The documentary begins a crowdfunding campaign on the tragedy’s anniversary.We’ve seen enough documentaries about 9/11 to understand the magnitude of the horrible events that unfolded that day. We’ve …
We love city symphony films here at Nonfics. Daniel offered a primer on the genre a while back, and I included two of them on my list of the best documentaries of all time (and another on the list of …
Prisoners and performance have gone together for centuries (probably millennia), and documentaries about the pairing continue to be made, none of them yet short of fascinating. There’s the title show …
Jeanie Finlay is becoming the queen of music documentaries. She hasn’t always worked within the genre, but her real breakout in the U.S. came with 2011’s Sound It Out, which showcased a holdout in the…
In 2006, a gunman named Charles Carl Roberts IV entered an Amish school house in Pennsylvania, took the students hostage and then shot ten young girls, five of whom died, before killing himself. There…
It’s really not uncommon for a documentary to be considered a “found footage” film. That’s pretty much how we could describe half of all the nonfiction works since people (or let’s just say Esfir Shub…