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Ascension (pictured), Flee and Summer of Soul are just a few of the notable documentaries included in DOC NYC’s features short list for this year. The festival has unveiled the 15 features and 15 short ...
Diane Weyermann, a champion of the documentary genre through her career with Participant Media, the Sundance Institute and the Open Society Foundation, has passed away at the age of 66 ...
While such narrative features as 'Nomadland' and the docu-comedy 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' lean into reality, this season's docs 'Collective,' 'My Octopus Teacher' and 'The Mole Agent' play more like dramatic inventions.
A documentary film about an African American lawyer who rose from poverty and oppression in the Deep South to the highest court in the land would seem a natural for Black History Month. Yet, in February, at the very time its Prime Video service was featuring films highlighting black history makers, Amazon without explanation stopped offering digital streams of âCreated Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.â While the film was pulled despite having at one time reached No. 1 on Amazonâs documentary charts, the worldâs largest online retailer continued to make available st...
In his latest Netflix docu-series, the director of foundational works like “Paradise Lost” turned his lens to the fans and web sleuths who are changing the stakes of true crime.