Shaped by early hip-hop culture, his documentaries put race in the foreground, whether the topic was hip-hop fashion, the Capitol riots or Louis Armstrong.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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Misery Loves Company? Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair Hits a Nerve.
Movies that are major downers, it turns out, are a big film festival draw. “Sometimes the world is such that you just need to wallow a little bit.”
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James Grashow Documentary Focuses on Life, Death and ‘The Cathedral’
The process of making a wood sculpture of Jesus Christ took the artist James Grashow four years to complete.
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When the Whole Country Watched a Nuclear War Movie at Once
The 1983 ABC movie “The Day After” was a landmark moment that proved contentious even before it aired, as a new documentary shows.
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The Best True Crime to Stream: Dramatizations That Deliver
Across television, film and podcast, here are four picks that successfully give well-known true-crime stories the scripted treatment.
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Marcel Ophuls, ‘The Sorry and the Pity’ Director, Dies at 97
He was best-known for “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi occupation.
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Michael Roemer, Maker of Acclaimed but Little-Seen Films, Dies at 97
His “Nothing but a Man” and “The Plot Against Harry” drew critical praise but never found an audience. He said he took “a certain pride in not having been a success.”
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A New Pee-wee Herman Documentary Peeks Inside the Playhouse
Paul Reubens’s performance as Pee-wee Herman gave fans “license to be weird.” At an underground cabaret, he cheered on his community of renegades.
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Review: ‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Finds the Man Behind the Man-Child
This fascinating though incomplete documentary tells Paul Reubens’s story despite the subject’s doubts about the project.
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Who Took the ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo?
Questions about the credit for a famous photograph from the Vietnam War have divided the photojournalism community for months.
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‘Deaf President Now!’ and the Biases of a Hearing World
The documentary recalls the 1988 protests that erupted at Gallaudet University when trustees rejected deaf candidates to lead it.