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A dazzling documentary about pop music in China's Muslim-majority province
Life can get complicated in Xinjiang, the far-Western Chinese province perhaps best known as the home of ethnic Uighurs, who are majority Muslim. As in neighboring Tibet, Beijing restricts traditional religious practice there and keeps the province largely shut off from the outside world. Stories of...
washingtonpost.com (9 days ago)
Plot to kill Colombian journalists uncovered
Authorities in Colombia have uncovered a plot to kill a freelance correspondent and a magazine columnist just two weeks after another high-profile investigative reporter narrowly escaped a mafia-style hit, while eight other journalists were threatened with death if they continued with their investigations. Security...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
Film looks at democracy's messes
A documentary attempts to shine a light on unreliable voting systems in the United States.
politico.com (9 days ago)
Six Ways The Office Mattered
If any TV show is lucky enough, it will last to the point when it will seem tired, repetitive, business as usual. The Office, which ends its last season after nine years tonight, may arguably have reached that point; however well it ends, it will have been punching the clock for a long time. But it’s worth...
time.com (9 days ago)
Downfall: opening the book on the final days of Adolf Hitler
Downfall (2004)Director: Oliver HirschbiegelEntertainment grade: A–History grade: A– On 20 April 1945, as the second world war drew to its conclusion, Soviet forces began to shell the centre of Berlin. The film is bookended by documentary footage of the splendidly named Traudl Humps, Adolf Hitler's private secretary...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
New film documents rebirth of Old West End
In a new documentary about the rebirth of The Old West End, Brad King talks about what it was like to move into a neighborhood that some people warned him was a venue for drugs, prostitution and violence.
thestarpress.com (9 days ago)
Documentary film explores Northern Pass Project
PORTSMOUTH - Adventure photographer and filmmaker Jerry Monkman is nearing completion of fund raising for his new film, "The Power of Place."
seacoastonline.com (9 days ago)
TV highlights 16/05/2013
This two-test series is effectively a warm-up for what will be the main cricketing event for England in the Summer: the Ashes series in July. The most significant story is the knee injury of England's Kevin Pietersen, now back in favour with selectors after a period in the wilderness. This first test at Lord's will...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
Dominic West and Thom Yorke in new documentary about tax-avoidance
Dominic West, Thom Yorke and Robert Del Naja take part in The UK Gold, a documentary about tax-avoidance.
telegraph.co.uk (9 days ago)
Bankers – TV review
Finance doesn't make great television. That, I think, we can establish as a rule. It's too complicated, too rich with its own harsh jargon: a deep abyss of indices and acronyms barely understood by the bankers spouting them. If we relied on documentaries alone, we wide-eyed telly-fed naifs wouldn't stand much of a...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
''The Doctor'' Premieres June 10
Be sure to check out the latest documentary on NBA TV, ''The Doctor'' honors Julius Irving on June 10.
nba.com (9 days ago)
'Flying doesn't scare me:' Sole survivor, then aged 4, of 1987 crash that killed 154 - including...
At only 4 years old, Cecelia Crocker was the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash that killed 154 people aboard and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
dailymail.co.uk (9 days ago)
Review: Clever 'Stories We Tell' explores memory
Movie review: The clever documentary 'Stories We Tell' explores the fleeting nature of memory
msn.com (9 days ago)
Review: Clever 'Stories We Tell' explores memory
"Stories We Tell" is a documentary about Sarah Polley's family: her father and mother, sister and brother and the sister and brother she has from her mother's first marriage. It's about moments they've shared that are seemingly prosaic and universally relatable, depicted through the grainy, faded nostalgia of Super...
yahoo.com (9 days ago)
The holy grail of Haggard lore?
Joe Saunders thought he was finished with production on his ambitious, years-in-the-making Bakersfield Sound documentary. But the documentary, it appears, was not finished with him. For tucked away and long forgotten under a pile of memorabilia in the crowded garage of his pack-rat grandfather -- seminal Bakersfield...
bakersfieldcalifornian.com (9 days ago)
VIDEO: Ginger Baker attacks film-maker
Beware of Mr Baker is a new documentary focusing on the legendary British drummer Ginger Baker.
bbci.co.uk (9 days ago)
Murder victim's daughter's moving story: I don't like photos of Daddy because he killed Mummy
The workers who look after such children are the focus of a documentary that looks at what happens to the forgotten families
mirror.co.uk (9 days ago)
Hatch: A new spotlight shines on legendary comic Richard Pryor
More than seven years after his death, the entertainment world still can’t get enough of Richard Pryor. Expect to hear a lot about the Peoria-born comedian in the near future, with a Showtime documentary airing this month, a box set of his stand-up comedy hitting the market and a biopic in the early stages of...
pjstar.com (9 days ago)
Where are they now? Five female faces who disappeared from our screens
Just 18% of on-air presenters in their over 50s are women, new figures have revealed. So while David Dimbleby, 74, chairs Question Time, Jeremy Paxman, 63, fronts Newsnight and John Humphrys, 69, presents the Today programme, what has happened to their female counterparts of a similar age? Here's where five famous...
guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)
WATCH: Unique Doc Explores Guatemala's World Of Gangs
Alma was 15 when she joined one of Guatemala's notorious gangs. For five years, the young girl was part of a group that was responsible for murders, extortion and brutal gang rapes."From the start I knew the rules," she says. "Kills, steal, extort." Alma told her story in this remarkable interactive documentary by...
huffingtonpost.com (9 days ago)
Ed Coffin: Alex Jamieson Is Not the Victim, the Animals Are
This morning, I was featured on CBC's The Current to challenge Alex Jamieson on her decision to no longer be vegan. As a credentialed registered dietitian (RD) and license dietitian-nutritionist (LDN) that relies on science to make evidence-based recommendations, listening to her talk was like nails on a chalkboard....
huffingtonpost.com (9 days ago)
Survivor of 1987 Mich. plane crash breaks silence
DETROIT - Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life - one that she doesn't otherwise remember. At only 4 years old, Crocker was the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash that killed 154 people aboard and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In...
bostonherald.com (10 days ago)
Abby Wambach discusses Alex Morgan, head injuries
Closing in on Hamm's record, Wambach is in the spotlight for ESPNU documentary.
usatoday.com (10 days ago)
George Heymont: City Mouse, Country Mouse
"I'd rather gnaw a bean than be gnawed by continual fear." That quote is attributed to Odo of Cheriton, a 13th century preacher who explained the moral of Aesop's popular fable, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Even though Aesop is believed to have been a Greek slave who lived between 620 and 560 BCE, his...
huffingtonpost.com (10 days ago)
Documentary depicts 'lost' François Hollande as he faces EU pressure
François Hollande is depicted as an increasingly gloomy figure who is losing control over his ministers and who is henpecked by Valerie Trierweiler, his partner, in a new fly-on-the-wall documentary showing life inside the Elysee Palace.
telegraph.co.uk (10 days ago)
Cheat Sheet: Catching Up With the Last Two Years of The Office
When, two years ago, Steve Carell left The Office-a show that had already been on for seven years and had already wrapped up its main romantic plot-many viewers followed. It was hard to escape the feeling that the show had lost its momentum. But with the sitcom entering the home stretch-its final episode airs on May...
time.com (10 days ago)
Beware Mr Baker
The video above doesn't really capture the full horror of my thankfully brief time with Ginger Baker. It was an onstage Q&A at the Curzon Soho cinema in London, after a screening of the excellent documentary Beware of Mr Baker, and the best that can be said is that – having already seen the film – I knew what to...
guardian.co.uk (10 days ago)
Survivor of 1987 Mich. plane crash breaks silence
Lone survivor of 1987 Michigan airplane crash that killed 156 breaks silence in documentary
msn.com (10 days ago)
Beware of Mr Baker
Interview: Michael Hann talks to Ginger Baker, the irascible and brilliant drummer, about his music, his life, and the new documentary made about himMichael Hann
guardian.co.uk (10 days ago)
Top 10 most-watched TV series finales
On Thursday night, The Office will wrap up its nine-season run, and viewers will be expecting a hilarious, yet emotional ending to the beloved mockumentary. The official synopsis reads,“Months after the airing of the documentary, the workers...
examiner.com (10 days ago)
