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Interview: Director Joshua Tebeau Talks Picking Up the Pieces

Picking Up the Pieces is a short documentary that seeks to answer one very big question: “How do you live after surviving the Holocaust?” Directed, written, and produced by Joshua Tebeau, Picking Up...

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15 Documentary Features on the 2015 Oscar Shortlist

15 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES ADVANCE IN 2015 OSCAR® RACE Here are the 15 films that made the cut from the original 124 contenders. Amy, On the Corner Films and Universal Music Best of Enemies, Sandbar...

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Doc Highlight: My Enemy, My Brother

Kicking off our look at some of this year’s Oscar contenders is the short documentary My Enemy, My Brother. Directed by Canadian filmmaker Ann Shin, whose résumé includes the award-winning film The...

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Review: Meru

Is Meru thrilling? Yes. Breathtaking? Incredibly so. Are there scenes that will make you nervous? Many. Some reviewers have called Meru terrifying. “Terrifying” seems like such an ill-fitted word to...

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A Look Back at 2015

In June 2015 Documentary Drive came to life! Over the last 7 months, I’ve had the opportunity to interview three extraordinarily talented filmmakers and review many wonderful and diverse films. As the...

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BAFTAS 2016: Best Documentary Nominees

Nominations for the 2016 British Academy Film Awards were announced on January 8th. Here are the films up for Best Documentary: Amy Cartel Land He Named Me Malala Listen to Me Marlon Sherpa Amy is also...

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Rocket Wars vs. Rocket-War

Depending on how long you’ve been a reader, you may remember that last August Rocket Wars by Variable was featured as a “Doc of the Week” here on Documentary Drive. The film uses the latest high tech...

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Oscar Nominees 2016: The Chosen Docs

Here they are! This year’s Academy Award nominees for Documentary Feature and Documentary Short Subject: Documentary Feature Amy Cartel Land The Look of Silence What Happened, Miss Simone? Winter on...

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Milana Vayntrub’s Short Documentary on Refugees in Lesbos & the...

Milana Vayntrub is an American actress whose face you’ve likely seen many times as the patient wireless saleswoman Lily Adams in a series of ad campaigns by AT&T. She has also appeared in a long...

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Review: He Named Me Malala

He Named Me Malala will have its U.S. television premiere Feb. 29th on the National Geographic Channel, followed by a global debut on the network in 171 countries and 45 languages within a week after...

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Trailers: All 2016 Oscar Nominated Documentaries

Nominees for Best Documentary Feature “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”  “Amy” “The Look of Silence” “Cartel Land” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”   Nominees for Best Documentary Short...

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Review: ‘Chau, beyond the lines’

Generations born after the Vietnam War may have never heard of the herbicide Agent Orange, let alone realize how its dangerous chemicals still threaten millions of people’s health to this day. In the...

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Oscars: 2016 Documentary Winners

Best Documentary Short Subject: “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The film premieres on HBO March 7th. Best Documentary Feature: “Amy” directed by Asif...

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‘50 Feet from Syria’ Coming to CraveTV

Beginning Friday, March 4th, documentary fans in Canada will have the opportunity to stream the Oscar shortlisted film “50 Feet from Syria” exclusively on CraveTV. For more information, click here to...

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Review: ‘Jimmy on the Run’

Directed by Wytse Koetse, “Jimmy on the Run” is a captivating seven minute documentary about the life of Amsterdam fashion and street photographer Huang Jianmin, better known by his professional...

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Trailer for PBS Docu-Series ‘Soundbreaking’

Trailer for the eight-part documentary series “Soundbreaking,” coming to PBS in November 2016.

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RTÉ 1916 Centenary Collection and Doc Hub

To commemorate the centenary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, RTÉ has made available to international audiences a collection of free documentaries and programs about the historic rebellion that helped...

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Review: ‘A Small Good Thing’

William James Dawson, a discontent Londoner with an incurable “earth-hunger,” as he describes it, published a small book in 1907 entitled The Quest of the Simple Life. In it, he writes, “. . .my first...

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‘A Venue for the End of the World’ Trailer and Release News

Available today on VOD and DVD, “A Venue for the End of the World” explores the dangers of idol worship and crowd manipulation through the eyes of veteran performers like Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull,...

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Review: ‘SelectED’

Each year 10,000 students apply for a few hundred available seats at Whitney M. Young Magnet School, one of currently eleven selective enrollment public high schools in Chicago. For an entire year,...

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