documentary
Told with just the right amount of empathy, Five Years North offers an illuminating, and much needed, look at immigration in America.
Once celebrated, but now largely forgotten, novelist and short story writer Nelson Algren deserves the attention given to him in a wide-ranging documentary.
Television artist Bob Ross just wanted to share his love of painting with viewers. His business partners had other ideas.
Truman & Tennessee is a meticulously researched and edited documentary about two gay men and their differing commitments to art.
Exuding a guerilla theater, agitprop vibe (with touches here and there of vaudeville and live sketch comedy), F.T.A. is a thrilling expression of pacifism and accountability directed at the military.
Without ignoring the terrible-beautiful magnetism of the industrial imagery we love to hate and hate to love, the camera is gradually, gently, drawn across the river and away from the workday, to spend time with these very real humans who serve the machines.
Belushi is a warts-and-all look at one of comedy’s raging bulls.
Pitched in this era of hyper partisanship and sharp division, The Ground Between Us is notable because of the weight and balance it gives to the issues at stake.
The cinema verite masterpiece is among the first non-fiction theatrical features to chronicle “regular” people going about their everyday lives.
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