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The End of Poverty?

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Martin Sheen, Poverty, Philippe Diaz, An Inconvenient Truth, Documentaries, Global Poverty, Film, Movies, Global Warming, New York News
Wayne Trujillo

In anticipation of the film's premiere on Nov. 13 in New York, Director Philipe Diaz spoke with me to discuss the film's aspirations -- spurring a grassroots effort to banish poverty.

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Woodstock Film Fest -- Those Who Remain

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Mexico, Mexican Immigrants, Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigrants, Woodstock Film Festival, Those Who Remain, Documentaries, Carlos Hagerman, Juan Carlos Rulfo, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

What we do not see, do not hear about, never even think about, are the families of Mexican immigrant men left behind in Mexico.

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ReThink Review: Capitalism: A Love Story -- A Must-See Subversion

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Greed, Dead Peasant, Dead Peasant Life Insurance, Rethink Reviews, Documentaries, Capitalism, Jonathan Kim, Film, Movies, Movie Reviews, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Janitors Insurance Policy, Michael Moore, Documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, Plutonomy, Movie Critic, Life Insurance, Citigroup, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

An excoriating critique of America's economic ideology, Capitalism may go down as one of the most timely and subversive films in movie history

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National Parks: America's Best Idea

Allison Rockefeller | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Pbs, Grand-Tetons, Dayton Duncan, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Documentaries, The Civil War, Ken Burns, National Parks, Movies, New York News
Allison Rockefeller

Welcome to your American inheritance: 84 million acres comprising 58 national parks, with 333 historic monuments, seashores, and battlefields.

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Ken Burns' New National Parks Documentary Starts Slowly, But Gets Better

Levi Novey | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Stephen Mather, Documentaries, Dayton Duncan, Everglades National Park, Gifford Pinchot, Franklin Roosevelt, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Lincoln Memorial, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, History, Tourism, Martin Luther King, Ken Burns, John Muir, National Park Service, Yosemite, Documentary, Mark Twain, PBS Documentaries, National Parks, Forest Service, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Civilian Conservation Corps, Green Jobs, Green News
Levi Novey

I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.

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Forest Whitaker's Sundance Channel Series About Newark Reform Efforts Premiers Today

Joe Territo | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York

Read More: Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Forest-Whitaker, Newark, Brick City, Documentaries, Sundance Channel, New York News
Joe Territo

The first screening of "Brick City," chronicling reform efforts in Newark, will be held at Newark's Symphony Hall at 5pm today.

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DVDs -- Don't Be Conned: Check Out "Duplicity"

Michael Giltz | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: World of Warcraft. Julia Roberts, Documentaries, Astro Boy, Movies, Dvds, Animation, Osamu, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

This week in DVD releases: A clever, sexy and adult caper about two opposing corporate spies who are working together to scam their employers. Maybe.

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ReThinking Standard Operating Procedure: Yes, Virginia, We Really Do Torture

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cenk Uygur, Movie Review, Standard Operating Procedure, George W. Bush, Rethink Reviews, Documentaries, John Yoo, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Abu Ghraib, The Young Turks, Movie Reviews, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, Lynndie England, Charles Graner, Film Critic, Errol Morris, Documentary, Iraq, Torture, Sabrina Harman, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.

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HBO's Marion Barry Movie and Silverdocs: Reality Shows for Smart People

Art Levine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Silverdocs, Best Worst Movie, Documentaries, Marion Barry, Afghan Star, October Country, Entertainment News
Art Levine

Nine Lives of Marion Barry illustrates the unique power of documentaries. They satisfy our cravings for true stories without the cheesy qualities that have so degraded the reality shows on TV.

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Vandals On The Side of The Angels: How Far Is Too Far?

Eric Lurio | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Documentaries, International Law, Documentaries, International Whaling Commission, Piracy, Whaling, New Movies, Japan Whaling, Flipper, The Cove, Sea Shepherds, Entertainment News
Eric Lurio

I am not a fan of whaling and have long supported the ban, but what Sea Shepherd and its friends have been doing, has been mostly ineffective and somewhat counterproductive.

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Five Things You Didn't Hear About Walter Cronkite

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Ernie Leiser, Don Hewitt, Upi, Walter Cronkite, Jane Fonda, Walter Cronkite Dead, Documentaries, George Clooney, CBS News, Bicentenial, Cbs, The China Syndrome, Michael Douglas, Robin Williams, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Stories from before Cronkite was Cronkite

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The (2nd) Oldest Trade

Sheila Shayon | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Reality TV, Documentaries, Media, Television History, See It Now, Edward R. Murrow, Media News
Sheila Shayon

Serious attention should be paid to the media diet we are being fed -- and its effects on our minds and hearts.

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Errol Morris and the Passing of Robert McNamara

Brad Schreiber | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Academy Awards, Robert S. McNamara, Documentaries, Viet Nam, The Fog of War, Errol-Morris, Politics News
Brad Schreiber

Morris said, "very few people today know about the firebombing and hardly anybody knows about Robert McNamara's role in the firebombing".

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'Comrade Couture' Documentary Revisits Germany's Communist Creativity

Der Spiegel | Caroline Winter | Posted 07.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Communism, Germany, Documentaries, Fashion, Berlin Wall, Style News

Most think of East Germany as having been drab, gray and boring. But an underground fashion scene did its best to spice things up. A new documentary t...

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INTERVIEW: Filmmaker Havana Marking On The Dangers Of Being An 'Afghan Star' (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan Culture, Sundance Film Festival, Political Asylum, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Beyonce, Democracy, Documentaries, Taliban, Diane Tucker, Slumdog Millionaire, Mujahideen, Afghanistan War, Havana Marking, Daoud Siddiqi, Pop Idol, Tolo TV, American Idol, Afghan Taliban, Afghan Star, Lema, Setara, Saad Mohseni, Jahid Mohseni, World News
Diane Tucker

"Watching young girls with only one mobile phone in the house debate about who to cast that one vote for -- it was pretty powerful. It wasn't a presidential election, but it was the idea that these girls had a role to play..."

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Interview with Fixer Director Ian Olds: Afghanistan, History and Winning Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: History, Tribeca Film Festival, World, The Brooklyn Socialite, Afghanistan, Documentaries, Ian Olds, Ajmal Naqshbandi, Afghanistan War, World News
Robyn Hillman-Harrigan

I caught up with the film's director, Ian Olds for a lively conversation about Fixer, the state of politics in Afghanistan, historiography and how it feels to have been in two war zones in the past few years.

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Maximum Platform Versus Basic Floor: The Case for Autism as its Own Universe

Amanda Copeland | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Films, Entertainment, Aidan Quinn, Federal Government, Documentary, Autism, Documentaries, Travel, Film, Camino De Santiago, Legislation, Spain, Living News
Amanda Copeland

We autism parents know our children. We know they can struggle for recovery and get there in varying levels of ability. But we know they can earn recovery if they just get a chance.

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How Recent Documentary Films May Have Paved the Way to Embrace the Figure of Barack Obama

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dalton Trumbo, Fta, Ellen Spiro, Theater of War, Zana Briski, Trauma, War, Francine Parker, Susan Sontag, Phil Donahue, Jane Fonda, Fog of War, Spike Lee, Documentaries, Bertolt Brecht, Invasion of Iraq, Body of War, Politics, Ross Kauffman, Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11, Tomas Young, Vietnam War, Lila Lipscomb, Errol Morris, The Congressional Black Caucus, Heddy Honigmann, John Walter, Presidential Elections, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.

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Wild and Wonderful at Tribeca

Julien Nitzberg | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Appalachia, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Documentary, Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Documentaries, Coal Mining, Entertainment News
Julien Nitzberg

Our movie deals with some very serious issues like the destructiveness of the mining industry and entitlement culture but we also have a lot of fun drug use, gun shooting, and gratuitous nudity.

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The Bigger They Con, The Harder They Fall: Tribeca Film Festival Documentary On Artist Mark Kostabi

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Andy Warhol, Hbo, Art Market, Tribeca Film Festival, Art, Art World, Contemporary Art, Documentary, Documentaries, Documentary Film, Michael Sladek, Mark Kostabi, Film, Comedy, New York Art, Entertainment News
Jonathan Melber

One of the things that makes Con Artist so interesting is its search for what's behind Mark Kostabi's current act. Is there something new to his art, or its meaning?

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America is Fu... eled

Hillary Newman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Gas, Green Transit, Future of Fuel, Fuel Efficiency, Oil, Josh Tickell, Documentaries, Future Fuel, Interview, Biodiesel, Green News
Hillary Newman

"Fuel" tells the story of Josh Tickell's quest to spread awareness about biodiesel as an alternative energy source. After watching the film, I wanted more. So I set up an interview.

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Documentary Features Mike Tyson with His Gloves Off

Danny Groner | Posted 04.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Moviemakers, Don King, Second Chance, Movie, Robin Givens, Documentary Film, Documentaries, Cannes, Moviemaking, Film, Movies, Tyson, Cinema, Movie Reviews, Mike Tyson, Boxer, Media Attention, Documentary, James Toback, Boxing, Cannes Film Festival, Entourage, Evander Holyfield, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

On Thursday night I attended a screening of the documentary Tyson, set to be released later this spring. The film is an intimate look at famed boxer M...

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Iron Maiden Takes Off--Sneak Peak at The Soon to be Released Historic Documentary

Mark Levine | Posted 04.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film Reviews, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden, Documentaries, Rock N Roll, Entertainment News
Mark Levine

You've never experienced "The Trooper" or "Run to the Hills" until you've heard Iron Maiden perform them in front of 15,000 screaming Muslim metalhead...

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LA's (Dirty) Secret Garden

Christal Smith | Posted 03.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Garden, The Academy Awards, Documentaries, The Oscars, Community Garden, Award Season, Entertainment News
Christal Smith

Director and Producer and fresh vegetable aficionado Scott Hamilton Kennedy explains why one garden in particular was worthy of a feature length film.

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Fighting for the Lives of Marine Mammals in The Cove

Joel Reynolds | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: SaveJapanDolphins.Org, International Whaling Commission, Documentaries, Dolphins, Whaling, Film, The Cove, Green News
Joel Reynolds

The Cove is a riveting tale, told with skill, substance, and relentless drama. This movie is a remarkable achievement, and everyone should see it. I hope they'll get the chance.

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