Friday, Feb. 9, 2024

Ed Dwight grew up in segregated 1930s Kansas on a farm on the edge of town. An airfield was within walking distance, and, as a boy, he'd often go to marvel at the planes and gawk at the pilots. Most were flying back from hunting trips and their cabins were messy with blood and empty beers cans...

Thursday, May. 4, 2023

Liev Schreiber was visiting conflict-ravaged Ukraine when he got a script about real-life events some 80 years ago that felt strangely timely.

It was a story set during the 1942 occupation of the Netherlands by the Nazis and the way some Dutch risked their lives to save Jews from the...

Thursday, Sep. 22, 2022

There's a new nature documentary series that promises to show viewers incredible animal behavior in vibrant clarity. Heard that all before? Well, this one is on steroids.

"Super/Natural," a six-part series from National Geographic now streaming on Disney+, has tapped "Avatar" creator...

Friday, Nov. 5, 2021

Liz Garbus--a prolific documentarian with an acclaimed body of work which includes the Oscar-nominated features The Farm: Angola, USA and What Happened Miss Simone?--found a kindred filmmaking spirit in Jacques Cousteau, the late, great explorer/adventurer known for shedding...

Friday, Oct. 8, 2021

From the summit in their 2019 Oscar-winning Free Solo to the depths of a flooded subterranean cave in The Rescue--which opens theatrically today (10/8)--documentarians E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have navigated the gamut in filmmaking terrain. But in covering what appears...

Saturday, Sep. 11, 2021

John Hoffman and Janet Tobias' "Fauci" is the first big-screen documentary of the nation's top infectious disease expert and ubiquitous face of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's an intimate portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci, a longtime public servant whose notoriety has risen dramatically — and with that...

Thursday, Jun. 3, 2021

Ron Howard’s directorial range extends from acclaimed dramas such as A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon to hit comedies including Parenthood, Splash and Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. He earned Best Director and Best Picture Oscars in 2002...

Tuesday, Apr. 20, 2021

An eclectic group of people — including LeBron James, James Corden, Jennifer Garner and Sir David Attenborough — have nabbed nominations for this year’s Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators.

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the...

Monday, Mar. 1, 2021

The Tony Awards could bring Cynthia Erivo another Emmy. 

Days after the British performer belted Aretha Franklin's "Ain't No Way" during a red carpet interview at the 2019 Tonys — explaining that it's her guilty pleasure song — she got a call from the producers of the National Geographic...

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020

Taking history into account as it was being made is what happened between the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, which ran from January 23-February 2, and the broadcast premiere of City So Real last week on National Geographic (and shortly thereafter streaming on Hulu). 

From twice...

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