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Jul 10

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New documentary ‘Amy’ reveals an artist greater than her downfall

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Amy Winehouse was a mega-pop star, a singer with a multi-platinum album. But she's just as well-known for her struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and her troubled relationships, which played out in front of the paparazzi before her death…

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Jun 23

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Parents of slain teen Jordan Davis turn to film to raise awareness

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When unarmed black teenager Jordan Davis was shot by a white man at a gas station, his mother and father struggled to get justice, but ultimately saw their son’s murderer convicted. Senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at a new film…

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Jun 02

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Street Sense gives homeless creative tools to build careers and help others

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Street Sense publishes the only newspaper by and for the homeless in Washington, D.C. The organization has long trained participants in journalism and writing, and now it's expanding to offer more education in the arts and digital media, like photography…

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Apr 28

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Chaos and the human costs of the Vietnam War’s final days

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The fall of Saigon is a story we think we know, says filmmaker Rory Kennedy. But in "Last Days in Vietnam," a new documentary airing on PBS' American Experience, the people who were there tell the almost unbelievable stories of…

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Mar 30

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Documentary chronicles the ‘resistance movement’ against cancer

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Mar 30

Ken Burns and Siddartha Mukherjee on adapting ‘Cancer’ from page to screen

By Kyla Calvert Mason

At a time when documentaries are getting more attention from mainstream moviegoers, Ken Burns, the documentarian behind epics including “The Civil War," “Baseball” and two dozen other films, says the best advice he can offer aspiring filmmakers may seem like…

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Mar 10

Banned documentary examines brutal Delhi gang rape

By Larisa Epatko

A documentary produced by the BBC focuses on the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in India. It was a watershed moment in women’s rights in the nation of 1.2 billion but the movie could not be…

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Mar 05

Watch the viral documentary raising awareness about air quality in China

By Larisa Epatko

Chinese journalist and environmental activist Chai Jing describes in a video that’s gone viral the moment China’s pollution problem hit home. She was bringing her sick infant daughter home from the hospital and felt compelled to cover her nose with…

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Dec 05

In ‘Barefoot Artist,’ Lily Yeh confronts painful past in her journey to heal communities through art

By Victoria Fleischer

“The Barefoot Artist” is a documentary portrait of Lily Yeh, an artist who has worked with communities all over the world, what she calls "broken places." The film follows her life as an artist and an intimate, family history that…

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Nov 19

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After Gulf oil spill, filmmaker returns to see what happened when the cameras had gone

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More than four years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, gushing oil into the Gulf Coast for almost three months before it was capped. Despite settlements and clean-up efforts, some communities have never fully recovered. Filmmaker Margaret Brown joins…

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