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Who killed five American nuns in 1992, and why has no one been held responsible? FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate a mystery from the midst of Liberia’s bloody civil war, in which hundreds of thousands of Liberians died. The five sisters…
By Gregory Crofton Director Liz Garbus (There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane, Bobby Fischer Against the World) knows how to make an entertaining documentary, especially when subject matter gets dark and pushes into the world of mental illness. …
By Gregory Crofton Benjamin Statler’s SOAKED IN BLEACH establishes that the Seattle police conducted virtually no investigation into the death of rock star Kurt Cobain. They ruled his death a suicide on they same day they found him dead, gripping…
By Gregory Crofton The idea came to him while he listened to a “Robert Altman: The Oral Biography” (2009) in his car. Make a documentary about this hugely influential American filmmaker, a man who mocked Hollywood with THE PLAYER and…
THOUGHT CRIMES: THE CASE OF THE CANNIBAL COP is the HBO documentary that explores Gilberto Valle, the NYPD officer that fantasized about killing and eating his wife and her friends on darkfetish.net, and became a tabloid scandal of the justice…
By Gregory Crofton Robert Drew worked with Time Life in the early 1960s to invent a documentary form known as direct cinema or cinéma vérité. Ten largely unseen films from Drew Associates are now available to stream from the SundanceNow…
