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It is not very often that I have felt a full-body shudder of horror from watching something on screen. But early in the documentary Collective, about the investigation and...
The cinematic portrayal of an antiquarian bookseller is usually of a gray-haired old guy in a tweed jacket who grumbles whenever he is disturbed by a customer. The bookstore...
When “gay cancer” started spreading in the early 1980s, so little was known about it, that it was not only terrifying to the gay community that it seemed to...
Though there are countless dramas of Jewish people hiding in Europe during World War II, The Invisibles focuses on a select group that many (including myself) may not know...
Whitney Houston was undeniably one of the biggest superstars in pop music, and inarguably one of the most talented. With a still-unmatched seven number one hits in a row,...
At one point in the documentary Dolores, about American farm workers’ labor activist Dolores Huerta, her daughter says, “We need to set the record straight! Women cannot be written...
In 2006, Vice President Al Gore used his fame to explode environmentalism into the mainstream. Using a PowerPoint slide presentation as the core of his message, he managed to...
There’s something so unreal and ephemeral about carnivals that it’s almost strange to think about them in practical terms. They appear every year with their dependable variations on rides,...
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was of a generation of American kids that was not taught about Vietnam. Sure, some kids had fathers that fought or...
While other modern reality shows have had people looking for husbands and wives, or “surviving” on tropical islands while trying to win peanut butter sandwiches, PBS has taken their...
Using a curious, sometimes wobbly, sometimes fascinatingly cool mix of fiction and documentary, National Geographic’s series Mars presents a space drama supported by the historical science that made it...
“My grandparents were colored. My parents were Negroes. And me, I’m black.” So says the amiable host and creator of Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Henry...
