-cinematic style and emphasis on artistic virtuosity has helped the series earn two James Beard Awards...
How Tom Petty became the key to HBO’s “Elvis Presley: The Searcher”
Source: The Wrap HBO’s two-part documentary, “Elvis Presley: The Searcher,” covers lots of ground and talks to lots of people who were close to Elvis. But according to director Thom Zimny and producer Jon Landau, a key to the film came from one of the last people...
In “The Judge,” a Middle Eastern trailblazer upholds women’s rights
Source: The New York Times A conventional portrait of a highly unconventional woman, Erika Cohn’s documentary, “The Judge,” has a worthy subject in Kholoud al-Faqih, the first woman to be appointed, in 2009, to the Middle East’s religious courts. Dealing mainly with...
In “The Last Generation,” three children grapple with the possibility of seeing their homeland disappear within their lifetime due to climate change
Source: FRONTLINE The Marshall Islands, a low-lying island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is home to more than 50,000 people. About half of them are under 18. And if studies are right, rising seas caused by climate change could make their country...
“The Wall” analyzes the issues along the U.S.- Mexico border amid the immigration debate
Source: Detroit Free Press President Trump's call to build a wall along the southern border has sparked an intense debate over immigration and American identity. To better understand what the wall would mean, a team of USA TODAY Network journalists traveled along the...
“Hitler’s Hollywood” examines films produced in Nazi-era Germany
Source: The Hollywood Reporter Rudiger Suchsland's documentary, "Hitler's Hollywood," chronicling German cinema during the Nazi era has the perverse effect of making you want to watch many of the films under discussion. It's understandable considering the fascinating...
The Best Documentaries on HBO
Source: Digital Trends Beware the Slenderman - The internet is an incredible petri dish in which to observe the ways in which ideas and stories can spread and evolve, and Slender Man is one of the best examples. The Slender Man mythos crossed into the mainstream in a...
“The Heart of Nuba” profiles Tom Catena, the only doctor serving one million people living in the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan
Source: The Hollywood Reporter Saints don't always look the way you expect. Case in point: Dr. Tom Catena, the subject of Kenneth A. Carlson's documentary, "The Heart of Nuba." Serving as the only doctor for nearly one million people living in the war-torn Nuba...
The directors of Netflix’s smash cult docuseries “Wild Wild Country” answer all your burning questions
Source: Vanity Fair "I don’t think the Rajneeshees’ intentions were to come to Oregon and be a cult and poison 750 people,” says Maclain Way, enumerating just two of the illicit actions detailed in the much-buzzed about "Wild Wild Country," the Netflix documentary...
Elon Musk wants you to watch this documentary about the dangers of A.I.
Source: Nerdist For years, Elon Musk has offered dire warnings about the potential dark future of artificial intelligence. Now, Musk is turning up the volume of his message by sponsoring "Do You Trust This Computer?," a new documentary that explores the implications...
Mariska Hargitay examines the subject of untested rape kits in new documentary “I Am Evidence”
Source: Los Angeles Times Working on the set of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for almost 20 years, Mariska Hargitay received a flood of messages from sexual assault survivors. The experience drove her to action. The actress has teamed up with directors...
Why “Mankiller” is March’s must-see documentary
Source: Vogue It might sound like a revenge drama from the #MeToo movement; in fact "Mankiller," airing this month on PBS, is anything but. A documentary directed by Valerie Red-Horse Mohl and produced by "The Walking Dead’s" Gale Anne Hurd, it tells the story of...
Why it’s the perfect time to watch (or rewatch) “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” on Netflix
Source: GQ There’s a good chance you opened this article in a browser with a dozen other tabs. Maybe your TV is on or a podcast is playing. Your phone is pinging with notifications from texts, Twitter, and Facebook. We live in an age when we have everything except...
“Icarus” wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Source: Entertainment Weekly After striking a chord during the Winter Olympics, "Icarus" made an impression during the Oscars. The documentary from director Bryan Fogel about Russia’s state-sanctioned doping program earned the award for Best Documentary Feature...
“Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405″ wins Oscar for best documentary short
Source: Realscreen Frank Stiefel’s "Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405" was named Best Documentary Short at the 90th Academy Awards held in Los Angeles last night. The doc features 56-year-old artist Mindy Alper, who has spent nearly all of her life battling...