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Roadside Attractions has taken domestic rights for To The End, the follow-up film from Rachel Lears (Knock Down The House), and set a Dec. 9 theatrical-only release date. The deal was announced by Co-Presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff. The film, which premiered at Sundance, covers three years of both hope and…

Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez routed Republican John Cummings in New York's 14th Congressional District in Northern Queens and parts of the Bronx, taking 68% to the former NYPD officer's 31% to secure a widely anticipated second term in the House. In 2018, the eloquent, social media-savvy, self-proclaimed…

Netflix has made a selection of its documentary programming available for free via its YouTube channel in an effort to help teachers coping with the challenge of COVID-19. In a blog post Friday, the company noted that it has historically allowed teachers to screen documentaries without a license fee. With many…

Filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert understand better than most how much things can change in a decade. In 2009 they released their Oscar-nominated documentary short The Last Truck, about the closing of a GM plant in Ohio. In 2019, they returned with American Factory, a feature documenting what happened to…

Back in early 2017 filmmaker Rachel Lears came up with an idea for a documentary that wound up changing her life. "Rachel was looking for a subject to follow right after the 2016 presidential election," her husband and filmmaking collaborator Robin Blotnick explains. "She read an article about a group called Brand New…

On the Netflix Hollywood compound recently, a capacity crowd gathered in an amphitheater for an event with the crackling energy—and almost the look—of a UFC title bout. The contenders in the ring at Real to Reel: A Netflix Documentary Showcase Presented by Deadline were all heavyweights, not in MMA but nonfiction…

Three dozen women won House seats in the November midterm elections, including a few who made have made national names for themselves. You’ve likely heard of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlain — and a certain ex-bartender from the Bronx who’s among the subjects of Knock Down the House, which now has its first trailer…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline broke news last Wednesday that Netflix had won a heated auction for the Sundance documentary Knock Down the House, but it wasn't immediately clear how much the picture sold for. I can reveal that Netflix paid $10 million for worldwide rights to a film that yesterday received Sundance's coveted Festi…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be a little busy tonight, but she might be celebrating this news ahead of the State of the Union address. Knock Down the House, the documentary that followed her run for Congress last year along will three other first-time female candidates, has won the Festival Favorite Award at…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is about to get on the board in a big way at the Sundance Film Festival, near a deal on one of the buzziest documentaries to play Park City. Netflix is closing on Knock Down the House, the Rachel Lears-directed film that followed the campaigns of four progressive women who ran against incumbents in…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was actually made it to the Sundance Film Festival tonight, at least digitally. Yesterday, Deadline revealed and the newly minted Congresswoman confirmed online that she wouldn't be showing up in Park City in person as previously planned for the premiere of a documentary about her remarkable…

EXCLUSIVE: Knock Down the House will still premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, but the timely documentary won't have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the house after all. With the unprecedented 35-day government shutdown ending on Friday for at least three weeks, the KDTH star and one of the biggest stars in…