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This week we’re looking at documentaries. We know Michael Moore holds the record for the largest box offices in this rarely profitable film genre. Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” heads up the

Portrayals of homosexuality were frowned upon until the 1960s, by the movie industry's production code and such groups as the Legion of Decency. Yet gays were everywhere in the movies, right from the beginning--this documentary shows two men dancing together in a Thomas Edison short named “The Gay Brothers,” from 1895--and often they were hidden in plain view. Hollywood knew who was gay and who was not, and there were in-jokes like John Ireland's line to Montgomery Clift in “Red River”: “There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch, or a woman from ...

LGBTQ Community Leaders Remember Sally Miller Gearhart Susan Leo, July 14, 2021: Sally slipped these earthly bonds last night after a long illness. In her last days she had been visited by many who loved her, both in the flesh and in spirit and she seemed ready to let go. Sally was remarkable: sharp in her thinking, clear in her politics, fiercely determined, warmly compassionate. She was an immense presence in San Francisco, arriving in 1970 and becoming the first openly lesbian professor at San Francisco State University in 1973. In 1978, she worked closely with Harvey Milk (1930–1978) in...

‘Great Freedom’ (‘Grosse Freiheit’): Film Review | Cannes 2021 David Rooney Anyone familiar with Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s powerful 2000 documentary feature, Paragraph 175, will recognize that title as the provision of the German penal code that sanctioned horrific Nazi persecution of homosexuals, a law dating back to 1871. What’s more startling is that criminal prosecution continued in West Germany up until the late 1960s, destroying the lives of thousands of men, and that full decriminalization did not come until 1994. Sebastian Meise’s intricately st...

What’s on TV This Week: ‘The People vs. Agent Orange’ and Macy’s Fireworks PBS airs a documentary about the enduring effects of Agent Orange. And the Macy’s annual fireworks display returns to New York in full force. A scene from “The People vs. Agent Orange,” a documentary about the defo.Credit...National Archives and Records Administration June 28, 2021, 1:00 a.m. ET Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, June 28-July 4. Details and times are sub...