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‘BOOKER’S PLACE: A MISSISSIPPI STORY’: Director Reports a ‘Chilly Silence’ About Film From Some Greenwood Residents

By Gregory Crofton In 1965, Frank De Felitta traveled to Greenwood, Miss., to shoot the NBC documentary “MISSISSIPPI: A SELF PORTRAIT.” The murder of three civil rights workers in 1964 just outside Philadelphia, Miss., as well as other race-related crimes…

Director of ‘CUTIE AND THE BOXER’ Talks Filmmaking on Bring Your Own Doc

“CUTIE AND THE BOXER,” a beautiful documentary about Brooklyn artists Ushio and Noriko Shinohara that have lived together in tumult, expression and flowering creativity for decades, is discussed during an interview with the film’s director Zachary Heinzerling. (Source: B.Y.O.D.).

Taliban: Behind the Masks

Though they would eventually kidnap him, the Taliban granted journalist Paul Refsdal unprecedented access. This exclusive documentary shows us a side of the Taliban we have never seen before.

‘JIMI HENDRIX – HEAR MY TRAIN A COMIN”: Heart-Warming Doc About Guitar Legend Glosses Over Death

By Gregory Crofton Watched the PBS American Masters documentary about Jimi Hendrix, a man so consumed with playing guitar he was hardly ever without one. “Jimi used to get up in the morning and put a guitar on before he…

The Assassination of President Kennedy

An Anthony Summers’ 1978 documentary on the assassination of President Kennedy is one of the best films on the subject, even if you may not agree with the direction it takes towards the end.

Clip from ‘Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll’

“Chuck Berry came to me to ask about changing the name from the Johnnie Johnson Trio to Chuck Berry Trio which was perfectly OK with me because Chuck was more of a go-getter and seemed to know more about the…

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