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The Peabody Awards today announced the Documentary and Education program honorees, the final nine winners named as part of its inaugural Peabody 30. They include documentaries Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (HBO), Listen To Me Marlon (Showtime), What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix) and ISIS In Afgha…

Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence was named Best Feature tonight at the 2015 IDA Documentary Awards. A followup to Oppenheimer’s Act Of Killing, the new movie explores a man’s journey to locate and confront the men who killed his brother during anti-communist purges in Indonesia. The Look of Silence won the…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is out with its finalists for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, and it includes films about a singers, actors, heroes and a number of hot-button issues. Among the pics on the shortlist are the Amy Winehouse docu Amy; What Happened, Miss Simone?, about singer Nina…

A touching examination of Amy Winehouse and the creator of a hard-bitten look at drug violence in Mexico are among the nominees and honorees at the 2015 International Documentary Association Awards, hosted this year by comedian Tig Nataro and set to take place December 5 in the Paramount Theatre at Paramount…

Earlier today at the Television Critics Association  Summer Press Tour, Showtime announced that its inside-the-CIA documentary The Spymasters will bow in November. Now it has released its full docu slate for the rest of 2015 and into the spring. Projects from Antoine Fuqua, Amy Berg and Stevan Riley, among others…

The End Of The Tour, A24’s Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel pic about writer David Foster Wallace and a reporter profiling him, got off to a solid beginning with a launch in 4 New York and L.A. theaters, one of a handful of new specialty movies this weekend. A couple of high profile Sundance docs also performed well in…

A trio of documentaries that likely will factor in awards season bow this weekend, while a new feature starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel could give some lift into the specialty box office. Showtime Documentary Film is giving its Sundance docu Listen To Me Marlon, which tells Oscar-winning screen legend Marlon…

Sundance docs Listen To Me Marlon and Prophet’s Prey will roll out nationally in theaters ahead of their premieres on Showtime under the Showtime Documentary Films banner, the pay cabler said today. Stevan Riley-directed Listen To Me Marlon, a revealing look at Marlon Brando’s extensive personal audio archive, will…

EXCLUSIVE: Documentary filmmaker Stevan Riley (Blue Blood, Fire In Babylon) got the chance of a lifetime when he was granted access to more than 200 hours of audio tapes Marlon Brando made during the course of his life, a personal archive of never-before-heard musings, acting studies, self-hypnosis and insights the…