Channel 4 News
| Apr 3, 2013
Somali pirates have kidnapped hundreds of people and cost millions in ransom payments. Jamal Osman finds journalists keen to interview them do not always get what they bargained for.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Feb 27, 2013
Former Chicago Bulls basketball star and show-off Dennis Rodman landed today in North Korea, where he and three Harlem Globetrotters plan to play their game and teach workshops to local kids. Rodman and members of an accompanying documentary film ...
Democracy Now!
| Feb 26, 2013
As protests grow in the West Bank over the death of a Palestinian inside an Israeli prison, we speak to a pair of Israeli and Palestinian fathers who've responded to personal tragedies with activism for peace. Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan united...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 23, 2013
Hollywood is getting ready to hand out the industry's most prestigious film awards: the Oscars. Among the contenders for best documentary is a film directed by an Israeli, and another by a Palestinian. Both the Israeli "The Gatekeepers" and Palest...
Euronews
| Feb 21, 2013
Even Oscar nominees find it difficult to make it through US immigration these days. Documentary filmmaker Emad Burnat and his eight-year-old son were stopped at Los Angeles International Airport. "They want to send me back home," said the filmma...
Landfill Harmonic
| Dec 9, 2012
They didn't have lemons to make lemonade, so they took trash instead to form ... an orchestra. A group of Paraguay kids have their own "Landfill Harmonic," thanks to musical instruments created from garbage. Check out this teaser for a film about ...
LinkAsia
| Nov 26, 2012
LinkAsia contributor Charlie Custer directed the new documentary film "Living with Dead Hearts", an investigation into the epidemic of child kidnapping in China. He joins LinkAsia to talk about the making of the film.
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Cinelan
| Mar 3, 2012
An unusual marriage of form and function energizes the jaw-droppingly beautiful Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York.
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Cinelan
| Apr 10, 2012
Dr. Joseph Rizzo and Prof. John Wyatt have pioneered a technology for restoring sight to patients who suffer from degenerative blindness.
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Cinelan
| Jan 9, 2012
A moving portrait of Hilary Lister, a quadriplegic champion sailor whose metal-and-circuit-board navigational tool, invented with friends, led her to conquer the oceans of the world.
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...her Auraria showing with an engagement at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where the film was shown with commentary from curators. Redfe...
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. A 'documentary film' was originally shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video, made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries.
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