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Marine Corps Bootcamp is Stupid & Spiritually Depravedby ChannelNF on August 19, 2026USMC boot camp has a reputation as the most difficult basic military training in the world. I went through MCRD San Diego and then spent several years stationed on Parris Island. This is a collection of my memories and observations about recruit […]
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IDA Member Spotlight: Alysa Nahmiasby ida-admin on August 18, 2026IDA Member Spotlight: Alysa Nahmias ida-admin Mon, 08/17/2026 – 14:39
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‘The Dynasty: UConn Huskies’ Reviewby Christopher Campbell on August 18, 2026Matthew Hamachek returns with a follow-up to his riveting 2024 docuseries The Dynasty: New England Patriots, this time continuing the fledgling franchise (with Erica Sashin now joining him at the helm) with a much shorter but still highly engaging […]
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What Place Does Artificial Intelligence Have in Documentaries?by Nidhil Vohra on August 17, 2026In August 2025, nearly a year ago to the day, I wrote about the development of generative AI. The integration of the technology in filmmaking has changed significantly since then. As identified by Variety’s Corbin Bolies in an article from July, […]
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The Feature That Won An Oscar For Best Documentary (Short Subject)by Christopher Campbell on August 17, 2026Researching old documentaries can be a confusing but enlightening endeavor. Take the Best Documentary Feature category, for instance. Many sources point to the 15th Academy Awards as the first year of that category and four films as its inaugural […]
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The Feature That Won An Oscar For Best Documentary (Short Subject)by Christopher Campbell on August 17, 2026
Researching old documentaries can be a confusing but enlightening endeavor. Take the Best Documentary Feature category, for instance. Many sources point to the 15th Academy Awards as the first year of that category and four films as its inaugural […]
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100% HUMANby Penny Lane on August 16, 2026Hello friends,One of the first newsletters I ever wrote was about how I was using my fear of sounding like ChatGPT as a motivational tool to level up my writing. Basically: how to make sure everything I write sounds human.Now, with Substack’s […]
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Do We Really Need Another Charles Manson Documentary?by Maria Fontoura on August 16, 2026
As Conversations With a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes hits Netflix, director Joe Berlinger explains why we keep talking about the most-covered case in true-crime history
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‘We Forget — But the Camera Remembers’: How a Hippie River Trip Gave Birth to a Hit Doc Seriesby David Fear on August 15, 2026
The Bend of the River completes Robb Moss’s trilogy about a group of friends who went from 1970s idealists to gracefully aging seventysomethings
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‘A Child Of My Own’ Reviewby Christopher Campbell on August 15, 2026Maite Alberdi, who has already had two documentary features nominated for Academy Awards this decade, is back with another unique nonfiction film. A Child of My Own tells the story of a hospital worker who faked her pregnancy and stole a newborn […]
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‘Coroner To The Stars’ Reviewby Christopher Campbell on August 15, 2026The titular coroner, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, is currently 99 years old. I don’t know how old he was when he was interviewed for Coroner to the Stars, but he was old enough to be thankful he was still alive and able to tell his own story. I prefer […]
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‘The Bend In The River’ Reviewby Christopher Campbell on August 14, 2026
In 1982, Robb Moss released Riverdogs, a short documentary about his friends whom he lived and worked with as part of a naturalist community of Grand Canyon adventurers and guides. Twenty years later, he revisited the subjects of Riverdogs for the […]
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‘American Doctor’ Reviewby Christopher Campbell on August 14, 2026The opening scene of American Doctor involves a debate between the filmmaker (Poh Si Teng) and one of the documentary’s participants (Dr. Mark Perlmutter) over whether or not to show uncensored images of dead children. It’s the most interesting […]
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‘American Doctor’ Review: Three Doctors Travel to Gaza in a Bracing and Essential Documentary About Treating the Despair of an Ongoing Genocideby David Ehrlich on August 14, 2026Poh Si Teng’s remarkable film spotlights the best and most capable among us as part of a uniquely effective call to action.
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The Paramount-WBD Merger Has Documentary Filmmakers on Edge, as They Fear for the Future of Archival Footageby Kate Erbland on August 14, 2026CNN’s library alone encompasses more than 45 years of broadcast coverage of global news, wars, elections, and major political events.
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This Week In Documentary: ‘American Doctor’ & ‘Freefall: The Reckoning Of Boeing’by Christopher Campbell on August 14, 2026What does it say that two of our highlights this week are sequels, and another can be found in our coming attractions section? Probably nothing, except that just as documentaries are the best place to find investigative journalism these days, it’s […]
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This Week In Documentary: ‘American Doctor’ & ‘Freefall: The Reckoning Of Boeing’by Christopher Campbell on August 14, 2026
What does it say that two of our highlights this week are sequels, and another can be found in our coming attractions section? Probably nothing, except that just as documentaries are the best place to find investigative journalism these days, it’s […]
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Travis Barker Has Had Some Hard Knocks, But He’s Talking About It All Nowby Simon Vozick-Levinson on August 13, 2026
The new documentary Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear tells his full story, from his first tattoos to joining Blink-182 to the crash that changed his life forever
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