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- Academy Awards 2010 Documentaries Short List - Documentaries Short L…Created: 2009-11-20 @ 06:26:16 EST Updated: 2009-11-21 @ 02:07:22 EST
Fifteen documentaries have been short listed for the five nomination slots for Academy Awards 2010 Best Documentary… - Documentaries for Holiday Gifts 2009 - Movies to Give As Holiday Gif…Created: 2009-11-19 @ 19:09:51 EST Updated: 2009-11-19 @ 21:26:45 EST
A list of documentaries that will make great holiday gifts for friends and family with special interests and the love of great movies about real life… - Ten Documentaries for Veterans Day - Movies About Soldiers…Created: 2009-11-08 @ 21:07:24 EST Updated: 2009-11-09 @ 12:48:36 EST
A list of documentary films in which current and former soldiers, and other concerned citizens, recount their experiences with war and express their opinions about it… - Soldiers Of Conscience - Movie Review of Soldiers of ConscienceCreated: 2009-11-08 @ 19:46:40 EST
<i>Soldiers of Conscience</i> is a documentary about the soldiers' dilemma of whether killing is an acceptable action in war. Statistics show that there are many soldiers who grapple wi… - Lioness - Movie Review of Lioness - 2008Created: 2009-11-08 @ 19:32:08 EST
Lioness, by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers, profiles a group of courageous women soldiers who were deployed to Iraq as support personnel--mechanics, cooks, and clerks--but found themselves in actual… - The Good Soldier - Movie Review of The Good Soldier - 2009Created: 2009-11-05 @ 21:44:40 EST
In [i]The Good Soldier[/i], documentary filmmakers Lexi Lovell and Michael Uys interview a cadre of highly decorated soldiers who'd fought valiantly in America's wars -- from World War II to Iraq -… - Cinema Eye Awards 2010 Nominated Documentaries - Films Nominated for…Created: 2009-11-05 @ 20:24:21 EST Updated: 2009-11-05 @ 22:15:31 EST
The Cinema Eye Awards honor nonfiction films in specific categories, including Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, best direction, best cinematography, best special effects an… - Cinema Eye Awards 2010 - Documentaries Eligible for 2010 Cinema Eye …Created: 2009-11-05 @ 09:50:47 EST Updated: 2009-11-05 @ 18:09:23 EST
Here is the list of documentaries eligible for the 2009 Cinema Eye Awards. The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cin… - Michael Jackson's This Is It - Movie Review of Michael Jackson's Thi…Created: 2009-10-28 @ 04:16:34 EDT Updated: 2009-10-28 @ 23:03:38 EDT
Michael Jackson rehearses for the [i]This Is It[/i] tour. The performances were to be the King of Pop's come back, but the tour had to be cancelled due to Jackson's untimely death two weeks before … - IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival AmsterdamCreated: 2009-10-21 @ 22:07:26 EDT Updated: 2009-10-21 @ 22:11:54 EDT
IDFA, the acronym for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, is one of the the world's largest and arguably most prestigious film festivals featuring documentaries exclusively. It t… - Afghan Star - Movie Review of Afghan StarCreated: 2009-10-12 @ 13:39:28 EDT
Afghan Star follows three singing sensations as they make their bid to become the winner of Afghanistan's very popular reality TV show, one of the international spin offs of American Idol. … - Margot Benacerraf - Interview with Margot Benacerraf - Araya DirectorCreated: 2009-10-07 @ 09:21:44 EDT Updated: 2009-10-07 @ 22:45:42 EDT
Filmmaker Margot Benacerraf discusses the restoration of her legendary film, Araya, which won the International Critics Award at Cannes in 1959 but was not released in the U.S. until 2009… - DOCBOAT Film Festival - DOCBOAT Is Poland's Online Film FestivalCreated: 2009-10-06 @ 15:33:18 EDT
DOCBOAT presents about 70 documentaries to online viewers in Poland and around the world, and has a juried and audience prizes… - Best Documentaries of 2009 - List of the Best Documentaries of 2009…Created: 2009-10-04 @ 11:26:59 EDT Updated: 2009-10-05 @ 11:01:11 EDT
A list of the best documentary films of 2009… - Crude - Movie Review of Crude - 2009Created: 2009-09-05 @ 23:18:46 EDT Updated: 2009-09-05 @ 23:28:01 EDT
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger exposes the Texaco/Chevron toxic waste contamination of thousands of square miles of the Ecuadorian Amazon and rain forest, and chronicles the efforts of local tribes and in… - Good Hair - Movie Review of Good Hair - 2009Created: 2009-09-04 @ 00:45:59 EDT Updated: 2009-09-04 @ 23:33:31 EDT
Filmmaker Jeff Stilson follows comedian Chris Rock on his hilarious, yet disturbing and sometimes alarming investigation of the social implications and economic impact of African-American women's p… - Capitalism A Love Story - Movie Review of Capitalism A Love Story - …Created: 2009-09-03 @ 00:12:09 EDT Updated: 2009-09-03 @ 00:50:07 EDT
Filmmaker Michael Moore investigates and comments on the current economic crisis… - We Live In Public - Movie Review of We Live In Public - 2009Created: 2009-09-02 @ 23:05:34 EDT
Ondi Timoner's documentary looks at the career and influence of Josh Harris, the Internet visionary and artist who rose to fame during the 1990s dot.com boom. The film chronicles Harris' social exp… - Second Skin - Movie Review of Second Skin -2008Created: 2009-09-01 @ 00:24:36 EDT
This documentary investigates the real life social interactions of devoted players of massively-multiplayer online games, and follows them several of them into their alternative lives in the cybers… - September Issue - Movie Review of The September Issue - 2009Created: 2009-08-31 @ 12:51:26 EDT
RJ Cutler's documentary is a dishy profile of fashion editor Anna Wintour and an insider's glimpse at the prima fashionista's 20-year tenure at Vogue Magazine and a reveal of her influence over the… - Toronto Film Festival - 2009 - Documentaries ProgramCreated: 2009-08-29 @ 21:16:49 EDT
The list and descriptions of documentary films presented at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival (September 10-19, 2009)… - At The Edge Of The World - Movie Review of At the Edge of the World …Created: 2009-08-24 @ 00:55:48 EDT
Director Dan Stone chronicles the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's 3rd Antarctic Campaign, in which two small and meagerly equipped ships set out to prevent the Japanese whaling fleet from illeg… - Art & Copy - Movie Review of Art & Copy - 2009Created: 2009-08-21 @ 19:48:55 EDT Updated: 2009-08-21 @ 21:40:42 EDT
[i]In Art & Copy[i], director Doug Pray traces the birth of modern advertising to the marriage of art and copy, when designers and writers got together to talk concept. The film further present… - Throw Down Your Heart - Review of Throw Down Your Heart - 2008Created: 2009-08-16 @ 15:48:55 EDT
Filmmaker Sascha Paladino follows musicologist and banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck to Uganda, Tanzania, Mali and Gambia to bring the banjo back to the area where it originated, discover banjo-related and… - Earth Days - Movie Review of Earth Days -2009Created: 2009-08-12 @ 22:40:59 EDT Updated: 2009-08-13 @ 09:19:36 EDT
Earth Day is the annual event staged to raise awareness about our planet, and to further conservationists' efforts to establish policies and practices that protect and will sustain human life on Ea… - Gotta Dance - Movie Review of Gotta Dance - 2008Created: 2009-07-28 @ 13:34:56 EDT
The NJ Nets auditions dancers aged 60 and older, and hires twelve of them to become the team's senior citizen hip hop squad to perform for basketball fans at home games. … - The Cove - Movie Review of The Cove - 2009Created: 2009-07-27 @ 02:03:38 EDT Updated: 2009-07-27 @ 02:34:26 EDT
Filmmaker Louis Psihoyos follows animal rights activist Richard O'Barry in this shocker of a documentary that effectively exposes the annual secret slaughter of thousands of dolphins by a greedy co… - 2009 Emmy Awards Nominations For Best Documentary - Best Documentary…Created: 2009-07-18 @ 18:04:44 EDT Updated: 2009-07-18 @ 18:41:26 EDT
A list of films nominated for the Emmy for Best Documentary in 2009… - Cinema VéritéUpdated: 2009-11-21 @ 17:09:05 EST
French, meaning "film truth." A term applied to documentary films in which there is a truthful live encounter between the filmmaker who is shooting the film and the film's subject(s). … - Steep - Movie Review of Steep - 2007Updated: 2009-11-19 @ 20:56:42 EST
Panoramic shots of exquisite snow clad mountain top terrain and men on skis speeding through velvet powder and hurtling off cliffs in wildly energetic somersaults through the crisp cold air make th… - Full Battle Rattle - Movie Review of Full Battle Rattle - 2008Updated: 2009-11-08 @ 18:59:10 EST
Full Battle Rattle takes us along as the 5-82 Battalion readies for deployment to Iraq with a three-week simulation in the Mohave Desert, where the U.S. military has built and populated several rep… - Crips and Bloods: Made In America - Movie Review of Crips and Bloods…Updated: 2009-11-08 @ 18:54:27 EST
Crips and Bloods: Made In America is director Stacy Peralta's insider investigation of two infamous African-American gangs that rule South Central Los Angeles, the area where America's two bloodies… - The Cool School - 2007 - Movie Review of The Cool SchoolUpdated: 2009-11-01 @ 23:53:23 EST
The Cool School is a documentary film about the work and lifestyle of the clique of modern artists who created the thriving contemporary art scene in Los Angeles during the 1950s… - Must Reads: Essential Articles and Resources about DocumentariesUpdated: 2009-10-07 @ 23:56:00 EDT
- Documentary Films About The EnvironmentUpdated: 2009-10-04 @ 16:36:11 EDT
These documentary films show you how global warming, pollution and mismanagement of Earth's resources are setting the stage for environmental disasters that will, if unabated, ultimately make out p… - Anvil! The Story of Anvil - Movie Review of Anvil! The Story of AnvilUpdated: 2009-10-04 @ 12:56:44 EDT
Anvil! The Story of Anvil documents the amazing careers of heavy metal musicians Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and Robb Reiner as they survive day jobs to rock for ages… - FTA - Movie Review of FTA - 1972 - DVD 2009Updated: 2009-09-24 @ 03:11:24 EDT
FTA, a 1972 documentary that followed Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland's cabaret show as it toured US military bases during the Vietnam War, is a powerful anti-war statement that was almost silence… - Molotov Alva And His Search For The Creator - A Second Life Odyssey …Updated: 2009-09-06 @ 11:56:06 EDT
Molotov Alva And His Search For The Creator - A Second Life Odyssey is the first-ever virtual reality documentary. It follows a fictitious character named Molotov Alva who, armed with a virtual cam… - Michael Moore Biography - Profile of Documentary Director Michael Mo…Updated: 2009-09-04 @ 10:49:15 EDT
Michael Moore, champion of liberal political and social causes, is arguably the best known and most influential documentary filmmaker in the world… - Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 - Movie Review of Harvard Beats Yale 29-29Updated: 2009-08-29 @ 16:02:31 EDT
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 is Kevin Rafferty's nostaligic replay of the amazing playoff game between the undefeated football teams of the two Ivy League giants… - Trouble The Water - Movie Review of Trouble The Water - 2008Updated: 2009-08-29 @ 15:59:10 EDT
In Trouble The Water, filmmakers Tia Lessen and Carl Deal follow a New Orleans Ninth Ward couple, Kimberly and Scott Roberts, who've survived Katrina with some remarkable footage of the devastating… - Flow - For Love of Water - Movie ReviewUpdated: 2009-08-17 @ 21:22:37 EDT
Flow: For Love of Water (2008) describes the global crisis we face as Earth's fresh water supply constantly diminishes due to pollution, privatization and corporate greed, and wastefulness. Experts…