This thesis seeks to write a comprehensive history of documentary film in Africa, from the beginning of the cinema until the eve of independence in the late 1950s. It looks at documentary practice and ...

Chaves was a part of a research team focusing on the Brazilian aspect of the documentary film titled “Apocalypse In The Tropics,” which is now streaming on Netflix.

In an age of deep division — social, political, economic — storytelling can be a way to find common ground. And movies are one way that storytelling reaches across those divides. That’s especially ...

Director Mark Cousins explores 'The Story of Documentary Film' from the 1890s to the present in a new Sundance doc.

Documentaries and historical dramas offer those who witnessed major events firsthand the opportunity to see familiar times through new perspectives, enriched by archival materials that weren’t ...