Tag: Documentary

True-crime television has trained audiences to recognize the emergency call as a narrative trigger. A voice ...

Fifty thousand people can easily become scenery. L.I.V.E. in São Paulo refuses them that fate. Bring ...

Ahsen Nadeem announces himself as “a fantastic liar,” and the confession lands with the peculiar lightness ...

Stanley Rother’s story acquires much of its force from the distance between two farming communities. He ...

John C. Lilly feels like a figure created from several different cultural traditions colliding at once. ...

War documentaries often face a difficult choice: explain the machinery of violence or remain close to ...

Travel television usually depends on a host who can make unfamiliar places feel welcoming. Conan O’Brien ...

Fifteen years can turn a golf course into a repository of private ghosts. Augusta National offered ...

Coss Marte has one of those biographies documentary filmmakers usually spend an entire feature trying to ...

Grief has no private room in Sanjivani Bhure’s life. It follows her into the fields, sits ...