documentary

(L-R) Curt Flood, Bill White, Bob Gibson

Black baseball players struggled long after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier

5:00am June 17, 2022

After Jackie, a new History Channel documentary, tells the stories of three of the Black baseball players who followed Jackie Robinson into the major leagues.

New film ‘Still Here’ documents the high rate of Alzheimer’s in the Native American community

1:14pm November 18, 2021

by Eileen Rodriguez

A new film highlights a health disparity when it comes to Alzheimer's disease in the Native American community.

R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago in September 2019.

R. Kelly And Britney TV Docs Tap Into 'Consequence Culture,' Not Cancel Culture

2:34pm August 23, 2021

by Eric Deggans

Surviving R. Kelly and Framing Britney Spears are among a growing list of documentary projects challenging audiences to reconsider old controversies with fresh eyes.

The Shout at Cancer choir, pictured above in 2018, is featured in Bill Brummel's new documentary, Can You Hear My Voice?

In The 'Shout At Cancer Choir,' No Voice Boxes Needed To Sing Out

3:45pm May 03, 2021

by Stephanie O'Neill

All the singers in this U.K. choir have undergone laryngectomies — voice box removal — to treat cancer. Singing builds lung strength, and performing together builds confidence, choir members say.

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Mia Farrow with her children Ronan (left) and Dylan.

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'Allen V. Farrow' Digs Deep Into A Tale Of Celebrity, Power And Silence

1:36pm February 21, 2021

by Eric Deggans

For the new HBO documentary Allen v. Farrow, filmmakers spent three years examining records and interviewing people close to Mia Farrow and Woody Allen to investigate allegations of molestation.

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A scene from 76 Days, a new documentary about frontline health workers and patients during Wuhan's lockdown.

A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was 'Too Real' For My Wuhan-Born Dad. I'm Glad I Watched

7:00am December 19, 2020

by Laura Gao

The reviewer's father, who was born in Wuhan and lived there until he was 28, couldn't bear to keep watching. But she did — and was deeply moved by this new documentary film.

Olasupo Shashore, an author and historian and former attorney general in Lagos State, produced and narrated the new Netflix documentary series Journey of an African Colony: The Making of Nigeria. He's shown above in Lagos, Nigeria.

A Nigerian Finds Hard Truths — And Hope — In Netflix Series On Nigeria

10:40am October 01, 2020

by Ifeanyi Nsofor

Ifeanyi Nsofor reviews the documentary series, Journey Of An African Colony, which confronts a painful past — including involvement in the slave trade — and celebrates the nation's independence.

Dorothea Lange, White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco (1933). Sarah Meister, MoMA's photography curator, sees new resonance in Lange's photographs of aid lines like this one, which stood nearby Lange's studio in Northern California.

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Arts

'A Community Of Desperation' Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange

4:22pm April 30, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The American photographer intimately documented the upheavals of the Great Depression. Now, amid the upheavals of the coronavirus, Lange's portraits of humanity and adversity still have a lot to say.

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Filmmaker Nanette Burstein and Hillary Clinton pose at the Hillary premiere during the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival on Feb. 24, 2020 in Berlin.

'Hillary' Documentary Sets Clinton's Career And Marriage Against Culture War Backdrop

6:07pm March 04, 2020

by Audie Cornish

A new documentary reveals behind-the-scenes footage from Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and explores her life and career against the backdrop of the culture wars of the 1990s and 2000s.

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Students wearing headscarves and helmets learn to navigate traffic cones in a scene from the Oscar-winning documentary, "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)."

An Oscar Goes To A Documentary About Skateboarding Girls In Afghanistan

12:56pm February 10, 2020

by Diaa Hadid

The short documentary is called Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're A Girl. "This movie is my love letter to the brave girls of that country," says director Carol Dysinger.