This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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E. Jean Carroll Is Telling Her Story in a Documentary. Will It Find a Buyer?
The film, from Ivy Meeropol, will play Telluride. But as distributors pull back from nonfiction titles, especially political ones, a release isn’t certain.
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Venice Film Festival: ‘Megalopolis’ Documentary Reveals Coppola’s Biggest Conflict
Cameras captured the director and his crew at work and at odds, as well as his fraught dynamic with cast member Shia LaBeouf.
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‘Vice Is Broke’ Review: The Rise and Crash of a Fleeting Empire
This documentary by Eddie Huang is an angry but loving lament about the Montreal zine that became a billion-dollar empire before hurtling toward bankruptcy.
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MoMA Film Series: Reclaiming New Orleans, 20 Years After Katrina
The Museum of Modern Art’s When the World Broke Open: Katrina and Its Afterlives takes a cinematic look at the city and its people over the past century.
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Venice Film Festival: A Director’s Quest for the Truth About Her Father’s Abduction
Jihan K’s new documentary is about the 1993 disappearance of her father, an exiled leader of the opposition against the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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‘Magic City’ Docuseries Explores Atlanta Strip Club’s Impact
Nelly’s “Tip Drill” video from 2003 was instantly controversial. It’s one of many stories explored in a new docuseries about Magic City in Atlanta.
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Unreleased Beatles Demos and Footage to Be Shared This Fall
This episode goes behind the scenes of the 1995 documentary; new mixes of “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” are coming out; and an updated book is due.
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Joel DeMott, Whose Documentary Was Rejected by PBS, Dies at 78
Her “Seventeen,” a study of teenagers later recognized as a major work of cinéma vérité, was pulled from a public TV series in 1982 under pressure from its sponsor.
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‘Checkpoint Zoo’ Review: Operation Animal Rescue
This documentary retraces the heart-rending evacuation of animals from an outdoor zoo near the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine War.
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‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow’ Review: Strangling Democracy
One of the year’s most towering achievements is a documentary about Russian independent journalism being wiped out in real time.
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Netflix Signs New, Looser Deal With Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The streaming giant signed a new deal with the production company for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that is much less extensive than an earlier arrangement.