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The chilling Chilean film tells the story of an upper-middle class woman swept into the country’s antifascist resistance.

A front row seat to the frontlines of the climate battle on the streets and in Congress.

Michael Moore might be upset, but again on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, host John Dickerson hailed PBS star Ken Burns as “the most renowned documentary film maker of his time.” Burns has a more academic, less comical tone, but he’s just as radically to the left. The occasion is the 25th anniversary of the Burns documentary The Civil War. PBS is rolling the old show out again, and Burns is starring in pledge drives. Burns perfectly defines PBS as a haven for liberal Obama-loving snobs...

When an all-Black Shakespeare cast made stage history with Orson Welles.

This month marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the Hollywood Blacklist. On October 27, 1947, screenwriter John Howard Lawson, the first member of what came to be known as the “Hollywood Ten,” testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Immense pressure was exerted on individuals under conditions of the Cold War, anti-communist hysteria to “name names.” The witch-hunters were implacable.

An interview with filmmaker Stanley Nelson on his two new documentaries about abolitionist heroes: Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.

‘Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971,’ now on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, reckons with institutional racism and celebrates Black contributions, on and off screen.

In a new documentary, the heiress follows the lives of four low-wage Disney workers and examines the role of her family’s empire in late capitalism.

In ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’, Burns ponders if the land of the free could have done more.