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“Ernie & Joe” profiles two officers who are helping change the way police respond to mental health calls
Source: The Hollywood Reporter One of the unfortunate distinguishing characteristics of the American justice system has been its insistence on criminalizing, rather than treating, mental illness. Amid heightened scrutiny of police-community relations and deepening...
A Movie Poster Expert Explains Color Schemes
Source: Vanity Fair James Verdesoto, the movie poster artist behind iconic posters such as "Pulp Fiction," "Ocean's Eleven," "Girl, Interrupted," and "Training Day," explains how color schemes are used in movie posters. Receive the day’s documentary news every...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores stress in America in new HBO documentary
Source: Everyday Health Why are more Americans dying younger? In a dramatic reversal of declining mortality rates over the past century, life expectancy in the United States has dropped as "deaths by despair"—caused by drugs, alcohol, and suicide—have risen. The...
Netflix’s “The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann” revisits one of the biggest missing child cases in history
Source: Digital Spy Despite only arriving on Netflix on Friday, the eight-hour series, "The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann," has already proven controversial – by and large because of what Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, have had to say about it. The...
The 15 Best Sports Documentaries on Netflix
Source: Men's Health The Carter Effect - In his prime, there was nobody like Vince Carter—the high-flying, slam-dunking former Toronto Raptors star who earned the nickname Air Canada. This 2017 profile of Vinsanity follows the career of the All-Star, still playing...
“For Sama”, “Exit 12” win top documentary awards at SXSW
Sources: Realscreen and Film Threat Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ "For Sama" was awarded the top prize in the Documentary Feature category at the 26th annual SXSW Film Festival Awards on Tuesday. In 2011, a peaceful uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s brutal...
“Zika: Children of the Outbreak” examines the devastating impact of the Zika virus three years later
Source: CBS News Between 2015 and 2016, an outbreak of the Zika virus caused a crisis in Brazil: a dramatic increase in babies born with microcephaly. Then, as mysteriously as it arrived, the outbreak mostly subsided — from over 20,000 cases a week to just a few...
New Red Bull music doc “LA SKATE + MUSIC” is a loud love letter to the LA skate scene
Source: OC Weekly There may not be two communities more iconic to Southern California than skateboarding and the music scene that goes along with it. For the past six decades, skating has been tied to LA above and beyond any other city, and it’s helped to support...
The man behind *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys is revealed as a master fraudster in “The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story”
Source: Variety Filmmaker Aaron Kunkel fashions an absorbing true-crime narrative with a danceable beat from the testimonies of exploited pop celebrities, bilked investors, criminal investigators, and not-so-quietly aghast onlookers in “The Boy Band Con: The Lou...
“The River and the Wall” follows five adventurers as they travel the Rio Grande, assessing the ecological and social impact of a border wall
Source: The Hollywood Reporter The five adventurers in "The River and the Wall" set out with a purpose and a point of view. They will follow the Rio Grande for 1,200 miles where it forms the U.S.-Mexico border, trying to scope out the ecological damage Donald Trump’s...
“Horror Noire” director Xavier Burgin on “Blacula,” blackness, and film school
Source: Capital Public Radio The streaming horror platform Shudder, a part of AMC Networks, recently released its first original documentary, "Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror." Based on the book of the same name by Robin R. Means Coleman, the film examines...
“Autonomy” makes the convincing case that self-driving cars will change everything
Source: The Verge "Autonomy," a new documentary on self-driving cars directed by Alex Horwitz and produced by Car and Driver magazine, gets its most grievous sin out of the way in the first 15 minutes. Executive producer and New Yorker magazine writer and author...
Meet the growing, worldwide community who believe the earth is flat in “Behind the Curve”
Source: Entertainment Weekly There are scientific references to a spherical earth dating back to ancient Greece. In 240 B.C., Eratosthenes used trigonometry and measuring shadows to estimate the Earth’s circumference. The explorer Ferdinand Magellan returned from...
Watch the trailer for Steve Bannon documentary “The Brink”
Source: Axios After Steve Bannon left the White House in 2017, he tried to turn his bombastic nationalism into a global movement and let progressive documentarian Alison Klayman follow him for more than a year — from Arizona to Italy, Texas to France. The result is...
Shopify Studios releases “Unpacking Business”, “Beauty Mark”
Source: Realscreen Toronto-based Shopify Studios, the production arm of global commerce platform Shopify, has released two programs that focus on women entrepreneurs. In "Unpacking Business with Shay Mitchell" (pictured), the one-off short features "Pretty Little...
“Framing John DeLorean” blends documentary and drama
Source: Entertainment Weekly While the real-life rise and fall of auto business tycoon John DeLorean isn't as fantastical as the plot of the DeLorean car-featuring "Back to the Future," it's nevertheless pretty darned strange. The maverick auto executive found fame...
How a modern exorcist fights evil
Source: The Atlantic In the rolling Tuscan hills of Italy, the Vatican’s most prominent exorcist fights the true essence of evil. Father Raffaele Talmelli is engaged in an age-old tradition, but he takes a decidedly unorthodox approach to battling demons. Ivan...
Beto O’Rourke receives standing ovation at SXSW for “Running With Beto”
Source: Variety Beto O’Rourke received a standing ovation at South by Southwest on Saturday afternoon after the premiere of “Running With Beto.” Although the documentary plays like an announcement for a presidential run, O’Rourke sidestepped the question about 2020...
HBO doc “I Love You, Now Die” spotlights infamous texting suicide case
Source: Deadline HBO has released the first trailer for their upcoming true-crime documentary, "I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter," and although there's sparse footage, it’s chilling. Directed by Erin Lee Carr ("Mommy Dead and Dearest"), the...
“Black Mother” is a personal, radical, expansive portrait of Jamaica and its people
Source: The A.V. Club Khalik Allah’s latest documentary, "Black Mother," may be considered something of a homecoming project for its photographer-turned-director. Filmed in Jamaica over a two-year period (during which time he also contributed to Beyoncé’s...
