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By Jennifer Merin, About.com Guide to Documentaries since 2005

Jennifer Fox's Flying: Confessions of a Free Women on Sundance Channel

Wednesday April 30, 2008
The Sundance Channel will air Jennifer Fox's remarkable six-hour documentary, Flying: Confessions of a Free Women in May. In the autobiographical film, Fox travels around the world, visiting with friends in ... Read More

Alanis Obomsawin Retrospective at MoMA

Monday April 28, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art is presenting a retrospective of the films of Alanis Obomsawin, the renown Canadian documentarian who has chronicled the history and struggles of the First Nations ... Read More

Documentaries Releasing Theatrically on April 25, 2008

Tuesday April 22, 2008
This is another really good week for opening documentaries. Errol Morris' highly anticipated Standard Operating Procedure, a Sony Pictures Classics release, has been making the festival rounds for the past year ... Read More

Where In The World Is Morgan Spurlock?

Friday April 18, 2008
He's looking for Osama bin Laden--in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Spurlock's wife is pregnant, but off he goes to dangerous places in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where ... Read More

Documentaries Releasing Theatrically on April 18, 2008

Wednesday April 16, 2008
It's an interesting week, with a lot to watch. The six docs opening theatrically this week are about very different subjects: Terrorist Osama bin Laden and composer Philip Glass, ... Read More

The First Saturday in May (2007) Races Into Theaters

Sunday April 13, 2008
John and Brad Hennegan's wonderful Kentucky Derby documentary, The First Saturday in May, has won awards at festivals across the nation and begins its theatrical release in New York on ... Read More

Week of April 7, 2008: Five Great Docs Release Theatrically

Wednesday April 9, 2008
In theaters this week, a great selection of documentary films covering a wide range of worthy subjects: Body of War (2007) - Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro's award-winning documentary about an ... Read More

Molotov Alva: Doc Set in Cyberspace?

Saturday April 5, 2008
Premiering on Cinemax Reel Life on May 15, 2008, Molotov Alva And His Search For The Creator: A Second Life Odyssey is the first-ever documentary set in a virtual reality. ... Read More

Docs on Demand at UK-based Joiningthedots.tv Debuts April 15, 2008

Friday April 4, 2008
UK-based Mercury Media launches Joiningthedots.tv, its broadband VOD documentaries site, on April 15. Ten documentaries will be offered each month. In May, the company will begin screening films licensed to the ... Read More

Scorsese and The Stones Illuminate Shine A Light

Wednesday April 2, 2008
These gents rarely give interviews. So, when they decide to do a press conference en masse, every film and music journalist in New York--and from around the globe, for that ... Read More

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