Showdown over the future of independent documentaries at PBS Proposal to move POV and Independent Lens to secondary station puts PBS and WNET in a bind February 26, 2015 By Chris Ip
Sonic storytelling October 16, 2014 By Damaris Colhoun Why filmmakers are tuning into experiences that we might otherwise ignore
Not-so-secret lives on smartphones July 24, 2014 By Chris Ip There may be no better way to report on the internal lives of others than to examine what’s on their phones
Drone man April 29, 2014 By Cora Currier If there’s a news story or a documentary about drones, chances are that Brandon Bryant is quoted in it
Crossing over April 22, 2014 By Edirin Oputu Hybrid documentary series Borderland recreates the treacherous journey that actual undocumented immigrants have attempted from Mexico to the US
The secret whistleblowers, revisited April 21, 2014 By Edirin Oputu The new documentary 1971, which premiered on Friday, reveals how a group of activists exposed the secrets of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI
Upsides to ‘I’ February 5, 2014 By Jina Moore Four journalists make the much-maligned first-person into a strong storytelling tool
The reasons Oscar should be horrified by The Act of Killing January 20, 2014 By Michael Canyon Meyer Are the same reasons it deserves to win best documentary
After the battle December 23, 2013 By Jina Moore A photographer talks about his journey since documenting his wife’s death from breast cancer
Refugee Hotel December 16, 2013 By Jina Moore The Bronx Documentary Center is showing the exhibit through December 21
Beyond the soldier cliches November 11, 2013 By Jina Moore After 10 years in Iraq, photojournalists seek new vocabularies of war
The little team that could November 4, 2013 By Edirin Oputu The new documentary Medora tells the story of a struggling Indiana town through its high school basketball team
The Square resists the usual characters October 29, 2013 By Jina Moore A new documentary on the Egyptian revolution makes the uprising, rather than the uprising’s participants, its centerpiece
Invoking ‘reporter’s privilege’ for documentary footage October 25, 2013 By Lauren Kirchner Making sense of recent rulings, and considering best practices
The human face of healthcare debates October 21, 2013 By Jina Moore A documentary chronicles "24 hours. 241 patients. 1 stretched ER"
Watch where you’re going October 15, 2013 By Jina Moore In "Where I Am Going," an advocacy group enlists the power of visual storytelling to tackle stop-and-frisk
