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HuffingtonPost.com | Crystal Bell | Posted 01.13.2012
On May 5, 1993, three eight-year-old boy scouts -- Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers -- were found dead. One month later, three teena...
HuffingtonPost.com | Crystal Bell | Posted 01.12.2012
After serving more than 18 years in prison for the murders of three boys in West Memphis, Ark., Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr....
Posted 01.12.2012
When "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" premiered on HBO in 1996, it documented the Arkansas judicial system's corrupt handling of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Crystal Bell | Posted 11.19.2011
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, at midnight, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) goes into effect. Yet, the stories of the nearly 14,000 service men who ...
Posted 10.24.2011
On October 5 and 6, HBO will air George Harrison: Living In The Material Wold, Martin Scorsese's latest documentary. Scorcese said of Harrison's m...
Marlo Thomas | Posted 10.14.2011
Just so you know, despite her historic achievements as a feminist icon, as a girlfriend, Gloria Steinem is every bit as real as you and me.
Joanne Doroshow | Posted 08.26.2011
The name comes from the infamous "McDonald's Coffee Case," which most people believe involved a greedy coffee drinker who spilled hot coffee on herself and won millions for no reason. When you see this film, you'll learn what really happened.
Dan Brown | Posted 07.10.2011
Alan and Susan Raymond make documentaries that matter, and their latest, Journey Into Dyslexia, lives up to their reputation. It premieres on HBO2 Wed...
GalleyCat | Maryann Yin on April 15, 2011 8:23 AM | Posted 06.15.2011
Photojournalist Harry Benson has created a book featuring rare and exclusive photographs of reclusive chess master Bobby Fischer. powerHouse Books wil...
Richard Feldman | Posted 06.13.2011
This evening HBO will air a documentary entitled Gun Fight. The large number of gun owners whose viewpoint I represent in the film is obscured by the repeated presentation of "typical" gun owners as militiamen and anti-government extremists.
Neil Leifer | Posted 05.25.2011
Having spent almost 50 years of my life as a photojournalist working mainly for Sports Illustrated and Time Magazine, it never dawned on me that a blind person could take pictures.
Cynthia Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011
Fridriksson's new film, Mamma Gogo, is a real life tribute to his mother with Alzheimer's, but also to those of us who navigate the rocky road of the mother-child relationship.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011
12th & Delaware utilizes a street intersection to illustrate the ideological divide between two camps of thought -- one is an abortion clinic called A Woman's World. The other is an office named the Pregnancy Care Center.
James Rotondi | Posted 05.25.2011
If the totalitarian nightmare portrayed in George Orwell's 1984 strikes you as an implausible portrait of state control and repression, a single viewi...
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011
12th & Delaware directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp) is a really good documentary. It's interesting, provocative, engaging and very well shot.
Susan Cohn Rockefeller | Posted 05.25.2011
While Americans debate who is entitled to health care coverage and who isn't, Dr. Rick Hodes has been in Ethiopia quietly providing it to anyone in need.
Bruce Raynor | Posted 05.25.2011
Anyone who cares about maintaining the middle-class in this country should see Schmatta. The film tells a storied history and raises questions that are central to the future of the American Dream.
Karl Frisch | Posted 05.25.2011
Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.
Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011
We watched HBO's documentary on Maurice Sendak alternately with laughter and tears. Maurice has been an important part of my life for the last 29 years.
Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
Documentary makers could never hope for more raw footage than Terror In Mumbai's director Dan Reed has. It makes for a terrific viewing, but a terrifying concept.
Murray Fromson | Posted 05.25.2011
Not in many years has television given the American viewing public an example of as impressive a documentary as HBO did Monday evening with The Last Truck: the Closing of a GM Factory.
Liza Weisberg | Posted 05.25.2011
In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers.
Liza Weisberg | Posted 05.25.2011
A tender, nostalgic profile of the Camelot clan through the eyes of its youngest member, the documentary plays eerily like a premature eulogy.
Michael Shrage | Posted 05.25.2011
Thrilla in Manila looks at the famous Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier rivalry from Frazier's perspective in a transparent representation of the fighter's tumultuous relationship with his better known rival.
John Hoffman | Posted 05.02.2012