Documentary Feature

It Might Get Loud opens next week. I urge you all, especially you young ones, to seek this out.  Sneak...

It's one thing to award the Gore doc the big prize during the Bush administration; it's something else entirely to...

DisneyNature will release Earth on April 22nd, Earth Day, and if it makes a boatload of cash it could be...

Intended to be inspirational and awe-inspiring rather than raise worrisome environmental concerns, Disney's epic Earth is positioned as March of...

Philadelphia muralist Isaiah Zager is the subject of his son Jeremiah's documentary, In A Dream, whose trailer comes to us...

"...in the category for which I should have been nominated," as he said just now on HBO's Real Time. He...

It happens every year. The defacto choice in a category becomes mirage-like, shimmering in the distance and we wonder, briefly,...

QUESTION: I think that the debate that you’ve been having, your calls to expand the idea of what documentary can...

All These Wonderful Things has announced the complete nominees for the 2008 Cinema Eye awards for non-fiction film. The group...

AJ Schnack brings the news that the International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced its winners in all but the top...

I read a few sites with commentary on the Oscar documentary short list but I must admit I was waiting...

AMPAS released the contenders for the Documentary Feature and they are: “At the Death House Door” “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” “Blessed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elp5rbsNfnI Indiewire posted the nominees for the International Documentary Association Awards. It is starting to look like one of the...

As a huge fan of such films as The Krays, The Long Good Friday, and the BBC miniseries, The Krays,...

Winner of Best Documentary at Tribeca, Pray the Devil Back to Hell recounts the courageous efforts of Liberian women to...

We've mentioned Man on Wire several times as an almost certain nominee for Best Documentary. Swept up in the general...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrqpxS_aLY TGIF buzz kill, sorry. The poster after the cut has a bold Bauhaus agitprop vibe.

Filmmakers hanging their highest hopes on winning an Academy Award know it's the dream scenario guaranteed to boost box-office with...

Variety's Robert Koehler raves about the French doc, Beloved: Lovely, extremely heartfelt film helps redefine the term "homemovie" as the...

(click for supersized version suitable for printing and posting on classroom corkboards) “An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder...