documentary
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Let The Fire Burn
In Jason Osder’s bleak, infuriating documentary Let The Fire Burn there’s a feeling of amazement at what he...
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Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago
“I don’t want to sit in my depressed little life, popping pills in the same pattern.” It’s the...
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Bettie Page Reveals All
As one subject in director Mark Mori’s loving hagiography Bettie Page Reveals All says, when you see Ms. Page...
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The Punk Singer
Throughout the ’90s and into the early 2000’s, Kathleen Hanna blazed a trail for young feminists everywhere, fronting...
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Sweet Dreams
In 1994, Rwanda was devastated by the genocide that saw the country’s Hutus slaughter nearly 1 million Tutsis...
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East Nashville Tonight
Originally attempting to film a documentary to promote touring country music songwriters, co-directors Brad and Todd Barnes (Peace...
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Humano
With such a philosophical subject as trying to discover the reason for our existence, Humano is indeed as...
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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
Renowned filmmaker Michel Gondry has an animated (I say that both figuratively and literally) conversation with the famous...
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The Armstrong Lie
In 2008, when legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong announced that he would return from retirement and compete in the...
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American Promise
American Promise is a terrific film about racial imbalance and family dynamics, whose immense 13-year production process (from...
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Running From Crazy
Barbara Kopple, director of the riveting 1976 labor strike documentary, Harlan County U.S.A., misfires with her latest doc, Running From...
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Roger Ross Williams on ‘God Loves Uganda’ and the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Roger Ross Williams’ deeply disturbing, eye-opening documentary, God Loves Uganda, explores the role White, evangelical Americans played in spreading...
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Spinning Plates
In Spinning Plates, a documentary for both rabid foodies and casual diners alike, we follow the stories of three...
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God Loves Uganda
In the most infuriating, jaw-dropping piece of footage in Roger Ross Williams’ polemical documentary, God Loves Uganda, members...
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The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali is one of the most enduring social and pop culture figures of our time; he’s almost...