Riveting ‘Our American Family’ Shows “How Hard Families Touched By Addiction...
More than 91,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2020, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a federal agency. Those staggering numbers loom over the documentary Our...
View Article‘Eternal Spring,’ Oscar-Qualified In Three Categories, Tells Incredible Story...
In March 2002, untold millions of Chinese viewers were watching state-controlled television when the program was suddenly interrupted, replaced by a video defending the Falun Gong spiritual movement...
View ArticleA Pop Star Takes On An All-Powerful Dictator In ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s...
Pop star Bobi Wine gave up a comfortable life as an entertainer to take on a nearly impossible task: rescue his country from the clutches of a ruthless dictator. The inspiring story of the...
View ArticleThe Silencing Of A Sex Researcher Explored In Award-Winning ‘The...
Sex researcher Shere Hite became a media sensation in the mid-1970s with the publication of her groundbreaking study of female sexuality, The Hite Report. Then came the furious backlash. Hite’s...
View ArticleJust In Time For Halloween: ‘Satan Wants You’ Explores Origins Of Satanic...
In the 1990s, “Satanic Panic” swept North America and other parts of the world, a false belief that Devil worshipers were engaging in ritual abuse of children on a mass scale – drinking their blood,...
View ArticleSeen ‘Oppenheimer’? ‘Richland’ Tells Another Hidden Part Of America’s...
Christopher Nolan’s smash hit Oppenheimer renewed public interest in the Manhattan Project and the development of the nation’s nuclear weapons program. But there’s much more to the story than just the...
View Article‘To Kill A Tiger’: After An Indian Girl Is Sexually Assaulted, Her Father...
In a guest essay for the New York Times earlier this year, Indian journalist Vidya Krishnan wrote, “[T]here is no escaping India’s rape culture; sexual terrorism is treated as the norm.” She cited a...
View ArticleWho Would Donate A Kidney To A Stranger? Director Penny Lane Would – And She...
The famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked what she considered to be the earliest sign of the formation of human civilization. It wasn’t evidence of toolmaking or farming, in her estimation,...
View Article‘Breaking The News’ Shows How An Upstart Women-Run News Organization Is...
Most Americans have heard of Breonna Taylor, the young African American woman killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky in 2020 in a botched police raid. News of her tragic shooting helped spur the...
View ArticleYou Call This Paradise? The Chilling Reality Of Life In North Korea Exposed...
North Korea is an earthly paradise – at least, that’s the fiction its people are fed from birth by their dictatorial government. The reality is far, far grimmer, almost unimaginably so. Just how...
View Article‘Invisible Beauty’ Explores How Model-Turned-Agency-Chief Bethann Hardison...
At every stage of her career, from the fashion runway to the boardroom, Bethann Hardison has been a pioneer. Her remarkable journey through the highest echelons of the fashion world is explored in...
View Article‘Kokomo City’ Director D. Smith On How She Found Trans Stars Of Her...
The premiere of Kokomo City at the Sundance Film Festival last January heralded the arrival of a fresh new cinematic talent, D. Smith. Her directorial debut, a documentary about four Black trans women...
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