This documentary shows the highlights of the recording session for the charity song “We Are the World,” which assembled a who’s who of pop celebrities.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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Sundance Film Festival Ends With Plenty of Sales, Despite Slow Start
The festival, seen as a barometer for the overall health of the film industry, featured several movies and documentaries snatched up by studios and streaming services.
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Sundance Documentaries: ‘Eternal You,’ ‘Ibelin’ and More
Festival documentaries ranged across the genre map, but several explored the lengths we’ll go to communicate with lost loved ones.
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Why the Documentary Oscar Race Is the Most Unpredictable One
All five nominees are international features focused on geopolitical events, and three are directed by women.
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Sundance Winners: See the List
The jury focused largely on under-the-radar titles, though a Jesse Eisenberg-Kieran Culkin collaboration also was recognized.
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‘Pictures of Ghosts’ Review: Layers of Love and Memory
The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho draws on fact and fiction in this image-rich documentary that moves fast and far, but always returns home.
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John Pilger, Crusading Journalist and Documentarian, Dies at 84
A prolific filmmaker and writer who took sides, he was best known for a documentary about the Khmer Rouge’s genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s.
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‘Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero’ Review: A Hip-Hop Trailblazer
The documentary, streaming on Max, follows the queer singer-rapper on the road and at home, but the best scenes by far are when he is onstage.
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Ruth Ashton Taylor, Early Radio and TV Newswoman, Dies at 101
In the late 1940s, she was the only woman working on radio documentaries for CBS’s Edward R. Murrow. In Los Angeles, she was a pioneering newscaster and anchor.
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Depardieu Sexual Assault Suit Dropped Over Statute of Limitations
Hélène Darras, a French actress, had accused Gérard Depardieu of groping her in 2007 on a movie set. A separate investigation of the actor is proceeding, Paris prosecutors said.
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Menachem Daum, Filmmaker Who Explored the World of Hasidim, Dies at 77
His acclaimed documentary, “A Life Apart,” presented a complex portrait of a religious group usually depicted as somber and impenetrable.