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Robert Caro celebrates his 90th birthday today.
Watch him in Ric Burns's 'New York: A Documentary Film.' The limited series tops our list of the best documentaries about New York City, found here: buff.ly/2OL2IYK buff.ly/GTikQgf
Happy birthday to Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger, best known for the 'Paradise Lost' trilogy. Here's our interview with Berlinger from 2014, when he was just getting seriously into docuseries production, of which he's now a staple. buff.ly/2DBDJDK
We look at why no dramatization of the story of the West Memphis Three can compare to the compelling accounts of the 'Paradise Lost' trilogy. buff.ly/2WsMCHn
Everyone knows Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's 'Paradise Lost' is a landmark of the true crime genre. Here's a look at why the sequel 'Paradise Lost 2: Revelations' should also be recognized as an important part of documentary history: buff.ly/4jQLZSq
The latest edition of This Week in Documentary is out now!
Highlights include new films by Jason Osder and Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, a TV history featuring Rick Moranis, and the Gotham nominees.
Find those and more in the newsletter here: buff.ly/yiFwPdu
"Once the rubber meets the road — and this has happened every time — you discover that real people don’t fit into boxes all that neatly." - 'Room 237' and 'The Nightmare' director Rodney Ascher
Read more of our interview here: buff.ly/wUwKgwS
In honor of 'Everest: The Other Side' coming out this week, we look back at the Oscar-winning documentary 'The Man Who Skied Down Everest' to see what makes a great mountain-climbing film: buff.ly/CPsIBug
On this date in 2014, Margaret Brown's 'The Great Invisible' was released.
Here's our review of the doc (now on Cineverse) about the aftereffects of the BP oil spill: buff.ly/4fn1oqv
Peter Watkins was born on this date in 1935. Roger Deakins on his films 'The War Game' & 'Culloden': "As fresh and innovative today as they were in the mid-’60s, but it is the power of their arguments that makes them so important as social documents.” buff.ly/2AyM0ca
In honor of Peter Watkins, who was born on this date in 1935, here's how to set a documentary in the future: buff.ly/2noTeWR
Animator and Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata was born on this date in 1935.
Here's a list of 12 must-see documentaries about environmental disasters, including Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's 'The Story of Yanagawa’s Canals': buff.ly/2IiaoAZ
Peter Watkins, who won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for 'The War Game,' was born on this date in 1935.
We also recommend his film 'Edvard Munch,' "one of the greatest, most singular works of cinematic nonfiction ever made." Read more here: buff.ly/2Jx1UG2
On this date in 2015, Vitaly Mansky's 'Under the Sun' premiered at the DOK Leipzig film festival.
Watch it now on OVID, Kanopy, or Tubi, and see how high it ranked on our list of the best documentaries of 2016: buff.ly/3ZtJugF
