The late Stephen “Wolf” Cummings was committed to a psychiatric institution known as the Hawthorne Center outside of Detroit before he even hit his teenage years. It was an anguished period of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick Wiseman, a dean of documentary filmmaking whose immersive chronicles of communities and institutions — including a ...

According to a 2025 report by Statista, almost 10% of college students receiving mental health care were hospitalized from 2023 to 2024. Hospitalizations are, sometimes, a necessary component of ...

Documentaries are having their moment! Maybe you’ve noticed, maybe you haven’t, but documentaries are SUPER in right now. Why? They’re a great way to be informed on different issues in society, ...

Changfu Chang has always been drawn to life’s stories. “Documentaries are grounded in our human experience. It is a powerful platform for us to engage and (create) discourse and dialogue,” said Chang, ...

The documentary was an elegy for all the people — “psychiatric patients” who had died and been buried, perhaps in a cemetery attached to the hospital, perhaps in a nearby field. In essentially ...