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Now playing: Charm City takes viewers inside Baltimore on the brink

In murder capital of America, director Marilyn Ness finds local heroes, concerned cops trying to make it better

Reinventing the biographical documentary: sibling filmmakers behind 306 Hollywood take 'magical realist' approach to their grandmother's story

Clothes on the house, 'girdle' dance on the lawn: Elan and Jonathan Bogarín's film is artistically unique

Oscar-winning doc Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405 becomes available on streaming platforms for first time

Frank Stiefel's short, about gifted artist Mindy Alper, won Academy Award in March

Free Solo leads way with six nominations for Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

Film about audacious ascent of Yosemite's El Capitan also yields nomination for climber Alex Honnold

With Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, what happens now? Timely Netflix doc Reversing Roe offers clues

Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg tell Nonfictionfilm.com if they think conservative justices will 'unsettle' settled law

Doc box office: Free Solo climbs to no. 1

Silver lining for Michael Moore: His Fahrenheit 11/9 is now a bigger hit than conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's latest

Nadia Murad, subject of upcoming doc On Her Shoulders, wins Nobel Peace Prize

Alexandria Bombach's film on young Yazidi activist opens October 19

Showtime to air documentary on New York Times bombshell investigation into Trump family tax 'dodge'

Watch trailer here for The Family Business: Trump and Taxes

Watch new trailer for upcoming Morgan Neville doc on Orson Welles

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead coming to Netflix and theaters; documents making of Welles' last unfinished film

Now playing: Science Fair celebrates keen teen minds who could change the world

Directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster on their brilliant subjects and the political subtext to their film: 'Our national leaders are undermining science'

Michael Moore on his anti-Trump documentary Fahrenheit 11/9 and the 'chilling' thing Steve Bannon told him: 'I thought, wow, isn't that the truth'

Moore talks with Nonfictionfilm.com as his latest film goes wide everywhere

Now playing: Hal tells story of under-appreciated filmmaker behind Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Being There

Director Amy Scott drafted Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Lee Grant, the Bridges Brothers, Louis Gossett Jr. for her doc on Hal Ashby, but she reveals which 'big fish' got away: 'I couldn't believe it'

Ricki Lake/Abby Epstein doc Weed the People to get theatrical release

Film touts benefits of medical marijuana 

IDA Screening Series kicks off with doc blockbuster Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Director Morgan Neville reveals what prompted him to make Fred Rogers film and who told him, 'Don't make Fred into a saint'

A win for Wild Wild Country: Way Brothers, Duplass Brothers visit with Nonfictionfilm.com on the Emmy red carpet

They talk about 'polarizing'  Ma Anand Sheela and making it al the way to the Emmys: 'We're just thrilled to be here'

MR SOUL! wins top doc awards at aGLIFF festival in Austin

​LA Film Festival next up for documentary about pioneering TV host Ellis Haizlip

Emmy Awards: doc trophies go to Strong Island, Wild Wild Country, Brett Morgen, Judd Apatow and more

Anthony Bourdain, cinematographer Hugo van Lawick win posthumous Emmys 

Photos from Creative Arts Emmys Day 2 [click for more]

Photos from Creative Arts Emmys Day 1 [click for more]

Trailer released for upcoming doc Liyana, unique vérité-animation hybrid

Film tells story of kids in  Swaziland orphaned by HIV/AIDS

Trailer released for Chef Flynn, doc on culinary prodigy Flynn McGarry

Just skating by: new doc Minding the Gap earns rave reviews with tale of boarders shadowed by abuse

Director Bing Liu talks with Nonfictionfilm.com about his coming of age story, and where his characters are now: endorsement deals and a movie role

In Toronto, docs on American politics will dominate

TIFF 2018 starts Thursday with world premiere of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9, followed quickly by films on Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes and more

Nonfictionfilm.com exclusive: Last filmmaker to go in depth with John McCain remembers late Senator: 'There was no BS, there was no pretense'

Director Teddy Kunhardt reveals what McCain wanted viewers to get from their HBO doc, and his thoughts on Trump's response to McCain's death: 'I'm offended'

Award-winning doc Call Her Ganda to get theatrical release, Oscar push

Film by PJ Raval explores shocking death of trans Filipino woman killed by U.S. Marine

Trailer debuts for The Dawn Wall -- one of two new docs on brave attempts to scale rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan

Director Brett Morgen on the title he wanted for his doc instead of Jane, and why Philip Glass 'wanted to kill me'

Filmmaker discusses making of film that's up for seven Emmys: 'This was one of the most frustrating, difficult... experiences'

Doc box office: two presidents, Three Identical Strangers

Dinesh D'Souza's Lincoln/Trump love fest claims no. 1, but has a long way to go to catch Strangers' total

Honest Abe, meet Dishonest Don: conservative filmmaker does presidential mashup in Death of a Nation

Dinesh D'Souza doc makes a tidy sum, but still manages to underperform

Trailer debut: American Masters doc coming on Andrew Wyeth

PBS promises 'the most complete portrait of the artist yet'

Now playing: Dark Money reveals shocking extent of corporate scheme to buy elections

Kimberly Reed's film is bracing, but with a ray of hope: director shows how one state is fighting back against secret campaign financing

Rome Film Festival announces premiere of Charles Ferguson docu-series on Watergate

Shades of Trump? Oscar-winning director says Nixon scandal 'a sobering, frightening demonstration of the fragility of democracy in the face of the abuse of power'

Netflix goes from Farrakhan to Farra-can't

Streamer nixes doc from controversial Nation of Islam leader after first appearing to get behind it; internet explodes with criticism

LA Film Festival announces competition lineup

Docs on Montgomery Clift, flat earth conspiracists and more on tap

Doc box office: big weekend for Fred Rogers, Scotty Bowers

Morgan Neville's Won't You Be My Neighbor? breaks records; doc on Hollywood hustler off to great start

Now playing: McQueen tells story of artistic genius who transcended fashion deign

Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui talk with Nonfictionfilm.com about late Alexander McQueen: 'His influence seeped through all of popular culture'

Opening today: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood reveals sex lives of closeted stars, and the man who fulfilled their desires

Scotty Bowers, now 95, slept with a Who's Who of the movie industry, from Grant to Olivier; Nonfictionfilm.com is there as he gets proclamation from city

American Dharma: Errol Morris doc on Steve Bannon heading to Venice Film Festival

Venice nonfiction lineup also features Morgan Neville film on Orson Wells, Fred Wiseman's Monrovia, Indiana

Trailer released for NYPD Blue doc Crime + Punishment

Hulu film set for theatrical release August 24

Trailer drops for award-winning doc Science Fair

Endearing film about brilliant kids to debut in theaters September 14

Of the Birkin Bag, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump: director Lauren Greenfield explores impact of toxic materialism in Generation Wealth

Director says of Trump: 'He's kind of a symptom of this disease'

Outfest prizes announced: awards go to When the Beat Drops and Man Made

Call Her Ganda, Transmilitary earn Special Mention recognition

Doc box office: Triplets film doubles down

Three Identical Strangers passes $4.5 mil. mark after big weekend

The 'buck' stops here: underground dance style celebrated in Outfest doc When the Beat Drops

Incredible live display of bucking put on after screening. Click to watch

Opening today: Love, Cecil
​new doc on brilliant photographer, Oscar, Tony-winning designer Cecil Beaton

He photographed the famous and had nasty words for some of them: 'Elizabeth Taylor is everything I dislike'

Trailer debuts for Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., doc on controversial British-Sri Lankan pop artist

Film premiered to acclaim at Sundance, but singer has her critics

3x2: Deal struck to adapt hit doc Three Identical Strangers into feature film

Tim Wardle's film centers on triplets separated at birth, reunited at 19

They said what? Talk turns to nudity on stage, and how to 'prepare' for it at Outfest Q&A for documentary Every Act of Life

Rita Moreno posed the hard questions to Justin Kirk

"He writes... stinging, vicious, but very human" characters: Swoosie Kurtz on playwright Terrence McNally, subject of doc Every Act of Life

Tony-winning star talks with Nonfictionfilm.com at Outfest premiere of Jeff Kaufman film

Genius fashion designer Alexander McQueen comes into focus in documentary opening Friday

Exec. Producer Kinvara Balfour talks with Nonfictionfilm.com about McQueen: 'A true creative visionary... His ideas were unique'

Outfest: Rita Moreno walks red carpet, talks "Googie Gomez" and playwright Terrence McNally, subject of Every Act of Life

EGOT legend starred in Broadway, film version of McNally's The Ritz: 'Little Irish lad with a poison tongue'

Outfest: Looking For? explores sex, love and hooking up in the digital age

Director Tung-Yen Chou talks with Nonfictionfilm.com about his 'dating app' doc: 'I don't want to judge about it'

Outfest: Call Her Ganda tells shocking story of trans Filipina woman killed by U.S. Marine

Director PJ Raval talks with Nonfictionfilm.com about Jennifer Laude and analogies to American imperialism

Outfest showcases Every Act of Life, doc on openly-gay playwright, Tony winner Terrence McNally

Director Jeff Kaufman, producer Marcia Ross talk with Nonfictionfilm.com: McNally 'really changed the American theater'

Emmy nominations: Jane, Wild Wild Country, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown earn major recognition

Director Brett Morgen gets vindication after Oscar snub, but Errol Morris series Wormwood gets no love

Now playing: After Auschwitz follows death camp survivors who came to America, but struggled to heal: 'How do you move on from trauma to life?'

Director Jon Kean talks with Nonfictionfilm.com about his documentary, plus rise of the right in Europe and Trump's failure to condemn torch-bearing neo-Nazis: 'I am deeply, deeply troubled'

Director of documentary Tab Hunter Confidential pays tribute to late star: 'His was a life well lived'

Director Jeffrey Schwarz joins Hollywood stars Matt Bomer, Zachary Quinto, George Takei remembering 1950s heart-throb who found courage to come out

Huge weekend for docs at box office: Won't You Be My Neighbor? and Whitney lead the way

Morgan Neville's Mr. Rogers film becomes year's highest-grossing doc

Shoah director Claude Lanzmann, historic figure in documentary film, dies at 92

Tributes pour in from Cannes, Berlin film festivals and journalist who made Oscar-nominated short on Lanzmann

Documentary reportedly in the works on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who brought down Democratic powerbroker

Filmmaker Rachel Lears began following rising political star months before her stunning primary victory

A beautiful day in the neighborhood for Fred Rogers doc

Morgan Neville's Won't You Be My Neighbor? adds $2.4 mil. to impressive haul

Company behind I, Tonya to release vintage doc on 15-year-old Tonya Harding

Sharp Edges filmed over 30 years ago by Yale University student

Now playing: Three Identical Strangers tells stranger-than-fiction story of triplets separated at birth, reunited by chance as adults

Award-winning Tim Wardle film raises universal questions of nature vs. nurture 

Justice at last for Filmworker Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick's righthand man 

Subject of documentary by Tony Zierra gets invitation to join Motion Picture Academy

Motion Picture Academy invites Yance Ford, Feras Fayyad, Evgeny Afineevsky and more to join exclusive club

But what about Oscar winners Bryan Fogel and Frank Stiefel?

Filmmaker Op-ed: Tickling Giants director Sara Taksler writes of her unorthodox Emmy campaign, 'We're focusing on humor and heart'

Film tells story of 'Egyptian Jon Stewart' who paid steep price for making fun of his country's leaders: 'We are foolish if we think what happened to Bassem can’t happen here.'

Now playing: The Quest of Alain Ducasse, doc on culinary great who opened restaurant at Versailles

Gilles de Maistres directed film on chef/mentor/entrepreneur who boasts more Michelin stars than (almost) anyone 

Documentary Cowboy & Preacher aims to convert evangelicals into environmental crusaders

Dances With Films premieres Will Fraser's doc about pastor with passion for all God's creation: 'Environmentalism fits squarely into inarguable Christian priorities'

Emmy-contending doc Tickling Giants sets free screening in LA

Acclaimed Sara Taksler film focuses on surgeon-turned-comedian who dared to make fun of Egypt's humorless leaders

Antidote to ugly Trump era: new doc from Morgan Neville on kinder Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Director's Won't You Be My Neighbor? is not about nostalgia but the present moment: 'Can we at least agree on the basic principles of what kind of neighborhood we want to have?'

Trump grants pardon to conservative doc filmmaker, convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza

President claims he was 'very unfairly treated,' but Nonfictionfilm.com writes there is no pardoning D'Souza's intellectual dishonesty

Pump it up! RBG does more heavy lifting at box office

Film on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg courts doc blockbuster status

Director Wim Wenders on his new Pope Francis doc, and how the pontiff responded when he told him, 'I'm a believer, but I'm Protestant now'

At IDA Conversation Series event, he shares observations on papal footwear, Jean-Luc Godard's internal clock and the 'paradise' of growing up in a bombed-out city.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg outperforms Pope Francis at doc box office

RBG continues major theatrical run with another no. 1 finish

Samouni Road wins l'Oeil d'or, top doc prize at Cannes

Film by Stefano Savona tells story of Palestinian family killed by Israel Defense Forces in midst of Gaza war

Photos from Netflix custom Emmys showcase [click for more]

Emmy Season: surprise guest highlights Netflix screening of doc series Wild Wild Country 

Central character, controversial 'badass' Ma Anand Sheela, appears from Switzerland: 'I know who I am and what I did' 

Photos from the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival [click for more]

Poetic doc Phantom Cowboys heads to Sheffield after Tribeca premiere

Film by Daniel Patrick Carbone follows three young men from adolescence to adulthood: 'We started shooting when they were as young as 13 so it's impossible to know where that's going to lead'

Fabulous RBG: doc on Ruth Bader Ginsburg opens big at box office

Film on liberal Supreme Court Justice makes $17,014 per screen

'Indelible' Makala wins top doc prize at COLCOA French Film Festival

Film by Emmanuel Gras adds to honors from Cannes, Moscow festivals

Hello, dolly! Hulu releases new doc on Barbie, as she undergoes her biggest re-invention ever

Tiny Shoulders director Andrea Nevins on gaining intimate access to Mattel: 'When we caught them they were at kind of a rock bottom'

Hear that? Doc on artist Joseph Beuys wins top honor at German Film Awards 

Andres Veiel directed film about late controversial figure with Nazi past and influential career

17th Tribeca Film Festival kicks off with doc on Gilda Radner

Tina Fey, Chevy Chase, Robert De Niro among stars on hand for opening night event

Photo: Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival

'Rock' stars: Will Smith, Darren Aronofsky, Nutopia combine for NatGeo series on Planet Earth

10-part One Strange Rock to compete in Emmy documentary series category

Director Fred Wiseman's full catalogue becomes available for streaming for first time

More than three dozen docs from honorary Oscar winner now online at Kanopy

Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach star in new clip from Howard, doc on late lyricist Howard Ashman

Don Hahn directed film set to premiere at Tribeca 

Young film buff lands dream gig: designing official Cannes poster

Flore Maquin, 27, tips cap to Godard for poster; graphic artist known for reinterpreting classic films

Steven Spielberg, Alex Gibney team up for Discovery docuseries Why We Hate

Six-parter will investigate 'human capacity for hatred'

The Flight Fantastic: doc celebrating art of trapeze and 'First Family of the Air' now on iTunes, Amazon

Director Tom Moore documents The Flying Gaonas, aerialists par excellence

Jordan Peele to follow up Get Out with docuseries on notorious case of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt

Peele promises Lorena will reinterpret penis-severing story on basis of 'gender dynamics'

Director Peter Kunhardt on King in the Wilderness-- HBO doc revealing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s turbulent final years

He speaks with Nonfictionfilm.com as nation marks 50th anniversary of King's assassination

Science Fair, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., People's Republic of Desire on tap as LA Asian Pacific Film Festival program announced

More than a dozen docs to screen during nine-day event

Al Pacino goes 'Wilde' for Salomé

Stephen Fry moderates Q&A with actor/producer/director about two unique  projects starring Pacino and Jessica Chastain

Doc box office: Closest race ever for No. 1

Razor thin margin separates Leaning Into the Wind and Bombshell

Trailer drops for upcoming doc on Fred Rogers, on what would have been his 90th birthday 

Morgan Neville directed Won't You Be My Neighbor? about public television icon

Doc on photographer Garry Winogrand scores theatrical distribution deal after winning SXSW prize

Director Sasha Waters Freyer talks with Nonfictionfilm.com about Winogrand's artistic highs and lows 

SXSW: 6th Street in black and white [click for more photos]

SXSW 2018: Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein unveil Weed the People

Doc makes case that cannabis can be effective treatment for children with cancer. Filmmakers slam Jeff Sessions for anti-pot policies.

SXSW Awards: People's Republic of Desire wins top doc prize

Sex-themed films dominate as This One's For The Ladies and My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes also win awards

SXSW: Sexy This One's For The Ladies sells to Neon

Director Gene Graham says doc's not for anyone who fears 'seeing a large black penis'

Jane Goodall on what she loves about Brett Morgen's Jane, and the one thing she thinks it's missing...

'He refused to mention Rusty,' she tells Nonfictionfilm.com. 'I don't know why.'

Photos from the 2018 SXSW Conference and Festivals [click for more]

5 questions with filmmaker behind new doc on 'land artist' Andy Goldsworthy

Thomas Reidelsheimer, director of Leaning Into the Wind, on his subject: 'I never had the feeling of wasting a single minute of time while working with Andy. There are too many things to see, hear, feel and learn.'

'Hero. Icon. Dissenter.' Trailer drops for highly-anticipated doc RBG

Film on life, career of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg opens theatrically May 4

Agnès Varda and JR on their magical collaboration in Faces Places: 'We really forgot about the age difference from the beginning'

Oscar-nominated documentary released on Blu-ray two days after Academy Awards

Photos from the IDA's DocuDay on Oscar eve [click for more]

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 wins Oscar for Best Documentary Short

Director Frank Stiefel says his film won because audiences fell for his subject, artist Mindy Alper

Icarus wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature

Director Bryan Fogel dedicates victory to main character, whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov

Faces Places pastes competition at Independent Spirit Awards

Agnès Varda/JR film wins best doc honor on eve of Academy Awards

IDA, Motion Picture Academy slam Trump administration for denying visa to Syrian producer of Last Men in Aleppo

Documentary group also defends director Feras Fayyad against Russian disinformation campaign

Sundance winner Talal Derki on his Jihadist-themed doc Of Fathers and Sons: 'If you don't understand your enemy you cannot defeat him'

Humanist director posed as militant Islamist to film family in Syria, revealing radical lives in chilling detail

Berlin Film Festival: New teaser released for Louie Psihoyos pro-vegan doc The Game Changers

Film executive-produced by James Cameron made world premiere at Sundance

Report: Academy Award-nominated producer and subject of Last Men in Aleppo prevented from attending Oscars

Director Feras Fayyad blames Trump travel ban for team's absence

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Icarus team throws Olympic Opening Ceremonies viewing party as Russian athletes march, minus their flag

Bryan Fogel's Oscar-nominated doc played decisive role in Russia's official ban from Winter Games

Russian whistleblower who played central role in Icarus to appear on 60 Minutes

Grigory Rodchenkov exposed Russian state-sponsored doping program in Oscar-nominated film; tells 60 Minutes his life is in danger -- 'Even on U.S. soil'

'Something Resembling Truth': The Broad museum opens major exhibition on Jasper Johns

Artist was subject of early American Masters documentary

Tribeca Film Festival to open with documentary on Gilda Radner

Love, Gilda features Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Melissa McCarthy and more

Documentary nominees attend Oscar Luncheon, one of them in cutout form

Streep and Oldman join Fayyad and Ford: annual event draws luminaries of fiction and nonfiction film

Photo by Jordan Strauss for Invision/AP

Director Matthew Heineman wins second DGA Award in three years

Honor comes for his documentary City of Ghosts, on same weekend his new Showtime docu-series premieres

Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman unveils docu-series The Trade, bracing look at country's opioid epidemic

Showtime series expands on his Cartel Land work: 'I just felt there was an even bigger story to be told' 

Sundance 2018: documentary Science Fair wins first-ever Festival Favorite Award

Directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster sit down with Nonfictionfilm.com to talk about high school science fairs, brilliant young competitors and political dimension to their delightful film

Sundance 2018 wraps with doc Grand Jury prizes to Kailash and Of Fathers and Sons

Davis Guggenheim and Laurene Powell Jobs among exec producers on Derek Doneen's Kailash

Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville returns to Sundance with Won't You Be My Neighbor?, story of cardigan-clad Mr. Rogers

He tells Nonfictionfilm.com America of today needs Rogers' wisdom more than ever

Sundance 2018: Doc on Ruth Bader Ginsburg to get theatrical release

RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, acquired by Magnolia, Participant

Sundance 2018: Exclusive photos, video from premiere of Chef Flynn, doc on teenage culinary phenom [click for more]

Oscar nominations: Faces Places, Icarus, Last Men in Aleppo, Abacus, Strong Island make it in, but Jane a surprise omission

In doc shorts category, Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405 takes expressway to Oscar nom

Sundance exclusive: photos/videos from pro-vegan doc The Game Changers    [click for more]

Sundance 2018: Jane Fonda's journey revealed in 'Five Acts'

She tells Nonfictionfilm.com: 'I've lived one life that's taken many paths and turns and twists' 

Sundance 2018: Lauren Greenfield unveils Generation Wealth, doc on American obsession with money and fame

​New film a culmination of 25 years of work documenting the cost of materialism

Sex, lies and Harvey Weinstein: Sundance leaders call disgraced mogul's behavior 'sickening,' deny enabling him

Festival initiates new code of conduct in wake of Weinstein fall and #MeToo movement

13th director Ava DuVernay wins Entertainer of the Year at NAACP Image Awards

Oscar-nominated filmmaker gives rousing acceptance speech praising work of creators of color

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for NAACP

Stop, look and listen: Step wins best documentary at NAACP Image Awards

Film on President Obama takes prize for outstanding TV doc

Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro to air on PBS Independent Lens on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Film deals in part with James Baldwin's relationship with MLK; speaks directly to racism in Trump's America

Strong Island takes top prizes at 11th Annual Cinema Eye Honors

Yance Ford film wins best documentary, director and more; Jane earns multiple awards

Strong Island director and producer on worldwide reaction to Oscar-shortlisted doc

On IDA red carpet Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes address film's themes, refugee crisis and Trump's 'fear-mongering'

Oscar-shortlisted doc focuses on artist who finds 'Heaven is a traffic jam on the 405'

Frank Stiefel film paints moving portrait of remarkable Mindy Alper

Errol Morris in, Brett Morgen out: Surprises abound as DGA Awards doc nominees announced

Wormwood is recognized, but Jane and Faces Places snubbed

Exclusive photos from Strong Island screening in LA
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Faces Places wins best doc award from Alliance of Women Film Journalists 

'Sexual Tormentors Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner et al' earn AWFJ Hall of Shame honor

BAFTA Awards nominations announced: Jane, Icarus, An Inconvenient Sequel and more in contention

Filmmaker op-ed: Frank Stiefel on making his Oscar-shortlisted doc Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405

Illness interrupted his progress on the film about artist Mindy Alper, but led to deeper insights: 'The footage was different to me now'

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Faces Places places first with National Society of Film Critics

Agnès Varda-JR film named best documentary;  Frederick Wiseman's Ex Libris comes in second

Brett Morgen earns Writers Guild Award nomination for Jane Goodall doc

He tells Nonfictionfilm about difference touring with Jane versus doc on Kurt Cobain

Shortlisted doc Unrest debuts on PBS Monday, January 8

Jennifer Brea's film documents her life with ME, sometimes called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. On IDA's red carpet she talks about Oscar honor and takeaways from Unrest

Recy Taylor, subject of documentary on notorious rape case, dies at 97

Director Nancy Buirski told her story of search for justice in The Rape of Recy Taylor

Filmmaker Abigail Disney on why she opposed tax bill that stands to benefit her personally

IDA's Amicus Award recipient speaks out on doc community, and democratic principles

Jane continues doc box office win streak

Brett Morgen's film on primatologist Jane Goodall surpasses $1.37 million 

Jane Goodall with Nonfictionfilm.com editor Matt Carey. Photo by Jackson Gibbon

New York Times: doc legend Sheila Nevins stepping down from HBO

Network executive has shepherded more than a thousand documentaries to the screen. She tells Maureen Dowd, 'I have deprived my life of a life. All I did was work.'

New on Netflix: Errol Morris doc series Wormwood tells true crime story of CIA, secret LSD experiment, and mystery death of bio-weapons man

Director combines archive with dramatizations to investigate ultimate cold (war) case

Morgan Spurlock steps down from Warrior Poets after shocking sexual misconduct confession

Oscar-nominated director volunteers troubling account, including past rape allegation, more recent sexual harassment settlement 

Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

Trailer debuts for HBO doc David Bowie: The Last Five Years

Film by Francis Whately premieres on cable network January 8

Photos from the 33rd IDA Awards [click for more]

IDA Awards: Dina a surprise winner for best doc

​LA 92 wins for archival work; film about nonagenarian interracial couple wins best short

Who made it, who didn't: Academy narrows Oscar doc feature contenders to 15

​Two octogenarians in; kitty cats cut

Photos from LA premiere of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (click for more)

Academy narrows Oscar doc shorts competition to field of 10

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 makes cut, along with several New York Times Op-docs 

AFI Fest: Leon Vitali -- Stanley Kubrick's right-hand man -- comes into focus in Filmworker

Did he sacrifice too much to help Kubrick realize his cinematic vision? Vitali reflects on AFI red carpet

Faces Places named best doc by New York Film Critics Circle

Film by 89-year-old Agnès Varda and 34-year-old JR previously won top doc at Cannes

Brett Morgen's Jane wins best doc honor from National Board of Review

NBR salutes five other docs for excellence, including Hell on Earth, Abacus

Gotham Awards: Yance Ford wins best doc for Strong Island

Director calls out racial bias in justice system during acceptance speech: '[It] makes a mockery of due process'

Diverse slate of docs get love from Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations 

Quest, The Departure and Motherland get big awards season boost

New York Times falls head over heels for 'Bombshell'  Hedy Lamarr doc

Critic Manohla Dargis praises film on star whose beauty was more than equaled by her brilliance

NAACP Image Awards nominate Step, Whose Streets? 

Lee Morgan, Recy Taylor and HBCUs docs in the mix

PGA Awards: best doc nominations go to some unexpected choices

Chasing Coral in the hunt; films overlooked by other groups find themselves in contention

Photos from 31st AFI Fest [click for more]

Errol Morris: Motion Picture Academy 'snubbed' my true-crime story Wormwood

Netflix project runs up against Oscar doc branch's 'O.J.' rule

Photos from AFI Fest Filmmakers reception [click for more]

AFI Fest opens in LA: Errol Morris, Agnès Varda unveil their latest, plus Stanley Kubrick's chief factotum finally gets his due

Festival to screen doc on the overworked, under-appreciated Leon Vitali, film on Sammy Davis Jr. and more

Now streaming on Netflix: Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, John Ridley's doc on LA 'uprising' 

​Oscar winner asks: 'If what happened in Los Angeles 25 years ago was something that built up over time, what's building up right now?'

Top quotes from IDA screening of Rebecca Miller's documentary on her father, Arthur Miller

No. 4: 'I wanted to structure the film on the most important relationships in his life... the father and mother and then the three wives'

Brett Morgen's Jane wins best feature at Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

His doc on Jane Goodall judged tops in a field of 16 contenders

New Bob Dylan doc coming to theaters for one night only 
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Trouble No More features concert footage from Dylan's Gospel music phase

IDA Awards nominations announced: Strong Island a strong contender

But it's a wide open awards season, nominations confirm

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Photo of the day

Miles McLeary, producer of "The Work," at an IDA screening of the documentary in Los Angeles. October 17, 2017. Photo by Matt Carey

Quote of the day
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I was absolutely terrified at the first screening... I was resigned to the audience not getting it. 'It won't be understood.' My fears had just taken me over. But really after the first 10 minutes I started seeing the body language of the room... I started crying. To me, that was the vindication.

--Producer Miles McLeary on The Work, a film about an intense group therapy program inside Folsom Prison

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The reign of Jane: Brett Morgen's latest rules at doc box office

It trades places with last week's number one -- Human Flow

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DEALT opens in L.A. -- story of blind card sensation Richard Turner

Filmmakers provide Audio Description headphones to deal in blind moviegoers 

Record 170 docs in the running for Oscar

Strong Island, Faces Places, Spettacolo, Dina, Jane, The Work among contenders

Of cats of Istanbul, cats of L.A. and even Sylvester the Cat: top quotes from filmmakers at private screening of Kedi

Director Ceyda Torun on how felines view humans: 'They really are aware that we're monkeys'

Jesus Camp directors return with One of Us -- Netflix doc on New York's insular Hasidic community

You want to leave the fold? You'll have to leave your kids behind. 'It is nearly impossible to exit the Hasidic community and start over'

Brett Morgen on his Jane Goodall doc that almost didn't happen: 'Jane and I agreed on one thing -- nobody would ever want to see another film about Jane Goodall'

He calls his film 'a love story, but not in the traditional sense' 

Artist Ai WeiWei travels globe to document massive refugee crisis in Human Flow

​In Nonfictionfilm.com interview he blasts Trump administration for heartless immigration policies: 'America has betrayed its values'

Agnès in the City of Angels: French New Wave great brings new film to L.A. and two classics to American Cinematheque

Two videos and six quotes from Agnès Varda's Egyptian Theatre appearance

Gotham Independent Film Awards nominees announced: docs from Yance Ford and Fred Wiseman in contention

Race in America a theme of three of five nominated docs
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Cats of 'Kedi' returning to theaters -- for one day only!

Ceyda Torun's film on felines of Istanbul will screen on International Cat Day October 29

​Click for bonus video of cats of L.A.

IDA announces first round of nominees for prestigious 2017 awards

Nominations offer some recognition for The Weinstein Co., but not Harvey

Joan Kron, 89, makes directorial debut with Take My Nose... Please! 

Jackie Hoffman, 'Mamacita' from Feud: Bette and Joan, stars in Kron's look at plastic surgery through eyes of female comics

Co-directors on their Sundance grand jury prize-winner Dina: 'There's so many things that happen in the film that are golden moments'

Touching, funny documentary expands to L.A. this weekend.  'I don't think there are many films about 50-year-old sexually- empowered women who are neuro-diverse'
 

Michael Moore denounces Harvey Weinstein hours after Nonfictionfilm.com report questioned his week-long radio silence>>

Moore calls disgraced mogul's behavior "repugnant, abhorrent'; urges change during this 'profound cultural/social/political moment'

Grateful Dead documentary makes 'Long Strange Trip' back to movie theaters

Amir Bar-Lev's 241-minute-long film has won widespread acclaim

Doc box office: five films, including Architects of Denial,  debuted over weekend. This is how they finished.

Kedi leads way as Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominees announced

Ceyda Torun's film about felines of Istanbul claims four noms

New in theaters: Chavela weaves spellbinding tale of extraordinary singer, lesbian icon Chavela Vargas

Mexican cantante captivated audiences and captured Frida Kahlo's heart: ''You hear all these stories of everyone being in love with her, her having all these beautiful affairs'

John Legend, Jesse Williams get behind doc on Olympic champ who took bold stance on medal stand

Magnolia Pictures to bring Jean-Michel Basquiat doc to theaters

Painting by late artist recently sold for $110 mil.

Suffer the children: Cries From Syria paints devastating portrait of civil war and desperate flight to safety

Director Evgeny Afineevsky appears at IDA screening: 'I felt the necessity to tell this story'

Whitney loved him, Aretha praised him, David Foster cussed him out: new doc on the one, the only, the legendary Clive Davis

In Chris Perkel's film, Clive shares stories of Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, Foster, Houston and more: 'I felt more than professional loss [with] Janis. It was personal.'

Swim Team set for Monday premiere on PBS POV. Film offers deep dive on autistic athletes: 'They don't want pity, believe me.'

Director Lara Stolman tells audience at IDA screening: 'It's a film about characters... really fascinating individuals.'

HBO releases trailer for 'unprecedented' doc on Steven Spielberg

Film promises to 'pull back the curtain' on his extraordinary career

Official trailer released for Brett Morgen doc on Jane Goodall

Jane is built around rare 1960s film of Goodall in Tanzania: 'The footage was only recently discovered in a storage unit'

Director Peter Nicks on his visceral documentary The Force: 'The Oakland Police Department was incredibly open. They let us in.'

He documents a force struggling to overcome scarred past, amid deep suspicion: 'We began conceptualizing the film before Black Lives Matter was even a hashtag'
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Four clips from the Nonfictionfilm.com conversation with The Force director Peter Nicks

New in theaters: Jennifer Brea documents her struggle with sudden, devastating illness in Unrest

Don't call it a 'disease documentary,' director tells Nonfictionfilm.com: 'It's an emotional film... It's life-affirming'

New trailer unveiled for doc on recording industry giant Clive Davis

He launched Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, Barry Manilow and reinvigorated Aretha's career 

A family mourns, a killer goes free: race, crime and injustice permeate Netflix doc Strong Island

Director Yance Ford explores her brother's killing in personal, powerful film: 'Empathy is not the point here... I don't need a pat on the back'

New York Times calls Fred Wiseman's latest 'magnificent'

Director's Ex Libris scrolls through New York Public Library

Yance Ford, Abigail Disney among IDA Awards honorees

Ford's Strong Island debuts on Netflix this Friday

Netflix releases trailer for The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

David France's doc about LGBT rights pioneer debuts on streaming platform October 6

Photo: Leonard Fink

Dolores rising: new doc on labor organizer takes top spot at box office

Peter Bratt's film boosted by in-person theatrical tour

Nonfictionfilm.com exclusive: inside Dolores screening in L.A. [click for photos/video]

Labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers union, finally getting recognition, thanks to new documentary

Director Peter Bratt and stars on hand for L.A. Nuart screening of Dolores

Filmmaker Agnès Varda, 89, to receive honorary Oscar

​Her latest documentary, award-winning Faces Places, opens in theaters soon

Photo: Reuters/Eric Gaillard

For Step, a big leap forward

Documentary about girls step dance team hits milestone over Labor Day Weekend

Ken Burns on The Vietnam War: 'It's important now to go back and try and understand it'

Premiere date approaches for fall's most-anticipated nonfiction series. Trump can tell you Vietnam still matters

New trailer released for award-winning doc Bobbi Jene

'Erotic' film about dancer at a crossroads won top honors at Tribeca

IDA reveals lineup for prestigious screening series

Docs on Arthur Miller, Jane Goodall, Grateful Dead, Turkish cats win slots

SXSW adds high-profile talent to 2018 event: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Charlie Rose and more

Intriguing Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth to speak; her magazine has bashed Trump, sparking blowback

New trailer drops for spectacular Spettacolo, doc on Italian town where everyone is an actor and all have roles to play

Film by Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen opens in New York and L.A. in September

Top docs coming to theaters soon

Acclaimed titles include Unrest, Strong Island, Manolo

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Lady Gaga doc coming to theaters and Netflix soon, but TIFF gets first look

Film delves into 'emotional and physical pain' of one of music's top stars: 'Gaga 5'2" is the closest, most intimate look yet inside the world of Stefani Joanne Germanotta' 

Netflix announces release date for doc on Marsha P. Johnson, vital figure in LGBT rights movement

Oscar nominee David France directed the film exploring life, death and legacy of activist known for Stonewall rebellion 

"If you don't 'get' Jerry Lewis, you don't really understand comedy":  Starz to re-air documentary on late comedy legend

Method to the Madness features interviews with Lewis and his admirers, including Jerry Seinfeld, Carol Burnett

Charlottesville battle prompts PBS to re-air docs on Oklahoma City and Ruby Ridge

Incidents are linked by common theme of white rage, resentment

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'Neuro-diverse' Dina charms at Sundance Next Fest

'Beautiful little gem" of a documentary set for theatrical release this fall; Dina herself welcomes acclaim -- 'The movies, the cameras, everything, that's my thing'

New trailer released for Netflix doc Icarus

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Reports: New York Times in Trump era is focus of documentary now in production from Liz Garbus

Trump has repeatedly branded publication "the failing New York Times"; paper maintains running tally of president's lies

Whose Streets? makes timely debut at box office, as Charlottesville white nationalists claim streets as theirs

Sabaah Folayan film can be seen as rebuke to attitudes typified by Trump

On TV tonight: Princess Diana's tragic tale... narrated by Diana herself

Nat Geo's Diana: In Her Own Words is startling, intimate portrait: 'I was able to recognize an inner determination, to survive'

The Last Dalai Lama? director on the struggle over succession: 'His Holiness has said he won't reincarnate'

Mickey Lemle calls China's effort to determine successor 'absurd'

'Dazzling': rave reviews greet space doc The Farthest

Film by Emer Reynolds on the Voyager space program hailed as 'out of this world'

The documentary as thriller: Icarus takes audience on gripping investigation into Russian doping scandal

Director Bryan Fogel tells Nonfictionfilm.com the moviemaking ride jacked his adrenalin levels: 'My head was spinning and my heart was palpitating'

Cannes prize-winner Faces Places placed in New York Film Festival lineup 

Doc by Agnès Varda and artist JR hailed as 'exquisite, achingly moving'

An Inconvenient Sequel makes a mint as film goes wide

So why is Fox News calling Al Gore-driven doc a 'bomb'?

Al Gore's 'Inconvenient' doc captures box office crown

The sequel to An Inconvenient Truth hailed as worthy successor to the Oscar-winning original

Fate of Greenland, fate of Earth: new documentary Stella Polaris illuminates impact of climate change

Filmmaker Yatri Niehaus explores effect of retreating ice on glacial country: 'I was so awestruck by the Greenlandic landscape'

Doc box office: Matthew Heineman no. 1, in a repeat performance

His City of Ghosts is on a winning streak

The Nonfictionfilm.com interview with Jeffrey Schwarz, director of doc on 'fabulous' producer Allan Carr -- he lived large and partied hard: 'He definitely participated in the swinging 70s era...  and he was openly gay in his circle'

And that 1989 Academy Awards fiasco? 'He was going to have the biggest, most spectacular... opening number in Oscar history'

Outfest: singer-YouTuber Todrick Hall follows yellow brick road to fame

New film documents creation of his show Strait Outta Oz: 'I've always wanted to run away and meet these cool people and find this person that could help me -- like the wizard'

Outfest: Dream Boat docks in LA for American premiere

Director talks with Nonfictionfilm.com in Berlin: 'The guests prepare for months for this cruise... people come with a lot of hopes and dreams and expectations'

Outfest 2017: new doc paints affectionate portrait of caftan-clad Allan Carr

The producer  triumphed with Grease, crashed with Snow White-Rob Lowe: 'He made such a huge impact on popular culture'

Cheyenne, Andie, Maxwell, Bruce: exclusive photos from Outfest 2017

Director Matthew Heineman talks City of Ghosts and graphic images: 'I didn't want to shy away from the violence. I think that would have been an injustice...'  

He joins Syrian hero journalist featured in his film for conversation with Nonfictionfilm.com

City of Ghosts materializes at number one

Matthew Heineman film documents Syrian citizen journalists who dared report on ISIS

Outfest 2017: new documentary explores Kevyn Aucoin,  'greatest makeup artist who ever lived'

Director Lori Kaye draws on Aucoin's never-before-seen home videos with dazzling beauties: 'Ohmygod, there's Naomi and there's Andie MacDowell. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.'

Brian Knappenberger's First Amendment doc triggers heated debate at Hollywood screening

Panelists blast Trump after showing of Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press. Audience member calls them "snowflakes" and "left-wing fascists"

He talks Elsa Dorfman, Lincoln, the Interrotron, and whether photographs tell the truth

The camera is magic: Errol Morris on the portrait photography of his friend Elsa Dorfman

He celebrates an under-appreciated talent in The B-Side: 'This is a really gifted artist... She's effortlessly profound'

Monkey shines: Disney nature film reborn as new number one doc

Top five include jazzy film and latest from Steve James

Hot wheels: new doc on roller dancers who created phenomenon on Venice Beach

Roller Dreams director Kate Hickey captures a golden moment fated not to last: for the dancers 'it was a place they could come and be free... and really let their freak flag fly' 

Cinema vérité, par excellence: documentary Two Four Six tells visual story of hoop dreams and Haiti's future

Directorial debut of Leyla Nedorosleva premieres at LA Film Festival

LA Film Festival: doc premieres on the couple who created a hand drawn icon

Ema Ryan Yamazaki's film explores the origins of Curious George: 'I actually grew up in Japan reading the books. I assumed he was a Japanese monkey.'

LA Film Festival awards announced: top honors go to Liyana and Skid Row Marathon

The Classic earns recognition for storytelling

LA Film Festival: A 'Classic' doc about a high school football rivalry, with much more at stake than a single game

Billy McMillin makes directorial debut with film about Garfield vs. Roosevelt High, and a community's struggle to make it in America

NFF exclusive: Photos from 2017 LA Film Festival

LA Film Festival: Skid Row Marathon follows  long-distance journey toward redemption

Judge Craig Mitchell set up a running club for the city's down-and-out, with remarkable results

LA Film Festival premieres Liyana, 'hybrid' film where documentary and fiction intertwine

Young Swazi orphans play key role crafting the story

LA Film Festival: Abu premieres just in time for Father's Day

Doc by Arshad Khan tells a story of family, faith and sexuality

AFI Docs: Powerful drug war film where masked figures tell the story

​La Libertad del Diablo reveals psychological toll of unfathomable violence

Abacus by the numbers

Steve James returns with doc on Chinese-American-owned  bank that faced prosecution from  2008 financial meltdown: 'I think there was racism involved'

Disneynature latest a big hit at box office. But it will have a hard time catching March of the Penguins

Look out, Donald Trump -- Michael Moore is coming after you

Filmmaker launches Trumpileaks, invites whistleblowers to reveal dirt on the president. And he prepares Trump doc Fahrenheit 11/9: '...expected to be key in dissolving Trump’s "teflon" shield and, in turn, his presidency.'

'In war no one is innocent': New doc on Sri Lanka's bloody past makes world premiere at Cannes

Jude Ratnam went from human rights activist to director of Demons in Paradise: 'I never thought I'd make films'

Cannes premiere: doc on man who went from actor to Stanley Kubrick's indispensable aide-de-camp

Filmworker celebrates unsung role of Leon Vitali in vital works of cinema: 'Even his kids didn't know what he did. Nobody knew.'

Candid Cannes: photos from the street

There's a lot to see during the festival beyond what's strictly on the screen

Happy birthday, Agnès! Cannes awards top documentary prize to Agnès Varda, days before her 89th

L'oeil d'or goes to Visages Villages, her collaboration with photographer JR

Cary Grant revealed as never before in new doc from Cannes

Mark Kidel's film explores actor's longterm experiment with LSD: 'He did it, he reckoned, about a hundred times'

People-watching in Cannes

Glamour is not the sole province of the stars during the 11 days of the festival

Clint, Robin, Jessica, Will: Photos from 70th Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival: Vanessa Redgrave's cri de coeur over Europe's refugee crisis

The acting legend makes her directorial debut with documentary Sea Sorrow

New doc on Chelsea Manning announced as 70th Cannes Film Festival gets underway

Manning released from military prison in Kansas same day XY Chelsea project is revealed on the Côte d'Azur

Tribeca doc on  wrongfully convicted men, who now seek justice for all

Jamie Meltzer's True Conviction heading to PBS next; filmmaker hails 'resilience' of men who spent combined 60 years behind bars

Roly-poly pandas on a roll at box office

Risk comes in second, with help from Laura Poitras personal appearances

A legend's LSD experiment: new doc on Cary Grant joins Cannes Classics lineup 

Festival announces five docs including one about Grant's use of drug to 'free himself from his demons'

Tribeca dispatch: documentary I Am Evidence makes case for urgent reform of sexual assault investigation process

Film produced by Mariska Hargitay says first step is attacking massive backlog of untested rape kits

Of Rodney King, James Mincey, Daryl Gates, Bobby Green: new doc from Oscar-winner John Ridley on the LA Riots

Ridley poses question, 'If what happened in Los Angeles 25 years ago was something that built up over time, what's building up right now?'

Tribeca Film Festival awards announced: top doc goes to Bobbi Jene

​Film about American dancer wins three awards. True Conviction earns special mention

Panda power at doc box office: Disney's latest nature film opens to big business

Born in China tips Kedi cats from number one

Justin, John, Kathryn, Zac & Iman: Photos from the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival [click for more]

April surprise! Hillary Clinton appears at Tribeca to argue for Earth Day, science and saving Africa's elephants: 'Stop the killing, stop the trafficking'

She praises Kathryn Bigelow for her VR project on rangers pitted against ivory-poaching 'ruthless killers'

World premiere at Tribeca for ELIÁN, doc on shipwrecked boy who became 'pawn' in international custody battle

Now 23, Elián speaks in Tim Golden's film: 'We didn't provide any questions before the interview. There were no Cuban officials in the room.'

AP photo by Alan Diaz

Steve James releases first trailer for new doc Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Film focuses on bank founded by Chinese immigrant -- the only lender to face criminal prosecution from 2008 mortgage crisis: 'This case is an attack on our community. We're easy prey.'
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Tribeca 2017 gets underway with night of music and documentary film

Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow and more perform after world premiere of Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives; Whoopi Goldberg offers services as emcee, and Clive's next protégée.
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Documentary box office: Kedi curls up at number one

Docs on James Baldwin, John Coltrane and David Lynch factor into top five

Tribeca set to open Wednesday: festival docs leave no stone unturned, including Roger Stone

Trump bagman a focus of one documentary title. Others put spotlight on Clive Davis, Whitney Houston, Heath Ledger, Elián González, LA Riots and more.

Tribeca announces jurors for 2017 festival: two-time Oscar winner in the mix

Famous names prepare for jury duty starting next week

Doc powerhouse ITVS and Norman Lear set for major Peabody honors

Independent Television Service recognized for 'foundational place' in furthering documentary film

New doc Tickling Giants reveals what happens when the 'Egyptian Jon Stewart' takes on the powerful

Bassem Youssef on Trump embracing Egypt's strongman and what America can learn from repressive regimes: 'You need a good 20 years to develop a real worthy... dictatorship'

Lauren Greenfield opens powerful Generation Wealth exhibit in LA; 'It's about the influence of affluence'

Multimedia show precedes feature doc coming later this year: 'I was convinced that now is the time to hold a mirror up to ourselves'

Ex-Madonna dancers who gained fame in Truth or Dare, return with new doc Strike a Pose

​Core group reflects on defining time in their lives: 'There was a whole other backstage that you didn't get to see, that none of us were ready to talk about' 

SF International Film Festival opens this week in the City by the Bay: 'Our location is such a defining force'

Doc lineup includes mysterious "surprise secret screening." What's up with that? 'All will be revealed on the evening'

Kedi cats rule doc box office

Director of film about felines of Istanbul: 'All kinds of cats... roam the city, free, without a human master'

Sand men, snow women and more: Vimeo staff picks enchant at SXSW

Filmmakers provide "live screening" commentary in Austin. One reveals seagulls stole her props; another marvels at Scandinavia's mountains, 'It's Norway. You should go.'

Syrian-themed docs dominate at CPH:DOX

The Last Men in Aleppo from Firas Fayyad wins festival's top prize

Frank Oz on his new Muppet documentary, and surprising words about himself: 'I didn't think I was any good whatsoever'

The legend behind Miss Piggy and Cookie Monster comes to SXSW for his film's world premiere, plus a chat with fans

The cats of Kedi take over the doc box office

Turkish felines rule for second week in a row

Muppet Guys talking... and laughing at SXSW

A good time is had at the world premiere of the Muppet documentary, where anything can trigger a laugh, including a dropped mike

Julia, Garth, Stormtrooper, Melissa: top photos from 2017 SXSW. Click for more

SXSW audience awards announced: Armistead Maupin doc a winner

Dealt is dealt a winning hand by fans; Judd Apatow grabs two audience awards

Top random comments overheard at SXSW: 'I had a plan and now you're hijacking my plan!'

Snippets from the street and other venues; what Julia Louis-Dreyfus had to say to the crowd about her hoop-dreamin' son

Spectacular Spettacolo debuts at SXSW: doc on Tuscan village that turns its problems into art

Director Jeff Malmberg: 'I would hear tourists say, "Is this a real town? Where are the shops?" Not thinking a hill town might actually be inhabited by people.'

Here's to the winners: SXSW Film grand jury prizes announced

The Work and Little Potato saluted for powerful storytelling; Nanfu Wang wins two awards

SXSW update: director Jennifer Kroot on her Armistead Maupin doc

SXSW update: Todrick Hall previews new doc on his life, career

Bulletin from SXSW: director Katherine Fairfax Wright on her Todrick Hall doc

Bulletin from SXSW: director Jeff Malmberg on his doc Spettacolo

Dang! These dudes are awesome. The duo from California Dreams unveil their hilarious film at SXSW

Director Mike Ott to his star Cory Zacharia: 'You're a total liar all the time. You're always lying.'
 

SXSW underway in Texas capital. Of Paramount importance: full details on the doc lineup, from a Bond who called it quits to Tuscany's most unusual town

Nanfu Wang unveils Hooligan Sparrow follow up; Muppeteers tell all; Barbecue served on screen

Doc box office: Kedi cats charm moviegoers. But Raoul Peck's dynamo reigns

​IANYN crosses $5.5 mil mark in a matter of weeks

New Scientology documentary: actors and 'apostates' put unflattering spotlight on church

British journalist behind film says church put private investigators on him, 'tried to hack my emails'

Lessons in cinema, lessons in life from men at heart of Fire at Sea

Oscar-nominated director Gianfranco Rosi: 'I always say there's a thousand positions you can put your camera in; only one is right.'

I Am Not Your Negro producers on the meaning of the film: 'It's about the experience of "the other." It's about the experience of finding out how you fit in society.'

They address alleged 'vote brigading' campaign against the Oscar-nominated doc: 'It was a bit unsettling'

Academy Awards behind him, Oscar nominee Dan Krauss plots his next move(s)

He compares the Oscars to a wedding; why he found awards season 'thrilling and also odd'

No Oscar trophy for I Am Not Your Negro, but it takes gold at the box office

Raoul Peck's film surges past $4.5 mil. Hébert Peck reflects on IANYN's international success: 'At some point we knew we had something'

Academy Awards: Ezra Edelman's O.J. Simpson doc and The White Helmets prevail 

Edelman reflects backstage on 'trial of the century': 'It's sports, sex, murder. It has everything.'

The story on why the Trump administration barred 'Helmets' cinematographer from reaching U.S. for ceremony; director and producer want light shining on 'heroes in the heart of our film'

SXSW announces doc jury members

Meet six men and women who will be kept very busy in Austin, TX

Berlin Film Festival: gay cruise doc Dream Boat -- skin and sex, yes, and something unexpected

Director tells NFF: 'This was the idea for the film... to look behind the surface'

I Am Not Your Negro set for Berlinale premiere, as film powers ahead at North American box office

Raoul Peck film is seen as target of 'vote brigading' from retrograde opponents

Berlin Film Festival opens, with dozens of docs in play

Dream Boat, Devil's Liberty and many more compete for
​€ 50,000 prize

Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville launches new Netflix series on extraordinary designers

Brilliant Christoph Niemann is among eight creators profiled: 'My goal is to speak visuals like a pianist speaks piano'

Strong debut for Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro

James Baldwin doc takes top spot at box office

Big weekend for Ezra Edelman, Roger Ross Williams

With wins at two awards shows, filmmakers gain momentum heading into Oscar homestretch

Pres. Trump, instead of watching Finding Dory, experience Watani: My Homeland

Marcel Mettelsiefen's Oscar-nominated film humanizes the plight of Syria's refugees

At Sundance, director Stanley Nelson urges resistance in times of Trump: 'You can't self-censor... You have to tell the truth'

Acclaimed filmmaker warns of 'takeover by the extreme right'

Jay Z and Harvey Weinstein bring Kalief Browder story to Sundance

Jay Z on the Browder tragedy: 'What was done to him was a huge injustice'

'My eyes have an eye ache,' 'Can I go back to the food?': Top  comments overheard at Sundance

​Random snippets can prove quite  intriguing: 'I mean, so many questions! What happens to her?'

Photos from Sundance 2017

Why are Jay Z and Harvey Weinstein blurry... and who are those cute kids?

Sundance latest: Whose Streets? grips festival with visceral story from Ferguson, Missouri; a famed filmmaker drops out, and Kristen Stewart goes for a 'swim'

Donald Trump once again a focus of serious discussion

Sundance shrugs off Trump on eve of his inauguration

Redford: 'Presidents come and go. The pendulum swings back and forth.'

Exuberant KIKI coming to theaters, VOD

​Film about LGBTQ youth of color and the NYC ballroom scene won acclaim at Sundance

This Palestinian boy will melt your heart

Eight-year-old Yousef Rajabi is the star of an Oscar shortlisted short documentary 

Sundance adds doc on Trump's election: 'greatest politial upset of all time'

Film comes from team behind Game Change and Showtime's The Circus

Why is this girl smiling? You would too if you were dominating the doc box office

Berlinale moving forward on lineup announcements, as city copes with suspected terrorist attack

First Berlinale docs revealed: Casting JonBenet books passage to German capital

Acclaimed O.J. doc returning to theaters, TV screens

Director Ezra Edelman tells Nonfictionfilm.com he and Simpson are 'very, very, very, very, very, very different people'

At IDA Awards, filmmakers promise defiance against Trumpian dystopia

Norman Lear warns audience:  get ready to 'fight our asses off' 

Winning smiles: photos from the 32nd Annual IDA Awards

The year's most acclaimed nonfiction filmmakers gather on the Paramount lot in Hollywood

Oscar doc shortlist announced: who made it, and who didn't

Race films recognized; some acclaimed filmmakers left out

LA Film Critics Awards: surprise win for I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck film had been running behind O.J. for earlier awards

O.J. in driver's seat this awards season?

Ezra Edelman film on Simpson continues hot streak

Big win for O.J. Simpson doc at Gotham Awards

Second prize in November for Ezra Edelman's mega-film

Fox to host 2016 IDA Awards

Kill Bill actress takes over from Tig Notaro

As Magnus Carlsen defends World Chess Championship title, new doc explores his rise

Director Benjamin Ree on the 'Mozart of Chess': 'He is a modern icon of creative thinking'

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Sweet freedom: San Antonio Four declared innocent at last 

Documentary Southwest of Salem played key role in their exoneration

IDFA awards announced: top prize goes to film set in Iraqi town menaced by ISIS

​Nowhere to Hide left jury 'deeply touched'

Awards season update: doc nominees for PGA Awards and Independent Spirit Awards announced

Docs on O.J., James Baldwin, Russian dancer, eagle huntress and more make cut

Doc NYC premiere: the woman who became FDNY's first openly trans firefighter

IDFA premiere: The Cinema Travellers takes charm to Amsterdam after win at Hawaii festival

Ex-Fugee Pras Michel foresaw Trump's political rise to power

Musician got a celebrity outsider elected president of Haiti, and believed the same thing could happen here

Hawaii a paradise for doc lovers this month

Honolulu=based festival gives starring roles to Brando and Mifune biographical films

Gripping Fire at Sea catches fire with critics; nominated for two major documentary awards this week

Director Gianfranco Rosi tells Nonfictionfilm.com 'I put myself in this incredible labyrinth and then have to be able to find my way out'

SXSW brings moveable feast to LA

Party draws doc stars on same day SXSW 2017 schedule goes live

Weiner could be a winner at IDA Awards

Doc on disgraced Congressman in running for top doc award. Films on race in America, the art and ethics of cinematography and a Berlinale winner also in contention

Box office horse race: which equine doc finished on top?

Two new docs also factor in top five: We Are X and The Uncondemned  

Heavy weapons, lethal force: police militarization exposed in Do Not Resist

Craig Atkinson's new film gets at widespread perception that 'officers view citizens like enemy combatants'

Shake it up, baby! A new number one at doc box office

Tower breaks into top five in debut weekend

Fascinating New York Times Op-Doc explores many "sad fates" of Phillip Toledano

Joshua Seftel film reveals how far one artist went to explore his future: 'This project was about the darkest things he could fathom'

PBS POV to air Hooligan Sparrow, documentary on brave defender of China's most vulnerable

Director Nanfu Wang: 'Some of my friends  say, "Why are you exposing things like this? You are creating a negative image of our society."'

God and the Devil factor into box office top five

Plus Donald Trump gets a bit of a lift from anti-Hillary film

New doc on prisoner-turned-poet Jimmy Santiago Baca -- what he overcame is astounding

A Place to Stand plays  Awareness Film Fest in LA. Director Daniel Glick: 'He is one of the most dramatic examples of human transformation I have ever seen'

IDA set to honor Norman Lear, Stanley Nelson, more at upcoming awards show

Lear is subject of documentary about to debut on PBS

HBO doc measures class divide in New York: precisely 115 steps

Marc Levin film explores hyper-gentrification in Chelsea and what it signifies for the US as a whole

Command and Control: Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser bring scariest movie of the year

Remember the time we almost annihilated Arkansas? Or the other time we almost blew up North Carolina? Yeah, that happened.

Directors Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn on their Amanda Knox doc: 'A human story about people at the heart of this tragic event'

Netflix film debuts today; critics love it, but some on Twitter find fault

Righting the wrong done to the San Antonio Four: new documentary presses case for innocence

Southwest of Salem director Deborah Esquenazi on her true crime film where no crime was committed: misogyny and homophobia led to their conviction 

IDA'S Getting Real conference opens; Nick Fraser takes down All Governments Lie

Ezra Edelman gets real on his OJ Simpson opus and why he wasn't out to retry the case

How can you beat The Beatles? This Australian Christian group has, two weeks in a row

Going deep with 'Cameraperson' Kirsten Johnson

The acclaimed cinematographer explores her life's work in new film: 'When I'm shooting I want to know you... I want more.'

Battle of the bands: The Beatles vs. Hillsong UNITED

Docs on musical groups compete for No. 1 at box office. So which band won?

TIFF Audience Award goes to James Baldwin doc

Leonardo DiCaprio-fronted film a runner-up

Op-Docs explosion: New York Times unveiling four new shorts

'Mr. Toledano' among the quartet of impressive films

New York Times raises ethical questions about 'JT LeRoy' doc 

Director Jeff Feuerzeig defends his filmmaking choices to Times reporter

Box office success for controversial 'hoax' film JT LeRoy Story

But celebrities implicated in the literary scandal tell New York Times they aren't happy

Big Emmy weekend for Netflix series Making a Murderer

Matthew Heineman, Liz Garbus also celebrating Emmy wins; Keith David scores third Emmy

Hot men of TIFF: Leonardo DiCaprio and Justin Timberlake docs turn heads in Toronto

 DiCaprio's environmental film spurs Oscar talk

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Bono deceived? Gus Van Sant too? Say it ain't so!

New doc on literary scam of the century

Jeff Feuerzeug talks to Nonfictionfilm.com about his 'subjective' film on Laura Albert: 'Sometimes out of madness... great art can happen'

Dinesh D'Souza is back on top of doc box office

​He Tweeted irritation at Nonfictionfilm.com over last week's b.o. report. What's wrong with the reasoning in his film? Click here

Berlinale creates major prize for documentary filmmakers

Netflix picks 'Street Fight'

Company begins streaming famed doc on Cory Booker's rise to political power

TIFF news: Toronto adds concert doc on music superstar Leehom Wang

Festival calls Rochester, New York native one of world's biggest pop stars

Documentarian Fred Wiseman to get honorary Oscar

Award recognizes a career spanning 50 years, 40+ films

Top six things learned in master class with Fred Wiseman

No. 4: "Editing is really talking to yourself." No. 5: Vaseline vs. chicken soup

Lo and behold! Werner Herzog doc rises at box office

Anti-Hillary Clinton doc slips to third

Kingdom of Shadows to debut on PBS' POV

Bernardo Ruiz documentary explores Mexican drug war from three perspectives

Hillary Clinton and Werner Herzog get good news at doc box office

TIFF adds three docs at last minute, one on mysterious anti-virus mogul John McAfee

Festival also makes room for doc on late guitarist Terry Kath, directed by his daughter

Tony Robbins on his motivational program: 'It’s the completely opposite of a cult'
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He stars in new Netflix doc from director Joe Berlinger 

A tale of two pantsuits: is Hillary truly a purple menace, or a savior in white?

Per no. 1 doc in America: she's a purple people eater 

Why Olivia Wilde may not be wild about doc lineup at the Austin Film Festival

AFF slate includes Monogamish and Cannes favorite Gimme Danger

For Hillary Clinton, good news at polls, bad news at box office

Doc by Dinesh D'Souza remains thorn in her side

TIFF reveals dynamic doc lineup: DiCaprio, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and more

Films on Amanda Knox case and the Beatles also make cut

A Hitch in time: HBO debuts doc on famous conversation between two cinema legends

Film reveals many secrets, including how actors reacted to Hitchcock's directorial technique

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New doc on man who beaded Hollywood women, and bedded Hollywood men

Orry-Kelly's story told by one of Australia's most acclaimed directors

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice gets promised theatrical release

August 5 debut coincides with start of Rio Games

Stones rolling to Toronto for TIFF world premiere

Jonathan Demme's Justin Timberlake doc also TIFFward bound

Alex Gibney blows the lid off Nitro Zeus and stuxnet in new doc 'thriller'

Zero Days reveals frightening escalation of cyber warfare programs

Important new role for Oscar-winner Roger Ross Williams

He joins Steven Spielberg on one of Hollywood's most prominent boards

Anti-Hillary Clinton doc finds traction at box office

Dinesh D'Souza film blasted by critics as "cheesy," spurious 

Norman Lear doc jets into top 10

Click for top five at doc box office

Cinematic greats [don't call them legends] Hegedus & Pennbaker return with animal rights doc

Unlocking the Cage may free your mind about the personhood of all sentient beings

PBS to air controversial sex offender doc Pervert Park

Scandinavian co-directors thought film might never reach wider American audience

A horse and a horse's ass are doc box office best

​And the crown for the top film over the holiday weekend goes to...

Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams brings Life, Animated to life

Doc tells stunning story of Owen Suskind, autistic youth who learned to communicate through Disney animated films

Flying through the air with the greatest of ease: new doc on art of trapeze

Tom Moore film traces history of trapeze from Jules Léotard to the First Family of  the Air 

Riveting doc on one of America's most famous murder cases

Brother of Kitty Genovese re=investigates her death in James Solomon film The Witness

Morgan Neville on his new doc about Cellist Ma: 'People don't actually know Yo-Yo'

They travel the Silk Road in cross-cultural musical journey

Dana Delany hosts TV Academy Honors; awards go to anti-Scientology doc and more

Delany reveals Scientology tried to recruit her decades ago

LA Film Festival: Political Animals takes top doc awards

Film explores fundamental role four women have played in LGBT rights movement

Exclusive photos from the 2016 LA Film Festival

Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, Derek Hallquist, Morgan Neville, Roger Ross Williams and more

Weiner a winner at  doc box office

Josh Kriegman-Elyse Steinberg film took top doc prize at Sundance

Blockbuster book by famed French economist to become a doc

Thomas Piketty reveals what part he'll play in adaptation of Capital in the 21st Century; praises Bernie, disses Trump

Twenty-two years old and already the subject of a doc: new film on compelling skateboard whiz Thalente Biyela

​He went from homeless in South Africa to success in the U.S.

l'Oeil d'or goes to Brazilian doc Cinema Novo; The Cinema Travelers also honored

Cinema Novo director dedicates award to people resisting 'coup' in Brazil: They're 'fighting for democracy'

Cannes: Laura Poitras premieres Risk to standing ovation

Follow up to citizenfour documents Wikileaks' Julian Assange; Lady Gaga makes cameo

Cannes: The Cinema Travelers takes viewers on wondrous journey across India

Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya direct doc in competition for L'Oeil d'or

Gallery of exclusive photos from Cannes

Can you spot all the Oscar winners? There are at least five of them. 

Cannes premiere for doc on Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Oscar-winner Fisher Stevens directs intimate film about famed mother and daughter; says Carrie got "buyer's remorse"

Cannes' 'Golden Eye' trained on docs: 17 in competition

Laura Poitras takes Risk to the festival

The color of Cannes: photos from the festival

New doc on Yitzhak Rabin: He dared to give peace a chance

Director Erez Laufer on constructing his film from Rabin's words alone; his take on Netanyahu's response to notorious assassination

Rabin leads doc surge at box office

More than a dozen new nonfiction films heading to theaters, streaming services

Tyrus: new doc on man who created look of Bambi

Director Pamela Tom celebrates 105-year-old artist: "He transforms ugliness into beauty"

Nonfiction TV: PBS to air Amy Berg's Janis Joplin doc

Berg on working with the singer's younger siblings: 'They have access to everything that she left behind'

Tribeca doc prize winners announced

Film on alarming police militarization wins top award

New doc on "endlessly interesting, fascinating" David Hockney

Randall Wright film on brilliant artist opens in NYC/LA Friday, April 22

Fashion first at doc box office

Libertarians and the left wing both represented in top six

New doc on people saddled with history's most notorious name

Matt Ogens' film answers why some  Hitlers decline to change their name

Vexing Vaxxed sticks needle in box office

​Film banished from Tribeca Film Festival finds way to theaters

New doc on Robert Mapplethorpe takes intimate look at his life, transgressive art

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato direct film on photographer who 'fused the idea of artistry and commercial success'

SXSW: I Am the Blues goes down to the crossroads

Director explores the music's roots and some of the Blues'  little-known greats

SXSW: doc premieres on Kickstarter king who's made a fortune on Dungeons & Dragons campaigns

Josh Bishop directs film on artist and entrepreneur Stefan Pokorny

Austin ​says hello to Goodnight Brooklyn

Matt Conboy's SXSW doc tells the story of the demise of a beloved underground music club

SXSW: doc Learning to See trains sights on Amazon's extraordinary creatures

Jake Oelman on his experience filming insects: "It was eye-opening. It was humbling and ultimately very cool."

Exclusive images from the 2016 SXSW Film Festival

The venues, the parties, the people, the stars

Film on notorious campus shooting wins SXSW top prize

These C*cksucking Tears takes doc short award

SXSW opens: thousands descend on Austin for 30th edition of festival

Docs on Burt Reynolds, Richard Linklater; Ellen Page keynotes film conference

Gallery of photos from 2016 SXSW

HBO airs "autobiographical" doc on late Mike Nichols

"Here's to You, Mrs. Roosevelt" and other stories revealed 

New doc on Hannah Arendt, who coined the term "the banality of evil"

She remains controversial for her famed article on Adolf Eichmann

Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees celebrate Oscar win for Amy

"This film has opened people's eyes to her again," producer says backstage

Michael Moore plants flag atop box office

Berlinale: Documentary wins Golden Bear

Gianfranco Rosi's film Fuocoammare takes festival's top prize

Asif Kapadia on his journey to make Amy: "In the beginning no one wanted to talk to me."

Berlinale: Festival showcases doc on perhaps greatest American photographer of the 20th century

Laura Israel film explores brilliant Robert Frank

Berlin Film Festival opens; dozens of docs on tap

Alex Gibney to unveil his stuxnet virus film Zero Days in competition

Gallery of images from 66th Berlinale

The European Film Market: if you want to get a film made or seen, you need to know about it

ro*co films international exec explains what the EFM is all about

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66th Berlinale: Tilda Swinton unveils doc on John Berger

Days after attending Hail, Caesar! premiere, she hails her friend, the extraordinary writer, filmmaker and artist

Black Panthers and Muhammad Ali docs honored at NAACP Image Awards

Sundance prizes announced: Weiner and Sonita win big

Awards also go to We Are X, Trapped, Jim: The James Foley Story, and more

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Filmmaker learns if you want to promote peace in the Middle East, you may have to form a band

Sundance late add: doc on Mike Nichols

Becoming Mike Nichols based on interviews he did months before his death

Matthew Heineman gains prominent support for drug war doc

Bullets flew as he made award-winning Cartel Land

Amy claims another critics award

Asif Kapadia's film is rated year's best by LA, DC and now Chicago critics

The Look of Silence director: U.S.  'participated' in Indonesian genocide

Joshua Oppenheimer assails U.S. foreign police in IDA acceptance speech

Reconsidering Brando: Stevan Riley's doc restores the actor's reputation

Sundance adds to doc lineup

Premieres section features films by Werner Herzog, D.A. Pennebaker and Spike Lee's Michael Jackson doc

Oscar shortlist: animated doc in running

​Last Day of Freedom won IDA Award

Of war and Ware

Ex-CNN journalist Michael Ware's new Iraq doc: journey into heart of darkness

Nonfictionfilm.com exclusive:
Pras Michel on his new doc and Donald Trump

"Do not underestimate that," Pras says of Trump phenomenon

Gone 45 years: Janis Joplin returns in Amy Berg film

Berg deplores gender bias of "27 Club"

Top 6 things learned from Davis Guggenheim

No. 4: The technique he used to get Al Gore to open up

Laurie Anderson on Heart of a Dog: "It's been thrown in doc land. It's not really that." 

Oscars: Gore Vidal-William F. Buckley Jr. doc makes shortlist

Best of Enemies' Morgan Neville: "We didn't balance it just for the sake of balancing it"

Nina's song: Liz Garbus on her extraordinary portrait of Miss Simone

Stanley Nelson on making his Black Panthers doc: "It was now or never"

Dreamcatcher: one woman's fight to save Chicago's vulnerable girls

Kim Longinotto doc stars the amazing Brenda Myers-Powell

Timely doc on infamous racial shooting case

Director Marc Silver: "When we were in edit Ferguson happened."