Source:  Recode When setting out to make her new documentary, “Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age,” journalist Nancy Jo Sales says she wanted to humanize the people who used dating apps. She wanted to show that they are real people and not just pictures to be...

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...

Source:  The Hollywood Reporter Claude Lanzmann, the director behind the landmark nine-and-a-half-hour Holocaust documentary, "Shoah," has died. He was 92. A spokesperson for the Gallimard publishing house, which published his memoir, told The Hollywood Reporter on...

Source:  Vulture The granddaddy of true-crime docuseries, "The Staircase" follows the 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson and subsequent murder trial of her husband, novelist Michael Peterson. The case’s core question was how Kathleen Peterson actually died: Was she...

When it comes right down to it, the late Garry Shandling didn’t quite get into comedy for the laughs. That conclusion comes from his close friend Judd Apatow, who plumbs Shandling’s long and sometimes tortured quest for enlightenment in "The Zen Diaries of Garry...

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...

Source:  The Outline Too few people understand just how much the United States owes to historically black colleges and universities — more commonly called HBCUs — and their graduates. Without HBCUs, there would be no black middle class. And who knows how the course of...

Source:  The Washington Post Chicago moviemaker Steve James has always stayed ahead of the documentary film industry. Maybe too far ahead. James brought a then-unheard-of narrative sensibility to his 1994 basketball documentary “Hoop Dreams.” He embedded dangerously...

Source:  Vulture At the Golden Globe awards ceremony on Sunday night, while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, Oprah Winfrey used her enormous platform and oratory skills to shine light on a little-known historical figure who died at the...

Source:  Deadline With "Ex Libris: The New York Public Library," the 41st and latest documentary by Frederick Wiseman, making an Oscar run, the noted filmmaker’s entire catalog will start streaming in the coming months on Kanopy, a service that's free to library card...