Feb 27 Watch ‘Boasting and guilt are two sides of the same coin’: Confronting Indonesia’s genocide in ‘The Act of Killing’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 24 Watch Filmmakers try to shake ‘fairy tale story of change’ in documenting Egypt’s revolution By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 24 Watch Filmmakers try to shake ‘fairy tale story of change’ in documenting Egypt’s revolution By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 20 In Oscar-nominated ‘The Act of Killing,’ mass murderers boastfully reenact their war crimes By Victoria Fleischer The Oscar nominated documentary "The Act of Killing" challenges Anwar Congo, a death squad leader during the mass killings in 1965 Indonesia, to re-enact the horrors of his past. Director Joshua Oppenheimer spoke to the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about why… Continue reading
Feb 18 ‘The Invisible War’ Changing the Conversation on Rape in the Military Kori Cioca, a former member of the U.S. Coast Guard featured in the film "The Invisible War," was denied veteran's health benefits to cover treatment to her jaw, which she says was broken during a sexual assault by one of… Continue reading
Feb 16 End Black History Month? Weigh In With ‘More Than a Month’ Filmmaker Filmmaker Shukree Tilghman of the film "More Than a Month." Photo courtesy of Independent Lens on PBS. Updated 11:07 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17. | Join Hari Sreenivasan and African-American filmmaker Shukree Tilghman here on Friday at 3 p.m. Continue reading
May 20 Conversation: Geena Davis Hopes to Shift Gender Balance in Film Geena Davis has some experience with strong and complex female characters. She's played a meek-housewife-turned-bold-woman-on-the-run, a baseball star, a secret agent and an American president. She says it was her experience playing Thelma in "Thelma and Louise" that first piqued… Continue reading
May 12 Whether Joan Rivers or Genocide, Sundberg and Stern Find Compelling Stories After more than two decades, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern now have what Sundberg calls, "a long marriage of a work partnership." The documentary filmmakers founded Break-Thru Films in 1990 and began working on their first major, feature-length documentary in… Continue reading
Apr 27 ‘Better This World’ Looks at Domestic Terrorism, Political Activism Post-9/11 A new documentary, 'Better This World', follows the story of the Texas Two as they wrestle with how to defend themselves in court and deal with FBI pressure to betray each other. Continue reading
Apr 21 Morgan Spurlock Takes on Product Placement in ‘Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ Two years ago Morgan Spurlock, who starred in and directed "Super Size Me," and regular collaborator Jeremy Chilnick reached their tipping point with advertisements. They were watching the TV show "Heroes" when they were struck by… Continue reading