What's your favorite documentary film?

Ian Aitken, editor of the Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, claims that  ‘documentary’ was the very first cinema genre, as the first movies made and seen by audiences were in the 1890s were 'actuality' films.

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In the annals of showbusiness history, its biggest stars — Elvis, Madonna, Oprah, Liberace and Abigail — have only ever required one name. To that honour roll we must add one more: Skippy.

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The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Tuesday over a challenge to a campaign finance law by a conservative group in a case that could open the door to fewer restrictions on political advertising.

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The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled its narrative, documentary and Discovery competition roster Monday morning, featuring a new streamlined event with 84 features and 46 shorts screening April 22 - May 3.

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New film "The Shock Doctrine," based on Naomi Klein's bestseller of the same name, argues that governments the world over exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market policies.

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The documentary film, Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer, about vocalist Anita O'Day (1919-2006), has opened in various locations in North America.

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More than 70 US newspapers have been helping to distribute a DVD of a documentary film, Obsession: Radical Islam's war against the West, that has been criticised as Islamophobic.

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Frank Rich writes: THE night before last week's Senate hearings on our "progress" in Iraq, a goodly chunk of New York's media and cultural establishment assembled in the vast lobby of the Museum of Modern Art.

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A national preserve of documentary films about American Roots Cultures

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The mustache is back as a style accessory. It is also the subject of a documentary film. Would women date a man wearing a mustache?

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Jarecki interviews people from all parts of the machinery: a grandmother who pushes missiles around a factory floor but confesses she would rather work in a toy factory, an optionless youngster signing up for the army and a Vietnamese immigrant who escaped one war and now designs

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This is a well-written preview of almost every film at Sundance this January.

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Rocker Tommy Lee is the documentary subject of Bruce Sinofsky. We're still impressed with his "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster." He also did a great job with "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills."

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