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Nov 19

In ‘Saving Mes Aynak,’ a real-life Indiana Jones fights to protect Afghanistan’s Buddhist heritage

By Frank Carlson

Brent Huffman, the director behind the new documentary “Saving Mes Aynak,” tells the story of one of Afghanistan’s archaeological treasures and discusses the threats it faces from a Chinese mining company.

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Sep 24

One family’s lessons from learning to cope with Alzheimer’s

By Sarah McHaney

Every 67 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's, two-thirds are women. Pam White is one of them. But to documentary filmmaker Banker White, Pam is not just another Alzheimer’s patient, she is his mother. His film “The Genius…

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Sep 19

What’s your favorite Ken Burns film?

By News Desk

As "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" wraps tonight on PBS, we were wondering, out of the 25 films Ken Burns has created, which would you recommend if you could only pick one?…

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Jul 11

Filmmaker ponders married life after ‘112 Weddings’

By Anya van Wagtendonk

In a new film, documentarian and sometime-wedding videographer Doug Block revisits nine couples whose weddings he captured over the course of two decades. He wanted to answer two questions: what did you expect marriage to be going into it, and…

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Jun 26

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May 14

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Adapting to life after war in documentary ‘In Country’

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May 14

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American Vietnam Vet on re-enacting the war in ‘In Country’

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Mar 21

Treasure hunt for long-buried ‘E.T.’ video games to begin in New Mexico

By Justin Scuiletti

E.T. may have phoned home in the hit 1982 feature film, but the mass-produced 1982 video game of the same name had trouble finding enough homes to play it. In fact, so many cartridges went unsold or returned that a…

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Feb 27

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‘Boasting and guilt are two sides of the same coin’: Confronting Indonesia’s genocide in ‘The Act of Killing’

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Feb 27

Oscar-nominated ‘Dirty Wars’ aims to make a covert war more ‘real’

By Victoria Fleischer

“Dirty Wars” director Richard Rowley talks to chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about the dangers of investigating covert American wars in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia. Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill are both war reporters who have been…

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