Essays on Documentary

I am Not Your Negro is with no doubt an essential documentary as James Baldwin engages in issues of life, culture, and race. In the film, Baldwin seeks to stir discussions that are cultural related and debate through articulate thoughts as well as expressions of principle. Repetitively, the film reveals...

The documentary Bitter Lake offers some of the compelling insights that get to the bottom of the mystery behind the never-ending war in the Middle East, particularly in Afghanistan. Contrary to the majority of narratives that have been in existence in elucidating the cause of constant wars in the middle...

The Central Park Five Documentary The 2012 “Central Park Five” documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon describes the arrest, trial, conviction and later acquittal of five American youth for the horrific crime of assault, rape, and attempted murder of a female jogger, Trisha Meili on April 19, 1989...

Somm: A Documentary about the Master Sommelier Exam Somm is a documentary by Jason Wise that talks about the master sommelier exam. The documentary is about four men, DLynn, Dustin, Ian, and Brian, who have spared their lives to prepare for an exam. The four men memorize facts about making wines...

The film “Footprint: Where the Towers Stood” by Sara Newens is a short documentary submitted to The New York Times Op-Docs series. Op-Docs is a forum created by The New York Times editorial department where artists submit short opinionated documentaries. In this film, Newens covers activities at the site of...

The 2006 documentary film Cocaine Cowboys focused on Miami, Florida's drug wars and the rise of cocaine. Between the 1970s and 1980s, the epidemic of offenses that resulted swept through Miami. The film's creators spoke with former drug traffickers, criminal group members, journalists, law enforcement officials, and Miami attorneys who...

The Public Broadcasting Service documentary about Mileva Maric Einstein s Wife, which broadcast in October 2003, sparked public outrage over the underrepresentation of women in science. Geraldine Hilton, an Australian writer, claimed that Maric made a significant contribution to the Annus Mirabilis Papers of 1905. She carried...

The Internet Kid explores Aaron Swartz's life as a hacktivist and how it led to his demise. Brian Knappenberger's documentary shows how Swartz's knowledge and enthusiasm for the internet may have contributed to his death. Throughout the film, Swartz's interests in the computer world progress from fundamental applications to political...

The Documentary Film "Inside Job" The documentary film Inside Job examines the issues surrounding one of the most catastrophic financial crises that the United States has ever faced. Charles H. Ferguson, the director, analyzed the financial services industry in 2008 and attributed the impending catastrophe to systematic malfeasance. The video is...

Anand Patwardhan's Documentary and Violence in India Anand Patwardhan's documentary is regarded to be the root cause of violence in India. Anand shows the campaigns of a Hindu faction known as the Vishva Hindu Parishad to demolish the Bibra Masjid Muslim mosque and replace it with a Hindu temple devoted to...

Producing and directing the documentary “Raising Adam Lanza” is Frank Koughan. In addition, the documentary, which debuted on February 19, 2013, is a part of PBS Frontline episodes for season 31. The Hartford Courant, a Connecticut-based journalism organization, helped produce the documentary. Adam Lanza, who had conducted a mass shooting in...

The Anthropologist Documentary 'The Anthropologist' is a five-year documentary film directed by Daniel A. Miller, Seth Kramer, and Jeremy Newberger and released in 2015. (George Mason University).Collaboration between Anthropologists Susie Crate and Margret Mead, anthropologists, collaborated on the film with their daughters, Katie Yegorov-Crate and Mary Catherine Bateson. Katie and Susie work...