Martha review: the Martha Stewart documentary
Martha was a well-done documentary about the long and varied life of “the original influencer” Martha Stewart.
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documentary films
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara – when fandom gets toxic
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara tells a horrible and unresolved story about 15 years of catfishing carried out by a fan or fans of Tegan and Sara. It is fandom gone toxic and hurt many people, including Tegan
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Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined, a PBS documentary
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined comes from the PBS series American Masters. It explores many years of the Dominican American writer’s career. It isn’t a complete look at all her work, but does tell a lot of her story. Alvarez
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Girls State, Missouri program gets a documentary look
Girls State follows many of the high school girls who attended a week long program for girls in leadership roles in the state of Missouri. This was an interesting year to document the program, because for the first time in
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How Do You Measure a Year? short doc about growing up
How Do You Measure a Year? from director and father Jay Rosenblatt captures 16 years of growth in a short documentary. Rosenblatt interviewed his daughter Ella every year on her birthday. This film is the result.
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Being Mary Tyler Moore, an influencer before the term was a thing
Being Mary Tyler Moore, a documentary from director James Adolphus, is less about Mary Tyler Moore as a person and more about her influence on culture and feminism.
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the icon’s own story
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, from director Lana Wilson, takes a look at Brooke Shields life and career from her point of view now as a woman in her 50s who has survived as a famous icon for her entire life.
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, let it blow your mind
From writer and director Nina Menkes, Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power explains how the politics of shot design on our screens affects sexual assault and employment discrimination against women. The documentary uses over 175 film clips to make its point.
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Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over
If you’re a certain age (like me), you can sing along with every Dionne Warwick song because you know all the lyrics by heart. In Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, the lady herself leads a retrospective look back at
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Descendant: meet descendants of the survivors from the last slave ship
Descendant is a sweeping tale of American history and of the descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the U.S. long after slave ships were outlawed. It’s a story of ancestry, survival, and American racism.
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