Students in an after-school drama club in Athens rehearse their performance about the refugee crisis, March 2017.
(Kathleen Gallagher)
Despite hardships, youth are rallying to build a new vision for the planet. The rest of us should join them.
Rear Window (1954)
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Budding filmmakers needn’t let isolation stand in the way of their cinematic dreams. Here are five and a half ways you can make movie magic at home.
The NFL has been thrust into conversations around criminal justice since Colin Kaepernick and others chose to kneel in protest against police violence, but also in the case of former player Aaron Hernandez.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
From Super Bowl ads to Netflix documentaries, the complicated issues of criminal justice are portrayed in simplistic and highly political ways.
Adnan Syed.
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Sky’s true crime channel is feeding a ‘desktop detective’ culture.
The feature ‘Once Were Brothers’ is the first time a Canadian documentary opens TIFF. The film follows Robbie Robertson from his early life in Toronto and on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve to the creation of legendary roots-rock group The Band.
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Even though a Crave produced film has become the first ever Canadian documentary to open TIFF, video streaming services like Netflix raises challenges for filmmakers looking for domestic audiences.
Some of the boys and girls in 1964, aged seven.
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What started as an experiment in 1964 has become the UK’s most successful documentary franchise.
The author as presenter.
Climate Race Film
We’re running out of time – so we can’t leave it all to Greta Thunburg and David Attenborough.
David Attenborough at the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos.
EPA/Ian Ehrenzeller
The BBC’s new documentary is a great opportunity to challenge our current economic system.
Filmmaker Agnes Varda holds the Honorary Palme d'Or award at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, France. Varda, a central figure of the French New Wave who later won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, has died. She was 90.
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Beloved film director Agnès Varda died at age 90, on March 29th. She was a pioneer of French New Wave cinema and admired for her ability to understand time and see beauty outside of mechanical norms.
Lionesses with cubs in Etosha National Park.
Niki Rust
The life-or-death drama of the lion pride will captivate viewers, but the show may not go on without funding to conserve these species.
Still from Zanny Begg’s film The Beehive.
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Zanny Begg’s film The Beehive, about the 1975 murder of Juanita Nielsen, dismantles the idea that documentaries can impart unequivocal knowledge about the world.
Cocos Malay photo from the 1910s showing a wedding procession that is still practised today with the groom pictured going to the bride’s house accompanied by members of the community.
Wikimedia Commons/From the book 'Coral reefs and islands' authored by Jones, F. Wood (Frederic Wood), 1879-1954, Published by Lovell Reeve & Co. , Ltd. London. Photo digitized by Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
In the 1800s, a group of Southeast Asians were taken to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, now part of Australia, by an English merchant. Their descendants are seeking Indigenous status from Australia.
Flamingoes dance on a lake in South America in Planet Earth II Live in Concert.
Travis Hayto
Planet Earth II Live fuses footage from the BBC series with live orchestration. Despite some narrative flaws, it’s a stirring call to look after our environment.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela being laid to rest. In death, as in life, she divided opinions.
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Society expects journalists to report objectively. But a documentary filmmaker has an opinion.
A still from the documentary film ‘Like a Wolf’ about a young kid from an unprivileged background trying to make it in higher education.
Comme un Loup
To what degree do pupils belong to or in a school?
The Blyth Spartans team of 1917, including Bella Reay (front row, centre) who scored a hat-trick in the Munitionettes Cup.
Yvonne Crawford
A top class female footballer and tragic young soldier who was shot for ‘desertion’ despite fighting in some of WW1’s bloodiest battle fields are two hidden stories of The Great War.
Once we see the scale of issues like the climate change crisis, it can be difficult to imagine solutions. Collective reflection and alternative storytelling is one way to begin. Here: Youth leaders at the Climate March in New York City.
(The Shore Line Project)
Filmmaker Liz Miller discusses her collaborative, interactive documentary process and how storytelling might lead us to an alternative future through action and resistance.
Frank Olson under the microscope.
Netflix
Errol Morris’s new series is not a traditional documentary, but it’s doggedly committed to discovering what happened to Frank Olson.
Zarina Sodha, from Lakhpath Kachchh, Gujarat (western India), a folk singer.
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Passionate musicians in Western India are committed to “break down the walls” of hate built by opportunistic politics between religious communities.
George Michael in the music video for Father Figure.
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George Michael’s posthumous documentary Freedom reveals the star’s tension between pop-stardom and privacy.