Documentary Films and Programs

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‘My Robot Sophia’: An Unsettling Look Into the Soul of a Machine

In 2017, a robot named Sophia was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, a dubious move on many fronts. Real human women.

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‘Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted’ Review: In the Deep End

Premises for documentaries don’t come much more casual than in “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted,” a profile organized around.

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Milestone Films Will Be Given Away to Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive

Milestone Films is a small but mighty distribution company dedicated to discovering works that have been lost to history, restoring.

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‘Pavements’: A Sly Ode to the Last Band You’d Give the Biopic Treatment

Everybody thinks they know their favorite musicians or bands inside and out: what the lyrics mean, when their style changed,.

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Martin Scorsese Interviews Pope Francis in Upcoming Documentary ‘Aldeas’

Martin Scorsese will produce a new documentary featuring an on-camera interview with Pope Francis that was recorded at Vatican City.

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‘Pavements’ Blurs Fact and Fiction to Reimagine a Band’s Legacy

The Bob Dylan Center gathered some 6,000 items from the musician’s archive in an Oklahoma museum. Green Day’s “American Idiot”.

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Three Great Documentaries to Stream

The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we select three.

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Andrea Nevins, Who Made Touching Films on Quirky Topics, Dies at 63

Andrea Nevins, a documentary filmmaker who brought sensitivity and depth to seemingly lighthearted stories about underdogs and unlikely heroes, including.

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‘Drop Dead City’: When New York Was on the Financial Brink

There’s a bit of a puzzle at the center of “Drop Dead City” (in theaters), the new documentary about that.

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‘Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie’ Review: Rolling Another One for the Road

It is not quite accurate to state that had recreational marijuana use been legal in the early 1970s, the comedy.

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