As a photography major in college, I studied all the "famous" photographers and their "important" images. But what we did not see were photographers of color and their important images.…
In January of 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras began receiving emails from a mysterious person who only identified himself as "citizenfour" and who had information about US government surveillance on a…
The last two days of the festival I spent in AFI's Silver Spring theaters. All the films were shown in both the downtown DC venues and at the AFI home…
As Arty Chick, I am a great lover of the documentary genre and this year's AFI DOCS in Washington, DC sated my docu-hunger quite well. As with any festival, there…
The AFI Documentary Festival opened in Washington, DC on June 18th with a selection that proved both informative and entertaining: Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey. I’ve been living under a rock,…
If you've never heard of the Koch Brothers, Charles and David, then this film could give you a bit of an introduction to the enormous power they currently wield in…
This documentary recounts the strange but true tale of a group of Europeans in the 1930s who decided to leave the insanity of the modern world behind and move to…
A couple of years ago, an unknown but super talented street photographer's work started showing up in art blogs and around the net. The images shot between the 50s and…
Joshua Oppenheimer’s Oscar nominated The Act of Killing has got to be one of the most unsettling documentaries ever made. In it, men who murdered thousands (some estimates are 1…
The Square is an extremely engaging documentary that puts you right in the middle of Cairo's Tahrir Square during the first 2 years of the still unfolding Egyptian revolution. It…
I don’t particularly like lists – especially where movies are concerned because so much depends on what you're hoping to gain, and the kind of mood you’re in. I generally…
Robert Reich is the star of this documentary that examines the current enormous and ever widening income gap in the United States and the demise of our middle class. If…
Roger Ross Williams’ powerful documentary God Loves Uganda shines a light on the American evangelical Christian group that instigated Uganda's horrid anti-gay movement. Focusing on the Kansas City church called…
20 Feet From Stardom is one of those documentaries that’s just plain fun, and interesting to watch - for the music and the story. It’s not quite as good as…
This shortish documentary (61 minutes) tells the story of two people living on opposite sides of the earth who were both persecuted for their belief in Falun Gong, a modern…
