But I suspect Orlean is an outlier, and not just because according to the documentary, at one point one in every 20 American households purportedly purchased...
A lot of TV sports documentaries in the post-“Drive to Survive” world take a broad, rudimentary and personality-driven approach: Make the sport welcoming to new viewers,...
“No Other Land” has racked up festival awards, critical acclaim and the Oscar for best documentary feature. Yet the film, a narrative exposé about Israeli demolitions...
Dennis McDougal, a prolific author, Hollywood muckraker and Peabody Award-winning documentarian, died on Saturday from injuries sustained in a car crash in Southern California. He was...
For the Bronx crew ESG, another group formed by sisters — Renee Scruggins and her younger siblings Valerie, Deborah and Marie, along with a friend, Tito...
The makers of “Meanwhile” (in theaters) describe it as a “docu-poem,” which is a bold choice: Not many people encounter feature-length nonfiction poetry onscreen. But in...
The mayor of Miami Beach is seeking to oust a nonprofit art house cinema from a city-owned property for showing “No Other Land,” the Oscar-winning documentary...
The three-part documentary “The Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke,” on Hulu, follows the chilling case of the popular mommy vlogger who eventually...
“I don’t know how you get justice from an accident.” In 2021, the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of the movie “Rust.”...
There’s a temptation, when making a documentary about some obviously retrograde practice from the past, for filmmakers to treat their subject like something to gawk at....
