Biz Markie created hits like “Just a Friend” and influenced a wide range of rappers, many of whom remember him fondly in this Showtime documentary.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘The Eternal Memory’ Review: A Love That Lasts When Recollections Fade
This documentary from Maite Alberdi looks at how a couple faces one partner’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
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Rodriguez, Singer Whose Career Was Resurrected, Dies at 81
Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”
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Jess Search, a Force in the Documentary Genre, Dies at 54
As one of the leaders of Doc Society, she supported countless filmmakers, with an emphasis on underrepresented groups and unconventional stories.
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‘Charm Circle’ Review: Welcome to Queens
In this tender and funny documentary, Nira Burstein films her parents in their house in Queens without making excuses about their unsettled lives.
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‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R.
The scientist and spy Theodore Hall is profiled in this warm, low-key documentary.
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Claire Simon Finds a New Subject: Herself
The French director Claire Simon was making a movie about a Paris hospital when she found out she had cancer. So she became a character in her own film.
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‘Our Body’ Review: Patience
The French director Claire Simon’s profoundly humane documentary focuses on patients in the gynecology ward of a Paris hospital.
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The Best True Crime to Stream Now
Four picks across television, documentary and podcast that do a lot more than rehash what we already know about notorious killers.
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‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary
“The Day After Trinity,” made available without a subscription until August, shot to the top of the Criterion Channel’s most-watched films.
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‘Kokomo City’ Review: Dispatches From the Down Low
The director D. Smith’s new documentary follows four Black transgender women, who talk about how they got into sex work.
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‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Review: A Pop Star Turns Politician
Uganda has been under authoritarian rule for decades. Wine has doggedly challenged its leader, and this documentary shows the price he’s paid.