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CORRECTION APPENDEDThe life of Robert A. Durst could be the stuff of legend. The shrewd, enigmatic scion of a prominent New York real estate family, Mr. Durst has come to [...]

How to make that long talking-head interview visually interesting? What to do if certain images essential to your story aren't available? These are common issues that documentary makers resolve with [...]

Even before the first-time feature directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth knew how their film about the rock musician Nick Cave would take shape, they had a very clear sense [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander George Takei and William Shatner's post-Star Trek skirmish moves to a new chapter with Friday's opening of the documentary To Be Takei. Some highlights since Takei departed [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLOS ANGELES -- You watched the wrenching documentary. You posted your outrage on Twitter. But are you good for more than a few easy keystrokes of hashtag activism? Participant […]

Byline: JoAnne Klimovich Harrop April 03--Rape is a topic people don't want to discuss. But the silence can cause additional harm. Linor Abargil made sure the man who raped and [...]

Byline: Michael Cavna Nearly two decades after he last sent Calvin and Hobbes exploring, Bill Watterson got an offer he decided not to refuse. Web cartoonist Dave Kellett had done [...]

ROXBURY, Vt. -- ''Look up at those leaves and then frame them with your fingers,'' Ed Pincus said, facing an enormous maple tree covered in orange and red. He arranged [...]

It all began with ''An American Family.'' Without the dysfunctional Louds and the riveting real-life drama of their household, televised by PBS in 1973, there may never have been an [...]

Of the 400 hours of footage that the independent filmmakers Grant Barbeito and Christo Brock gathered on the swimming champion Missy Franklin and her training partner Kara Lynn Joyce, one [...]

The article focuses on the documentary " 76105: Dr. King Won't Rise", produced by an organization Community Frontline, founded by students of the Texas Christian University (TCU). Topics discussed include addressing community issues such as education, criminal justice and community development, screening of this motivational film in film festivals, and opportunity to learn about film making.

As a substitute teacher in Boston during the 1970s school-busing crisis there, Orlando Bagwell was attacked by a mob and kicked into the street. He was rescued by a bus [...]

Byline: Robert Bianco and Gary Levin USA TODAY With the Newtown tragedy fresh in the public's mind, PBS plans to devote the week of Feb. 18 to an After Newtown [...]

TUCKED within the syllabus for a class that the filmmaker and anthropologist Lucien Castaing-Taylor teaches at Harvard is a rhetorical question that sums up his view of nonfiction film: ''If [...]

Byline: Tracy McVeigh It is difficult to imagine why anyone would not want Isabella Rossellini at their party. But according to the 60-year-old model and actress, her age has led [...]

THE storefront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that will someday be House of Good, James Murphy's ''personal store'' -- cheap Chinese sneakers, whimsical socks, candy from Denmark -- is presently filled with [...]

Byline: Chuck Raasch, USA TODAY Karen Bass is on a bear hunt. The British-born producer of National Geographic's four-part Untamed Americas series, airing June 10-11 on the group's networks, is [...]

I think A A Gill might fancy himself as a patrician. Google his image: the hairline, the vulpine grin ... stick him in a purple-edged toga and sandals and he'd [...]

Booker Wright, a black waiter in a whites-only restaurant in Greenwood, Miss., neither protested nor preached as the civil rights movement of the 1960s roiled the Delta. But the film [...]

''Frozen Planet,'' the seven-hour series that has attracted millions of viewers to the Discovery Channel in recent weeks, shows Earth in extremis. On this planet, the poles are violently cold, [...]

If you ''like'' something, does that mean you care about it? It's an important distinction in an age when you can accumulate social currency on Facebook or Twitter just by [...]

I SAT down to watch ''How to Survive a Plague,'' a new documentary about the history of the AIDS epidemic, expecting to cry, and cry I did: at the hollowed [...]

IT has long been assumed that filmmakers should tread carefully in the wake of tragedy. Whether confronting war or genocide, a terrorist attack or a natural disaster, the importance of [...]

It wasn't Magic Johnson's idea to participate in a documentary about his announcement that he had ''attained'' H.I.V. in 1991. He hadn't thought about it. But ESPN had. He has [...]

Byline: Stacy Teicher Khadaroo When he started making short documentaries with rural children and teenagers in Senegal, Jeremy Teicher's main goal was to get himself out of the way. The [...]

EVERY generation gets the rock documentary it deserves. As he followed the young Bob Dylan in 1965, D. A. Pennebaker captured a singer-songwriter in transition from boyish folkie to wary, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Like many teachers, Jamie Fidler does not end her workday when her students go home, mainly because she cannot afford to, she says. At 3:30 p.m., when the [...]

Byline: Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY 'It's so special,' says Eddie Vedder. 'It gets harder, but then it gets easier. You think, 'When they walk, it'll be so much easier.' Then [...]