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Where to Stream 11 Essential Ken Burns Documentaries
Source: The New York Times Brooklyn Bridge - 58 minutes - Amazon Prime, Kanopy, and Sundance Now Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War - 1 hour 19 minutes - Netflix and Kanopy The Central Park Five - 1 hour 58 minutes - Amazon Prime, Kanopy, Google...
“School Life” goes inside an Irish boarding school for an unusually charming documentary
Source: The Los Angeles Times "School Life" is as charming, intimate, and warm-hearted an observational documentary as you'll ever want to see. Called "In Loco Parentis" when it captivated audiences earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, "School Life" is in...
“Rat Film” burrows into Baltimore’s complex social history, by way of rodent
Source: Chicago Tribune The rat/human urban coexistence struggle plays out in so many cities. Orkin has Chicago in the No. 1 spot of America’s 50 rattiest areas. A documentary filmmaker could make 50 or 5,000 different sorts of nonfiction movies on the subject. In...
New Harry Potter documentary featuring J.K. Rowling heading to the BBC
Source: Mashable The BBC recently announced that it will air a Harry Potter documentary this fall featuring an exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone." The one-off special will...
These two documentary shorts examine what life was like before DACA
Source: Remezcla The controversy over the Trump Administration's recent decision to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) has initiated a conversation about the lives of those who would be affected, particularly teenagers and young adults who arrived in...
Netflix documentary “Strong Island” is a necessary and heartbreaking look at the U.S. justice system
Source: Bustle You probably haven't heard about the 1992 murder of William Ford Jr., and that's likely because his death never received a trial, never mind publicity. In the new Netflix documentary "Strong Island," William's brother, Yance, tells the story of his...
“20 Feet from Stardom” director Morgan Neville shares how he got his start
Source: Peninsula Daily News Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville found his life’s work at a young age. Neville, Academy Award winner for "20 Feet from Stardom," was interviewed by actress and educator Akuyoe Graham at Port Townsend High School...
“Jesus Camp” directors go inside another insular religious community in “One of Us”
Source: Variety With their impressive documentaries, “The Boys of Baraka,” “Jesus Camp,” and “Detropia,” directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have explored the formative relationship shared between environments and their inhabitants — a dynamic that also serves as...
Meet the founders of Disorder: The Rare Disease Film Festival
Source: Rare Disease Report In a few weeks, Cambridge, Massachusetts will play host to Disorder: The Rare Disease Film Festival. Thirty films, many of which are documentaries, will be shown between October 2 and October 3, and each will highlight a rare disease. The...
China Revealed: How two new documentaries explore a side of the country never seen before
Source: IndieWire Two Chinese independent films—Wang Bing’s Golden Leopard-winning “Mrs. Fang” and Xu Bing’s “Dragonfly Eyes”— competed for the Golden Leopard at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival. Wang and Xu are established names whose works speak to...
TIFF 2017: “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” spotlights the urgent legacy of “Raisin in the Sun” playwright Lorraine Hansberry
Source: NOW The selection of documentaries that played at this year's Toronto International Film Festival consisted of several titles delving into the lives and legacies of influential black and African-American public figures, including "Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart."...
Jane Goodall’s remarkable career gets a much-deserved documentary in revelatory “Jane”
Source: IndieWire Brett Morgen’s revelatory “Jane” offers up contributions from a bounty of some of film’s finest working professionals, from the award-winning Morgen himself to composer Philip Glass and cinematographer Ellen Kuras, but the real star is reams of...
Watch an animated documentary about the making of the new Foo Fighters album “Concrete And Gold”
Source: BLABBERMOUTH.NET An animated documentary about the making of the Foo Fighters' ninth studio album, "Concrete And Gold," is available for viewing below. Released Friday, the follow-up to 2014's "Sonic Highways" was a direct response to the way that record was...
The 20 Best Documentaries You Can Watch for Free on YouTube
Source: Highsnobiety A Certain Kind of Death - One of the great mysteries that exists today is what happens to our bodies after we die. In "A Certain Kind of Death," filmmakers Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh ask a much simpler question: what literally happens to a...
TIFF 2017: “Love Means Zero” is an entertaining doc about the tennis world’s greatest monster
Source: IndieWire Remember Anwar Congo, the aging mass-murderer profiled in Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing”? Well, imagine if that guy had been born in the United States instead of Indonesia, and had become a children’s tennis coach instead of the genocidal...
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War” premieres tonight on PBS
Source: Rolling Stone A decade in the making, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's "The Vietnam War," a 10-episode, 18-hour, 360-degree documentary, that premieres tonight on PBS, isn't just a corrective to the fact that generations have grown up being taught little more...
TIFF 2017: Morgan Spurlock tackles the powerful chicken industry in “Super Size Me” sequel
Source: Variety Morgan Spurlock is back baiting the food industry with “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” In 2004’s Oscar-nominated “Super Size Me,” the filmmaker took on McDonald’s, and this time around Spurlock tackles the chicken industry by opening his own...
Amazon announces documentary series chronicling Michigan’s 2017 football season
Source: ABC News The 2017 Michigan football season will be chronicled in a series set to be released on Amazon Prime in January 2018. The series will contain exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage of the team and will feature the lives of the student-athletes as well...
Rare Prince documentary “Sign O’ The Times” airs tonight on Showtime
Source: The A.V. Club Rare Prince concert film, "Sign O’ The Times," airs tonight on Showtime. The film hasn’t been seen on American TV in over a decade and has never been issued on DVD. Originally created as a companion to the 1987 album it shares a name with, the...
Entrepreneur prepares documentary series on women in the tech industry
Source: The Oregonian The dearth of women in the tech industry is well documented, but entrepreneur and tech professional Jennifer Cloer says she's most concerned about the number of women leaving it. So Cloer is launching an online documentary film series to...