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In March 2002, untold millions of Chinese viewers were watching state-controlled television when the program was suddenly interrupted, replaced by a video defending the Falun Gong spiritual movement from attack by the Chinese government. This remarkable "hijacking" of primetime TV, carried out by a…

More than 91,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2020, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a federal agency. Those staggering numbers loom over the documentary Our American Family, an intimate look at a Philadelphia family with a daughter, Nicole, in grave danger of…

In a segment of his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver directed his attention to an often-overlooked segment of the American housing market: mobile home communities. "The homes of some of the poorest people in America are getting snapped up by some of the richest people in America," he said, before…

On the evening of February 20, 2018, bride-to-be Martina Kušnírová was looking online at wedding dresses while at the home she shared with her fiancé, journalist Ján Kuciak. They would not survive the night. The documentary, directed by Matt Sarnecki, investigates the shocking murder of the young…

By rights, the rock band Fanny should be as well known and respected as the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin or other groups of that rarified level. They had the musical chops and the dynamic vocal ability to earn their place in the pantheon of rock, but in the late 1960s and 1970s when…

The war in Ukraine has killed many thousands of people and upended the lives of millions of survivors. Inevitably, children are the most grievously affected, their sense of physical safety and emotional security shattered, leaving scars that may never heal. Even before Russia's full-scale invasion of…

In one of his most famous songs, Stephen Sondheim wrote about the challenge of creating art: "Having just a vision's no solution/Everything depends on execution/The art of making art, is putting it together." But what if, as an aspiring talent, you've got the vision, the execution, you put it…

News clips of the war in Ukraine only go so far in depicting the impact of Russia's brutal invasion, which has killed more than 6,000 civilians and injured almost 10,000 more, according to the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. To experience the reality of the war on a more…

The impulse to make art was so strong in Jesse Krimes that even behind the bars of a federal prison he found a way to create stunning works, often using prison bedsheets as his canvas. "When you go into prison you quickly come to realize that everything that exists in your life can be taken…

It's been said that Katia and Maurice Krafft, the couple at the molten center of the award-winning documentary Fire of Love, loved two things — each other and volcanoes. The French scientists became famous decades ago for their study of volcanic activity around the world, an inherently dangerous…

New York City has recorded more than 1.1 million cases of Covid since the pandemic began almost two years ago. The disease has claimed almost 35,000 lives in the city alone. But statistics only go so far in telling the story. The documentary The First Wave, directed by Matthew Heineman, shows what it was really like…

Arthur Ashe achieved greatness on the tennis court, becoming the first African-American major champion in his sport. But what he accomplished off the court was even greater—advancing civil and human rights, attacking apartheid in South Africa, and destigmatizing HIV-AIDS. His life, tennis career and activism come into…