Peter Watkins, Provocateur With a Movie Camera, Dies at 89

His Oscar-winning 1965 film “The War Game” depicted a post-nuclear-attack England, one of his many fictionalized docudramas ...

‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Tell Me Everything

A quintessentially American movie starring two splendid British actors, “Peter Hujar’s Day” resists categorization. Neither ...

Peter Watkins, filmmaker best known for his searing mock-documentary The War Game, banned by the BBC

Peter Watkins, who has died the day after his 90th birthday, was a radical and visionary filmmaker who won an Oscar for The War Game, his mock-documentary about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on ...

A New Documentary Oscar Campaign Stop Launches in London

Apple TV's "Come See Me In The Good Light," about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, will kick off the inaugural LLDNDOCS ...
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“Peter Hujar’s Day” Gives the Past a New Life

Ira Sachs’s film, starring Ben Whishaw as the renowned photographer and Rebecca Hall as his interviewer, is a personal memorial for the protagonist and his milieu.

‘The American Revolution’ Review: Ken Burns Tackles the War for Independence in Patriotic, Pragmatic and Familiar Form

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

Oscar Documentary Hopefuls Examine America’s Corrupt Prison System, the Israel-Hamas War, the Importance of Investigative Reporting in a Democracy and More

This year’s crop of top documentary contenders includes films about racism, war, America’s corrupt prison system and George Orwell.