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We spoke to Amy Ziering about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.
Pacific Standard recommends Strong Island, more cinematic memoir than true-crime investigation.
A new documentary profiles the ordinary people who sprang into action as soon bombs began to fall on their beloved homeland.
The director of a new documentary about America's prescription drug epidemic talks Big Pharma and opens up about personal struggles with pill addiction.
The director of He Named Me Malala explains the difference between factual and emotional truth in filmmaking, and why he believes buying a ticket is a form of activism.
Meryl and Susan Goldsmith’s documentary, The Syndrome, has been boycotted and protested against for its portrayal of SBS as outdated science.
The complicated pleasures of Nicholas Wrathall's hagiographic new documentary.
The documentary debuted a year ago, but no one started talking about it until late October. Except, how many people are actually talking about it?
The new documentary “Surviving Progress” takes a cautionary view of modern advancement and sees major problems at every juncture.
A stirring compilation of instances where the pen, or brush, was equivalent to the sword raises the question of whether it can compete with the keyboard.
The documentary "More Than a Month" asks: Does Black History Month still inspire reflection, or just Nike sales?
A PBS documentary follows a group of friends before, during, and after their time in Afghanistan.
PBS looks at the radical environmentalists whose turn to terrorism discredited their quixotic campaign in "If a Tree Falls."
The documentary 'The Desert of Forbidden Art' tells the story of the Igor Savitsky Museum, a remote refuge for Soviet-era art that ran afoul of Stalin's diktat.
Documentary film "Making the Boys" recounts the rise, fall and redemption of the groundbreaking and controversial play, "The Boys in the Band."
The PBS documentary "Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story" asks the question: Who is responsible when family and society so fail a promising child that she turns to prostitution and murder in her teens?
A new film documenting Finland’s effort to seal away nuclear waste for the next 100 millennia asks how one predicts 100,000 years into the future.
The murders, intrigues and expanses of Pakistan's first female prime minister seem made for the big screen, and a new documentary is a game first step in that direction.
Because of its message, the documentary "Bag It" required filmmakers to say both "Do what I do" and "Do what I show." A shrink-wrapped DVD was out of the question.
PBS documentary "Deep Down" looks at a cordial, intense dispute over mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia.