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Few filmmakers are as prolific as Frederick Wiseman. With 47 documentaries to his credit, the director has spent his life exploring institutions that…
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The planet’s youngest generations will bear the weight of climate change. So some young people are fighting back — by suing the United States…
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Humbugs may sneer, but filmmaker Mitchell Kezin is obsessed with Christmas music, and he isn’t alone.In his documentary Jingle Bell Rocks!, Kezin hit the…
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MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini was working with facial recognition software when she encountered a problem: The robot she was programming could not detect…
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It’s the last night of a Las Vegas dive bar. The regulars gather to say goodbye to each other and to the old place. The filmmakers turn on their cameras…
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In a world fully mapped and explored, a world where rational, scientific answers can be made for basically everything, some people are left…
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It was a 36-year-long social experiment that led to horrible human rights violations, the effects of which will play out in China for years to…
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In the documentary I Am Human, filmmakers Taryn Southern and Elena Gaby follow three subjects whose brains are linked to machines, making them the world's…
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When you think about Darrell Hammond, you probably think of the impressions he did on Saturday Night Live, not the childhood abuse he suffered at the…
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James "The Amazing" Randi is a renowned magician and escape artist, but he can't abide charlatans. So he turned his energy to exposing psychics and…
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We continue our Through the Lens documentary series with a portrait of activism and unrest from Cairo's Tahrir Square. The film is called "The Square,"…