In the 1990s, director/photographer Lauren Greenfield began a project taking pictures of high school students at her affluent Los Angeles alma mater, Crossroads. One of the shots was of a group of boys flashing what Greenfield thought were dollar bills at her. Later at home, when she reviewed the camera’s film, she…
“If you’ve got access to a microphone, please use it to say something,” M.I.A. says in a trailer for the documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., released on Thursday.
Last year, it was announced that Jay-Z was producing (along with a pre-disgraced Weinstein Company) a docuseries based on the life and death of Trayvon Martin. Having landed at the Paramount Network, the trailer for the six-episode series, Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, is here.
Last week, just hours before it debuted, news broke that the Michael Jackson estate was not happy with a two-hour ABC special dedicated to the King of Pop’s final moments. MJ’s estate claimed that the documentary, The Last Days of Michael Jackson, was in no way “sponsored or approved” by the late star’s family and…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pulling in audiences. The documentary RBG, which covers the life of our beloved Supreme Court Justice, has been quietly raking in the dough at the box office.
After Lifetime dropped the ball last year with their Michael Jackson biopic, you’d hope the TV movie fascination with the King of Pop’s last moments would be over. And yet, here we are. On Thursday night, ABC will air a two-hour documentary titled The Last Days of Michael Jackson, and Jackson’s estate does not…
The estate-approved Whitney Houston documentary, Whitney, premiered on Wednesday at Cannes, and with it came a set of devastating revelations about the late singer’s life.
In 2014, a nation was gripped by Serial, a podcast that introduced Adnan Syed and the murder of his then-girlfriend Hae Min Lee to the world, kicking off a true crime boomlet from which we are still recovering. Four years later, we will get The Case Against Adnan Syed, a documentary series on HBO, directed by Amy…
The teaser for the estate-approved Whitney Houston documentary, Whitney, seemed like it wouldn’t be stacked with new revelations about the beloved singer. But the latest trailer offers a few more moments of reflection, sorrow, and shade.
On Tuesday, Variety reported that Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, is tackling the development of its first feature-length documentary: a look at the legacy of legendary lesbian tennis player Martina Navratilova, which will highlight her social and political activism on behalf of women and the…
From RuPaul to Lady Bunny, drag queens have attracted the mainstream spotlight in recent years. But those who love the art form beyond Drag Race know that there’s far more to drag than performances of over-the-top femininity. Drag kings and male impersonators have been perfecting and honing their own performances of…
A true crime docuseries based on Michelle McNamara’s excellent and absorbing book, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, is coming to HBO, helmed by the brilliant and prolific documentarian Liz Garbus.
The act of watching a documentary in the same room as the subject’s family and friends is a harrowing experience, especially when the subject isn’t there to witness it. For the past two years, co-directors Kate Davis and David Heilbroner have closely followed the case of Sandra Bland, and Wednesday night was the first…
The drama that forged the Hula-Hoop craze is apparently much more cutthroat than one might think. That story finally gets told in an upcoming short documentary (featured in the Tribeca film festival, which kicked off on Wednesday), called Hula Girl.
In this clip for the film Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland—an HBO documentary about the ambiguous, unsettling details surrounding Bland’s death—family members recall all the doubts they had in the days and months after she died.
In this clip from A Suitable Girl, a documentary about the divisive tradition of arranged marriages in India, a woman named Amrita explains the burden of being seen as a man’s property. “You lose your identity when you get married, and that’s one thing I never wanted to do,” she says. “More than eighty precent of…
On September 3, 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor was walking home from a church revival in rural Alabama. That evening, she later reported, she was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by six white teenage boys. According to court records, her attackers said they’d kill her if she talked. She talked anyway, which led to a…
Here’s a glimpse at RBG, the upcoming documentary about the beloved Supreme Court Justice, ranging from her legal battles to her modern-day status as a meme.
PARK CITY, UTAH — Seeing Allred, a Netflix documentary that premiered at Sundance, features footage of subject Gloria Allred on the talk show Dinah! in 1977. Allred, in a brown suit and bowl-cropped hairdo, pops up from the audience to respond to a question from the host, Dinah Shore, about the outdated expectations…
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a new documentary about famed feminist attorney Gloria Allred will soon be available to stream on Netflix, following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
