by Amelia Gentleman on January 21, 2022

Sonita Gale’s Bafta-longlisted documentary is a difficult watch, but it shows powerfully the pain inflicted on innocent people by a broken system At the height of the pandemic, Farrukh Sair worked on a temporary contract as an NHS IT engineer, […]

on January 21, 2022

“Mija,” premiering in the Sundance NEXT section, profiles Doris Muñoz, a young talent manager in the music business as she works with Latinx superstar Cuco and the newcomer Jacks Haupt. Filmmaker Isabel Castro immerses us in Doris’ world, […]

by Kate Erbland on January 21, 2022

Sundance: Ed Perkins’ remarkable film eschews many of the trappings we’ve come to associate with the modern documentary, and is all the better for it.

by Mark Peikert on January 21, 2022

Sundance: A lively look at how boxers Julio Cesar Chávez and Oscar De La Hoya came to represent clashing national and social identities.

by carolehorst on January 21, 2022

When HBO renewed Bill Simmons’ “Music Box” documentary series for a second season in December, it wasn’t exactly surprising. Critics, film festival programmers and audiences were immediately taken with the series of six docs, which launched […]

by Lauren Wissot on January 20, 2022

Alon Schwarz’s Tantura takes its title from a particular Palestinian village that was depopulated – by any means necessary, including through a still-contested massacre of civilians – during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence (aka “Al […]

by Justin Anderson on January 20, 2022

AMC Networks-owned WE tv has greenlit a new unscripted series, Hip Hop Homicides, from Lionsgate Television, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television, and Mona Scott-Young‘s Monami Productions. The investigative …Read More

by Rebecca Rubin on January 20, 2022

Believe it or not (actually, it’s probably easy to believe), there was a time when pregnant women were deemed too risqué for broadcast television. That changed when Lucille Ball was memorably rushed to the hospital to give birth on […]

by Thomas Allen Harris on January 20, 2022

January 20, 2022 Black, Bold and Queer: Celebrating the Legacy of Marlon Riggs In 1991, Marlon Riggs made history with the POV premiere on PBS of his groundbreaking film Tongues Untied. Read more

by Andrew Jeffrey on January 20, 2022

A monumental challenge of sifting through hundreds of hours of stunning but disjointed and gap-filled archival footage faced filmmaker Sara Dosa and her editing team when work began on her …Read More

by Justin Anderson on January 20, 2022

The history and renewal of British luxury car company Radford will be the subject of a new two-hour special, Radford Returns, which debuts on January 22 on Discovery+  in the …Read More

by carolehorst on January 20, 2022

In the past decade, the inclusion of streaming services in the documentary market has made it increasingly harder for smaller docus struggling with funding to break into the nonfiction feature Oscar race. But in spite of the deep pockets they are […]

by Jason Gorber on January 20, 2022

In 1938, David Kurtz returned to Poland, visiting the land of his birth years after achieving financial success in New York City. He brought along a portable camera and some film, a relative rarity back then for a tourist to be schlepping, and […]

by Chris Lindahl on January 20, 2022

The news divisions of media conglomerates are hungry for nonfiction features. Why? Two NBC execs break down their festival strategy to IndieWire.

by Kirsty Hazlewood on January 20, 2022

Former DuArt colourist is grading Ramin Bahrani’s Sundance entry 2nd Chance Former DuArt senior colourist Jane Tolmachyov has joined Goldcrest Post. Tolmachyov brings credits across feature films, television and advertising, but is best known […]

by Ben Beaumont-Thomas on January 20, 2022

There’s smart input from Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and others, but this documentary really excels in its moments of intimacy as Wilson revisits his past This documentary sets out on a noble but foolhardy mission: to examine the history of […]

by Angela Giuffrida in Rome on January 20, 2022

Kelly Duda faces charge of ‘offending the honour or prestige’ of prosecutor in case alarming free speech advocates An American film-maker has been put on trial in Italy for “offending the honour or prestige” of an Italian prosecutor after […]

by Sharareh Drury on January 20, 2022

The 35 feature documentaries heading to this year’s Sundance Film Festival address a wide array of issues, including the U.S. maternal-mortality crisis (Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s “Aftershock”); the battle over control of women’s […]