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There was ample opportunity this week to turn on the television and wonder why we were watching. The screens were filled with non-news stories about Elizabeth Edwards, Jon & Kate, and Miss California, Carrie Prejean.
A producer who has collaborated with Farrah Fawcett is suing over an upcoming documentary about her battle with cancer.
The Gospel Music Channel will shine the spotlight on "American Idol."
Poland's Jews were nearly wiped out in the Nazi Holocaust, then the communists who ruled the country for decades after World War II waged anti-Semitic campaigns and made Jewish history a taboo topic.
Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard says in a new documentary that he still struggles with his sexuality yet is committed to his marriage for the sake of his children.
"No topic was off limits. No question went unanswered." That's what we were told at the beginning of the MTV documentary "Britney: For the Record."
"Britney: For the Record" might offer an inside glimpse into the pop star's life, but offering up tidbits about her failed relationship with Kevin Federline wasn't the goal of the documentary.
Madonna's awakening to the crisis in Malawi — an impoverished African nation where one million children are orphaned by AIDS — had many consequences.
Retired Army Sgt. Angela Peacock once was outgoing, competitive and athletic. These days, she barely functions, trusts no one and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder that prevents her from working.
A documentary that portrays the revered founder of modern Turkey as a lonely womanizer with a weakness for alcohol and cigarettes is drawing massive crowds but outraging hardline followers of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular tradition.
HBO has bought the U.S. rights to a behind-the-scenes documentary on Barack Obama's presidential campaign from actor Edward Norton's production company.
LeBron James has gone from the gold-medal stand to the silver screen.
A 40-year-old documentary about Johnny Cash to air on the Public Broadcasting Service shows him in concert and in casual settings. But unlike the 2005 movie "Walk the Line," there's no mention of his well-documented substance abuse.
Several Japanese movie theaters canceled showings of a documentary about a controversial war shrine after at least one theater received threats, a cinema official said Monday.
A group of Columbia University students is hoping to capture some of the grass-roots energy behind Democrat Barack Obama's White House bid — by filming his supporters on the home turf of his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Some of the assertions in Al Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary are not supported by scientific evidence, a British judge said in ruling on a challenge from a school official who did not want the film shown to students.
The world premiere of "Three Days in the Life," a documentary about John Lennon, was canceled after lawyers for the slain Beatle's widow, Yoko Ono, warned that she had not authorized any public viewing of the film.
The defrocked priest is by turns remorseful and flippant as he recounts in graphic detail a lifetime of sexually abusing children. Then, near the end of "the most honest confession of my life," he turns to the movie camera to wink and smile at his victims.
Twelve years after breaking up, the Pixies were more popular and influential than when they were together.
Movie Review - 'The War on Kids' - Cevin Solingâ??s Documentary Asks What Ails Public Schools? - NYTimes.comA shocking chronicle of institutional dysfunction, "The War on Kids" likens our public school system to prison and its disciplinary methods to fascism. At least now you know why little Johnny won't get out of bed in the morning.
Four Eyed Monsters Movie ReviewFour Eyed Monsters (2005) is a truly original and artistic narrative film; part drama, part documentary. As part of the project there are also thirteen webisodes that make this experience more than a movie. It is a story of a relationship at its core but turned into so much more.
Roma children perplex local educators - Parentcentral.caThey are Europe's Least Wanted – reviled for their unorthodox ways, hounded by white supremacists. Now the sudden arrival of Roma "gypsies" in Ontario has teachers here grappling to connect with some of the most perplexing students in the world.
9/11: The Unofficial Story (CBC documentary)Eight years after 9/11, why are doubts growing about the official record of that day?
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Nauseous mumblingsRECENTLY I was fortunate enough to be a part of an excellent ten-minute news video prepared by the New York Times' reporter, Adam Ellick. Tastefully called 'Tuning out the Taliban,' the video has created the right buzz amongst young middle-class Pakistanis.
The End of Poverty? (2008) is a startling documentary that brings comprehension to the origin of global poverty.
And the Oscar for Best Picture Goes to 'Michael Jackson's This Is It?'THE MICHAEL JACKSON documentary has been tipped to win the best picture gong after an incredible reaction at an Oscars screening. This Is It received "the most enthusiastic response I've ever witnessed", a veteran Oscar voter said after the Academy screening in LA.
Apple - Movie Trailers - CollapseAmericans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best.
Apocalypse now: 'Collapse' and the end of the world as we know itAmerica has a bad case of the doomsday jitters. You don't have to be a Glenn Beck follower to know that whenever things go wrong in this country, you can always find all the anger, bitterness and fear-mongering bubbling up and over into our popular culture.
Watching "By The People: The Election of Barack Obama"I've been toying around with some comments on the Obama campaign documentary that aired last week, but every time I got started on them, something else came up. Election Night. The Fort Hood shootings. The healthcare bill passing the in the House of Representatives.
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On November 3rd, HBO will be airing for the first time Ed Norton's documentary "By The People: The Election of Barack Obama". This documentary is no ordinary film piece. As luck would have it, it was started long before Obama's meteoric rise to the Presidency.
Documentary: American CasinoAnyone who already understands the current economic disaster will find little new in "American Casino." But for the rest of us, this "Frontline"-esque documentary is at turns eye-opening (a former mortgage broker smilingly admits that he, and everyone he worked with, regularly al …
Medina: WW II veteran's color war films discoveredA World War II veteran is making another contribution to U.S. history, more than 60 years after the Bronze Star recipient served his country. Herman Graebner, 89, remembers virtually every detail of his four years in the U.S. Army.
Film on the Dolphin Hunt Stirs Outrage in Japan For years, dolphin hunts off the seaside town of Taiji, which turn coastal waters red with blood each winter, have drawn the ire of Western activists. But few among the Japanese public seemed to care, or even know, about the slaughter.
Filmmaker Captures the 'Many Sides' of Leonard Cohen -- Exclusive Video - SpinnerFilmmaker Captures the 'Many Sides' of Leonard Cohen -- Exclusive Video
Film Premiering in 27 Countries Sunday Documents Human Costs of Global Warming HysteriaThe global waming fear mongers are increasingly being challenged as their predictions are not panning out and their thesis is being questioned by large percentages of the populations in various nations.
Starsuckers celebrity hoax dupes tabloidsThe plan to subvert the pages of some of Fleet Street's bestselling newspapers was hatched in a windowless office in east London.
"For Liberty" a compelling look at the KingmakersFor Liberty, a documentary of the Ron Paul grassroots movement, deserves attention.
Moore False TeachingNear the end of his "love story" Moore lines up a series of Catholic clergy to agree with his general premise that Capitalism is evil. Moore's hypocrisy aside (is he charging people to see his movie?) this premise is not at all Catholic.
ABC News: Are 'Dead Peasant' Life Insurance Policies Fair? excerpt: "" Are 'Dead Peasant' Life Insurance Policies Fair?. The anchors were "stunned" to find that this is going on after watching Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism a Love Story.
Nine Days that Changed the WorldFormer Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich, a recent convert to Catholicism, is producing a forthcoming documentary about Pope John Paul II's first return visit to Poland in June 1979.
BBC puts wildlife footage onlineClips from 30 series made available on BBC website with introduction by David Attenborough
Scene & Heard: CrudeMosaec.com's Scene & Heard Q&A with Joe Berlinger, the director of Crude.
Michael Moore's Smash and GrabCapitalism: a Love Story doesn't just go after the seamy side of the American economy, although that is captured neatly in the scenes of "condo vultures" feeding on Florida's housing bust, alongside the corporations (including Wal-Mart and Amegy Bank) which take out insurance pol …
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