AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US.
Westdoc on ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’
Christopher Reeve played the Man of Steel in four films, but his real superpowers didn’t emerge until after his tragic accident when he injured his spinal cord after falling off a horse. Filmmakers Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, who made…
Attorney Fights Nursing Homes that Put Profit Over Care
By Gregory Crofton Profit shouldn’t be priority when caring for older people, but that’s a reality and it’s producing “systemic negligence” throughout the nursing home industry. Running a long-term care facility, or nursing home, as a for-profit corporate-owned business can…
‘ZEF: The Story of Die Antwoord’ is DEF
By Gregory Crofton Jon Day, best known for his music video work, spent five years making a documentary on Die Antwoord, the viciously good South African cheetahs of art rap. Roger Ballen, a photographer whose had a massive influence rap…
Murder Remembered
This feature-length docudrama brings us back to 1950 in a smalltown Ontario bank, the scene of an armed hold-up by Herbert McAuliffe. By nightfall, two men are dead. The robber flees, and for three days the community of Norfolk County…
Still Photos Examine Breakdown of Ukrainian Life in ‘SIGNS OF WAR’
By Gregory Crofton Pierre Crom is a French photographer who seems to like being in control of things. He sips his coffee carefully and speaks deliberately when interviewed about his work. But war photography, a field he chose once he…