Nicole Newnham’s documentary charts the life and times of the feminist Shere Hite, whose pioneering research on women’s sexuality earned her both fame and notoriety.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘The Stones and Brian Jones’ Review: Sympathy for a Founding Rocker
A new documentary looks back at Jones’s rise and fall, but also underlines his crucial strand in the Rolling Stones’ DNA.
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‘Beckham,’ ‘Sly’ and the Challenge of Objective Filmmaking
“The Last Dance” — the Michael Jordan-backed documentary about, well, him — has inspired several celebrities to commission their own biographical films.
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Harry Potter Stuntman Tells His Story in a New Documentary
In a new documentary, David Holmes, a stunt performer in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, recalls his life before and after a harrowing accident on set that left him paralyzed.
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Orin O’Brien Broke Barriers in Music but Doesn’t Want Center Stage
A new documentary tells the story of Orin O’Brien, a double bassist who became the only woman in the New York Philharmonic when she joined in 1966 and helped open doors for others.
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‘David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived’ Review: Harry Potter’s Stunt Wizard
A documentary looks at the friendship that formed during the Harry Potter movies between Daniel Radcliffe and his main stunt double, who was seriously injured in 2009.
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Lady Bird Johnson Documentary Presents a First Lady in Her Own Words
“The Lady Bird Diaries” depicts the former first lady as a mass of contradictions.
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Listening to Lady Bird Johnson, in Her Own Words
“The Lady Bird Diaries” depicts the former first lady as a mass of contradictions.
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‘The Lady Bird Diaries’ Review: A 1960s First Lady Speaks
Lady Bird Johnson proves an engrossing narrator to her own story and that of a roiling nation.
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‘This Much We Know’ Review: Asking Why After a Friend’s Death
L. Frances Henderson’s intricate debut documentary investigates a suicide, raising plenty of questions, including one about its own ethics.
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‘Albert Brooks: Defending My Life’ Review: Revisiting Past Hilarity
This actor, comic, writer and director is seen in a cinematic retrospective that celebrates his talent, but not always in a critically discerning way.
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‘Youth (Spring)’ Review: Garment Rending
The documentarian Wang Bing examines the cloistered world of young textile workers in China.