A New York-based filmmaker wades into the deep waters of his Gullah Geechee heritage and South Carolina roots.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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Stream These Three Great Documentaries
This month’s selections include a look at a political activist’s life, a reconsideration of a controversial Israeli thesis and a portrait of an author and his editor.
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‘White Balls on Walls’ Review: Time With the Gatekeepers
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam becomes a somewhat flimsy case study for fine-art diversity and inclusion conversations in this documentary.
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‘Being Mary Tyler Moore’ Review: A Tip of the Hat to the Tossed Hat
This charming documentary aims to peek under the smile of a groundbreaking television star.
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Summer Movies 2023: ‘Barbie,’ ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.’
Barbie springs to life, Indy swings into action and Spidey slings new webs. Here are 107 films for movie lovers of all tastes.
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‘Victim/Suspect’ Review: When the Accuser Becomes the Accused
A reporter investigates cases in which sexual assault survivors were arrested on charges of false reporting in this cogent documentary.
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‘The Taking’ Review: This Land Is Not Your Land
Monument Valley embodies the Old West. But the fantasies presented in Westerns obscure its darker history and the lives of the Navajo people who inhabit it.
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‘Museum of the Revolution’ Review: Sheltering in an Abandoned Utopia
This quiet documentary observes three unhoused women from different generations who live among the remains of an unfinished museum in Belgrade.
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‘Queenmaker’ Review: Society Blogger to Self-Made Celebrity
The chronicler of the post-9/11 New York social whirl who is at the center of this documentary was no Manhattan insider but rather a student in Illinois.
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‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me’ Review: Mistreated
The tumultuous life and death of the model, actress and tabloid superstar is related with little insight in this facile Netflix documentary.