Remember Batkid? The leukemia patient who made the entire world cry oceans of tears and let out deafening awwwwws after his Make-a-Wish project turned San Francisco into Gotham for a day? His story was turned into a documentary called Batkid Begins, and its trailer has just been released.
Conscious clothing consumers know about the human rights issues that fast fashion poses—those cheap, trendy t-shirts everyone cops at retail chains were most likely made by mostly-women garment workers doing their jobs in terrible conditions for astonishingly little pay. The fires and building collapse at factories in…
In 2009, photographer Gillian Laub published a series of photos documenting the high school proms in the tiny Georgia community of Montgomery County, which was remarkable because the proms were racially segregated. Though the students grew up together, played together, and went to Montgomery County High together,…
A clip from the upcoming Amy documentary, directed by British filmmaker Asif Kapadia, has been released, showing a glimpse into the songwriting process of Amy Winehouse.
Andrew Wardle may have been born without a peen, but that hasn’t stopped him from sleeping with over 100 women. The 40-year-old U.K. man has an extremely rare defect called penile agenesis, which occurs once in every 5 to 6 million births. Out of all his sexual conquests, Wardle claims to have only told 20% of them…
He Named Me Malala, a documentary about Malala Yousafzai directed by Davis Guggenheim will get a global release by Fox Searchlight. Right on.
Amy, the documentary about the life of gone-too-soon crooner Amy Winehouse, has both a poster and a U.K. release date.
Caroll Spinney, the 80-year-old man behind Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar, is finally getting his moment in the limelight with the documentary I Am Big Bird. The film is set to hit theaters on May 6th and what the fuck? What is happening to my face? Water. Water emerging from my eyes in an unstoppable waterfall of…
"You don't see me as I see myself, but you're very good what you do see me as... I see myself as a little girl and all that. [My mother] sees me as a baby and I see myself as some kind of a little girl," says Little Edie as she, three-quarters of the way through Grey Gardens, talks with the Maysles brothers and…
If there's anything you can't accuse porn of being, it's "too boring" or "non-controversial." And yet, when I speak to Bryn Pryor, the director of X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time, he tells me that a lot of the documentary was edited down because Showtime thought it was just that—too much history, not…
Actor and filmmaker Griffin Dunne is making a movie about his aunt, Joan Didion, called We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live (the title of the film, you'll note, is a Didion quote).
In July, Andreja Pejic, the Serbian-born Australian model who rose to fame for her androgynous look and style, came out as a trans woman. Now, she and a filmmaker friend are creating a documentary about her past as well as her uncertain future in modeling and are asking for support for their Kickstarter campaign.
A new documentary called Burt's Buzz gives viewers a look at the life of the founder of Burt's Bees.
The teaser/trailer for The Illusionists is out and it's nothing if not intriguing. Promising to expose "the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us" is a pretty big claim, but from the looks of it, this doc delivers.
Filmmaker Christopher Wiegand's ridiculous looking documentary, American Blogger is supposedly a film about the world of blogging, so long as you ignore everyone who isn't a gorgeous white lady living in a beautiful home.
Yoruba Richen's documentary The New Black (opening today at New York's Film Forum) achieves what seemed impossible before it: It examines the generalized notion that the black community is homophobic with specificity and subtlety. Using the backdrop of the fight for marriage equality in Maryland in 2012 (where it was…
"A Cat's Guide To Loving A Human" is the cat video to end all cat videos, in that now we finally have a true insight into how they think and why they do the things they do.
In case you live under a rock made out of socially valuable things like your family, real news and various important social causes you are devoted to, you know that Britney Spears debuted in Las Vegas this weekend.
Many of us are taught to hold our virginity close — to tuck it deep inside That Which Is Most Sacred until a modern day Jesus finally proposes and we can finally unclench our vaginal walls and let in the Married Penis Divine.
Valeria Lukyanova started the trend of young girls in Odessa turning themselves in walking, talking Barbie dolls, and now she has her own VICE documentary, Space Barbie. It's called that because she looks like she's made of plastic and thinks she's from outer space.
