Graphic scenes of bleeding chest cavities and open skulls and throbbing hearts aside, Hopkins 24/7's most revealing close-up is its resonant portrait of the American family.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — In filming a sequel to a 2000 series about Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, ABC News producers found that reality television had ...
Sara Taksler | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment
When your movie is about eight people whose lives are transformed by balloon twisting conventions, you have to work a bit harder to convince adults that your film will be worth their time.
Mark Joseph | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
David Cunningham premiered his latest film, Hakani, on the Big Island last night and I joined 100 or so guests to screen it. The film tackles the diff...
Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
Not your usual documentary, Body of War is a superb example of how film can illuminate human lives.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living
With dwindling resources, climate change, and the triple threats of peak oil, peak soil, and peak water nipping at our heedless heels, industrial agriculture is becoming a "luxury" we can't afford.
Sandra Fu | Posted 03.07.2008 | Entertainment
Girls Rock! tracks four girls from different backgrounds during a weeklong hideaway in Portland, where they form bands, write songs and eventually throw a concert for hundreds.
Allison Shigo | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment
Women in developing countries are either dying while giving birth or dying a symbolic death when they develop a fistula and are left to live the rest of their lives alone.
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
Watch this five-minute YouTube clip with FBI Special Agent and interrogator and Damien Corsetti talking about torture and going over the line.
Jamie Johnson | Posted 02.19.2008 | Entertainment
Many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all -- they are actually excited about it.
Mark Klempner | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment
Pete Seeger is our homegrown musical Gandhi demonstrating that as our voices harmonize, so can our lives, and so can our world.
Michael Giltz | Posted 02.04.2008 | Entertainment
Though this isn't some revisionist demythologizing work, the beauty of the images does reinforce the aura of "hero" that surrounded the basically thuggish outlaw Jesse James.
Laurie Nadel | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
Fearful for their safety and their careers, no fewer than 350 Iraqi doctors refused to appear on camera. The 351st to be asked agreed.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment
The stories of women's post Sundance experience may be varied, but the road is not paved with agents, managers or offers -- typically it's difficulties, development hell and disappointments.
Craig Newmark | Posted 01.03.2008 | Entertainment
Kinda like a Seinfeld episode, ain't it?
David Wallechinsky | Posted 12.03.2007 | Entertainment
Cinéma vérité director Frederick Wiseman shows us that life is not as black and white as we would like it to be, and that most people, in their daily lives, are simply doing the best that they know how.
Patrick Waldo | Posted 11.19.2007 | Living
As a long time vegetarian, animal rights supporter, and PETA member, I'm excited about the attention the documentary will bring to the organization's causes.
Ben Selkow | Posted 10.25.2007 | Entertainment
Sam's photography has been put aside by his day-to-day struggles to get his life back on track.
Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 10.25.2007 | Entertainment
In Unborn in the USA, sometimes the protagonists succeed in changing people's minds about abortion, but they never succeed in compelling obedience to the unenforceable.
Tim Dickinson | Posted 10.22.2007 | Entertainment
Short Film Review: Documentary lovers. Do yourself a favor tonight at 9PM and check out A Summer in the Cage on the Sundance Channel. Long Film Revie...
John Farr | Posted 10.09.2007 | Entertainment
There are plenty of docs you never hear about that are equal to, or dare I say, better than, even Michael Moore's finest output.
Rory Kennedy | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics
This is familiar rhetoric. We heard him say the same thing in the wake of Abu Ghraib. We shouldn't have believed him then, and we shouldn't trust him now.
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.02.2007 | Entertainment
Look at all the titles in the last two weeks that even ardent DVD fans can only shake their heads in happiness over.
Peter Smith | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
In Bush's desert folly, nobody back home sacrifices, except for the families and friends of the men and women fighting the war.
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 09.19.2007 | Media
Documentary producer Ken Burns told a National Press Club audience in Washington, D.C., Wednesday that he will never say never to war again, with a Vi...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
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HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Juli Weiner | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment