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Documentary Film

Arts Movies & TV

Truth and Consequences: Documentaries and the Art of Manipulation

On the veracity of documentary filmmaking.

Blair McClendon The Drift Sep 2021 20min Permalink

World Movies & TV

India’s Leading Documentary Filmmaker Has a Warning

Anand Patwardhan spent decades tracking the rise of Hindu nationalism. And now, under an increasingly repressive government, he holds his screenings in secret.

Abhrajyoti Chakraborty New York Times Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Arts Sports

An American Surfer Goes Rogue to Claim the Baltic Sea's "Last Wave"

One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.

Jessica Camille Aguirre Deadspin Dec 2018 15min Permalink

Movies & TV

Ken Burns's American Canon

A profile of the documentary filmmaker.

Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2017 30min Permalink

Crime Politics

America Reloaded

The documentary filmmakers from Longbow Productions said they wanted to tell the story of the Bundy Family and their standoff with the government. Their cameras were real, but the people behind them were undercover FBI agents.

Trevor Aaronson The Intercept May 2017 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Predilections

A profile of the filmmaker Errol Morris as he prepared to release The Thin Blue Line after a decade of limited distribution, semi-poverty, and a side career as a private detective.

Mark Singer New Yorker Feb 1989 1h10min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Grantland Q&A: Errol Morris

“Some of the best lines — and I’ve been lucky to hear really nutso lines over the years — are not in response to any kind of question. It’s in response to, ‘I don’t know.’”

Alex Pappademas Grantland Mar 2015 20min Permalink

Arts History Movies & TV

Fascinating Fascism

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

Susan Sontag New York Review of Books Feb 1975 35min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

"Hoop Dreams": An Oral History

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

Jason Guerrasio The Dissolve Jan 2014 1h Permalink

Arts Media Movies & TV

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

Peter Maass New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 30min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV Music

We Never Have to Be Alone

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s thrilling, scary, inept performance on German television.

Will Sheff willsheff.com Feb 2013 45min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Brotherhood

On Sebastian Junger’s War and the documentary Restrepo by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya yesterday.

Sue Halpern New York Review of Books Aug 2010 10min Permalink

For the Love of Culture

Why our entire understanding of copyright is due for an overhaul.

Lawrence Lessig The New Republic Jan 2010 25min Permalink