Browsing: documentary

If you’re going to title your film “mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do,…

“I chose my name because keys open doors,” Alicia Keys says in voiceover early in “Alicia Keys: Girl From Hell’s…

Before “Ceremony” becomes a film about loss, it first teaches us how to listen. We hear rushing water, birds, Nuxalk…

When the Maguindanao massacre happened in 2009, I remember making a conscious effort not to watch any footage from it.…

For nearly 250 years, a small community has occupied Tangier Island, sitting in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. In…

In 1979, David Greenberger was a young artist with a curiosity that didn’t quite fit anywhere. Fresh out of art…

A surprising side effect of André Ricciardi’s chemotherapy is astonishingly long eyelashes. Ricciardi is the main subject, the brains and…

“I don’t psychoanalyze my sources,” the legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh tells Director Laura Poitras early on in “Cover-Up” (2025).…

“A Place of Absence” opens with a voice that feels both steady and wounded. A woman reflects on having lived…

Long live the New York auteur! But, where have they all gone? Curiously, Michael Atkinson’s essay, “Whatever Happened to the…