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Times of Harvey Milk: Winning the Straight Vote
The real news footage from 1978 is just as shocking every time you see it. Dianne Feinstein, then a San Francisco Supervisor, addresses the media in a press conference. Looking dazed and confused,...
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Mitt
WHATEVER SIDE YOU’RE ON, SEE ANOTHER SIDE. After gaining special access to Mitt Romney’s family ahead of the 2008 Republican primaries, filmmaker Greg Whiteley ended up staying with the former...
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
One year before celebrated puppeteer Kevin Clash left his job on Sesame Street and career as the man behind Elmo, one of the show’s most enduring puppets, after allegations of improper sexual conduct...
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Director David Gelb originally intended to make a movie about several prominent sushi chefs, but Jiro Yoshino turned out to be special enough to merit his own documentary. The owner of a Michelin Guide...
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Client 9: The Luv Gov
MONEY. SEX. POWER. BETRAYAL. I remember admiring Eliot Spitzer from afar. That was when he was the New York State Attorney General, the famed “Sheriff of Wall Street”, who busted crooked bankers. I...
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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
YOU KNOW HER NAME. KNOW HER STORY. This documentary, which can be seen as an equally compelling companion piece to The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (2011), focuses on Angela Davis, the university...
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Blackfish
NEVER CAPTURE WHAT YOU CAN’T CONTROL. This documentary argues against keeping animals captive, especially big, dangerous ones that we train and let people pay to see, by telling the story of Tilikum,...
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The Unknown Known
WHY IS THIS MAN SMILING? In The Fog of War (2003), Errol Morris put former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in front of a camera and he revealed himself as a person living in a perpetual gray zone....
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2016: Obama’s America
LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM, YOU DON’T KNOW HIM. A surprise hit from conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza who set out to copy Michael Moore’s formula, by putting himself front and center and discard any...
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The Battered Bastards of Baseball
THE ONE TEAM THAT HAD A PAIR. There is obvious love for the game of baseball in this documentary about the rise and fall of the Portland Mavericks, a 1970s Minor League team. It’s also a passionate...
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Trespassing Bergman
Edited together (with partly new material) from a documentary series, this film examines (in chronological order) the career and films of Ingmar Bergman through the eyes of numerous prominent...
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To Be Takei
A STAR’S TREK FOR LIFE, LIBERTY AND LOVE. George Takei has come a long way from just being Sulu on Star Trek. This documentary paints a very likable portrait of him, showing the kind of influence he...
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The Square: Children of a Revolution
THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE DOWNFALL OF THE REGIME. Jehane Noujaim is an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker who years ago formed a professional relationship with D.A. Pennebaker and made...
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The Case Against 8
BATTLES ARE WON BECAUSE THEY ARE FOUGHT. In 2008, California voters said yes to Proposition 8, which denied the gay citizens of the state marriage; two years later, the decision was deemed...
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March of the Penguins
IN THE HARSHEST PLACE ON EARTH, LOVE FINDS A WAY. Co-produced by the National Geographic Society, this documentary examines up close a year in the lives of a group of emperor penguins in Antarctica. We...
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Night Will Fall: Film as a Weapon
Reading through message boards on the Internet Movie Database is a mixed experience. That’s where we find lots of opinions coming from idiots of a varying kind, uncompromising (and thus...
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Life Itself: Ebert’s Four-Star Journey
THE ONLY THING ROGER LOVED MORE THAN THE MOVIES. I first approached this film because of my interest in movies and as a fan of Roger Ebert as a film critic. Would it appeal to someone who didn’t care...
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Citizenfour: Holding Out in a Hong Kong Hotel
I try not to read too much about movies before I see them. This one took a while for me to finally catch, and it was impossible not to get a certain impression of what it would be like. Considering...
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Last Days in Vietnam
HOW MANY COULD BE SAVED? Many films have been made about the Vietnam War, but this documentary shows that its ending deserves to be told in a separate movie. Following the chaotic April week in 1975...
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Going Clear: A Church of Money and Fear
The Church of Scientology is a powerful organization, hard to defeat once you’ve become their enemy. Just ask the U.S. government. In the 1950s, L. Ron Hubbard’s group labeled itself a church and thus...
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