“Time” is a great American documentary film produced and directed by Garrett Bradley. It follows Sibil Fox Richardson, fighting for the release of her husband Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence. It is a deeply personal journey with the family, edited from over 100 hours of home-videos Sibil recorded over the 18 years […]
Viele Menschen glauben, ihre Profile und geteilten Information in sozialen Netzwerken seien harmlos und von geringer Relevanz. Erstmal hat es etwas Gutes. Man kann sich mit Freunden austauschen, Neuigkeiten erfahren zu Themen, die man mag und Neues entdecken. “Was sollen die denn mit meinen Daten?” “Ich habe nichts Schlimmes zu verbergen.” Doch dies ist nicht
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Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin created an impressive portrait with the US documentary “Free Solo” (2018). The film follows the free solo climber Alex Honnold on his “El Capitan” project, a huge rock ledge in Yosemite Park [yoh-SEM-i-tee] in California, without protective gear. Due to the enormous heights and the lack of safety in
The moving New York Times film “Father Soldier Son”, directed and produced by Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis, is available on Netflix. The intimate portrait follows the Eisch family, a US soldier and his two sons, over a period of ten years. The life of the family changes completely, when the father returns from an
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The 1994 American documentary film “Hoop Dreams” directed and produced by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert is regarded as one of the best documentaries ever made. During it’s nearly three hours runtime it follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American high school students, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball
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You can now watch Raoul Peck’s 2016 US documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” on Netflix. The film is inspired by the unfinished manuscript “Remember This House,” a collection of notes and letters written by writer and activist James Baldwin in the 1970s that recall the work and life of his close friends and civil
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Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック, Tōkyō Orinpikku) is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa, documenting the 1964 Olympic Summer Games in Japan. Tokyo Olympiad focuses more on the atmosphere of the Games than on journalistic coverage, making it an important cinematic work in contemporary history. Tokyo was supposed to host the Olympics as early
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Prime Video is finally showing Asif Kapadia’s great British documentary “Diego Maradona” from 2019. The film tells the story of the Argentine football star with a focus on his time in Naples from 1984 to 1991. From the rise to the football god to his dramatic fall. In the 1980s, Maradona’s agent Jorge Cyterszpiler had
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Jia Zhangke’s 2010 Chinese documentary “I Wish I Knew” (传奇) is an elegant, poetic portrait of the port city of Shanghai. To mark its 10th anniversary, the film was released in the US for the first time in January 2020. People of different ages tell of their personal experiences in the rapidly changing political conditions
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The American documentary “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” by James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham has been released on Netflix. The film tells the story of a group of young people with disabilities who experience appreciation and community in a summer camp in the early 1970s and then, motivated by their experiences, take to the streets