A new documentary reveals behind-the-scenes footage from Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and explores her life and career against the backdrop of the culture wars of the 1990s and 2000s.
The short documentary is called Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're A Girl. "This movie is my love letter to the brave girls of that country," says director Carol Dysinger.
Most famous for his Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back and Bill Clinton presidential campaign chronicle, The War Room, Pennebakerdied of natural causes on Aug. 1.
Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck discuss how their documentary tells the sobering story of the trauma and challenges faced by those who sift through social content.
The documentary chronicles the opening of Edwins, a fine-dining restaurant in Cleveland that provides education, housing and steady employment for former inmates.
In an interview with NPR's Here & Now about his new documentary, Wasted! The Story of Food Waste, the chef drives home the size of the problem and the importance of changing our perspective.
The duo behind a web-based food show is featuring personal, positive portraits of immigrant families. Their goal: to shift thinking outside the "liberal bubble" — by using targeted posts on Facebook.
In the film, Couric asks gun owners a question and is met with dumbstruck silence. That's not what happened in the interview. Instead, NPR's David Folkenflik says, it was a foolish directorial choice.
Adi, an optometrist in Indonesia, offers forgiveness — if they'll admit to what they did during the massacre of the mid-1960s. That's the story that unfolds in the documentary The Look Of Silence.
The Hunting Ground, shortlisted for next year's Oscars, has inspired a backlash — not only for its perspective but for the factual foundation on which it is based and its reporting methods.
Sinofsky and his longtime co-director, Joe Berlinger, are perhaps best known for Paradise Lost, a trilogy of films about three teenagers convicted of killing three little boys in West Memphis, Ark.
Jeff Watkins looked the picture of health. He ran and worked out all the time. Then he found out he had a deadly form of leukemia. The doctors said he had one shot at surviving: a bone marrow transplant. But could he find a match? Jeff is African-American, and the registry is 73% white. Minorities are vastly underrepresented. So Jeff's family started their own search here in Las Vegas. Did they find a match? Why do so few minorities register? What happens to the sick patients in the countries that have no registry at all? And why do officials say so many people are afraid to register in the first place? We talk to 3 men: one who sought to find his match before time ran out, another who got 100,000 people to register after his mother died, and a third who filmed a documentary called "More to Live For" about racing the clock to find a match.
David Bain goes through 10 gallons of milk and 40 loads of laundry every week. That's because he and his wife have 13 kids. They're foster parents - taking in kids who have suffered from neglect and other abuses. So besides a big fridge, what does it take to raise a foster family? How do you navigate carpooling and taking your kid to family court? How do you deal with biological parents with drug addictions, and how do you hand a child back to her family after she has lived with you for years? We talk to David Bain and other foster parents about what it takes to make a family.
In 2006, Dominic Gill hopped on a tandem bike and started pedaling. He biked from Alaska to the tip of South America, and along the way, he picked up strangers to bike with him.
Remember the days when a driver would stop and help someone with a flat tire? Or when someone would buy a homeless stranger a hot meal? What happened to those days? Do people still reach out to others? Two college filmmakers are traveling the United States and testing out the kindness of strangers, and they tell us what they found in Nevada. Do you reach out to help others? Or have you faced tough times, and has someone been kind to you? Are there any stories that really touched your heart? In this recession, where are we seeing the kindness of strangers? Share your story with us below.
Reed Cowan was a married father when he came out as gay. He was also a Mormon. His latest documentary, 8: The Mormon Proposition, claims the Mormon Church heavily influenced the Proposition 8 battle in California to stop gay marriage. We talk to Reed Cowan about his documentary, and how people are responding to it.
