Tag: Documentary

Fire of Love is a documentary that features the most amazing footage of volcanoes we’ve ever seen. Katia and Maurice Krafft were volcanologists (scientists who study volcanoes). The two cross paths and become inseparable, both obsessed with studying volcanoes and trying to understand how they work and how to predict when one will erupt. Katia…
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If you haven’t heard of Nan Goldin before, then All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will not be as interesting or as affecting. If you’ve been privileged enough to learn about her or see her photography at an exhibit in person, then this documentary will be of particular interest. It’s no surprise that a good…
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Lucy and Desi is a documentary about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the legendary television couple. Ball and Arnaz’s many successes have been well documented both on screen and in print. The power couple met on the set of a movie. They quickly fell in love, got married, and were promptly separated because of work…
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Stanley Nelson is well known for his prolific documentaries highlighting moments of Black history in the United States. Nelson has covered topics like HBCU’s, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and the Freedom Riders. It seems logical that he would tackle Attica next. If you aren’t familiar with what happened at Attica, here’s a brief summary. In…
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Flee is one of the most effective and moving documentaries I’ve seen in years. Amin is on the verge of getting married to his partner, Kasper. This major life event has triggered an emotional response from him and he wants to share his past for the first time. And what an intense past it is.…
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Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is the directorial debut of Questlove the drummer and frontman for the band the Roots. This documentary tells the story of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which happened only 100 miles away from the more widely known Woodstock festival that same year. The entire…
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Julia is the latest documentary from filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West, the duo who brought you RBG (2018). This time the focus is on Julia Child. The movie begins by covering some of Julia’s childhood growing up in Pasadena, California. She was born in 1912 and was the oldest daughter of two conservative parents.…
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I still remember in 2018, when I heard about Anthony Bourdain’s death. I was with a friend eating lunch. I knew of Bourdain of course, and my friend and I discussed his career and famous television series Parts Unknown. His death was made even more curious and (sickeningly) interesting because it was revealed he had…
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Tina Turner is a LEGEND. A legend, people. So when I saw there was going to be a new documentary about her I was eager to see it! Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin helm this emotional documentary. They begin by splitting the movie (and by extension, Tina’s life) into five acts. The first few acts…
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Director Luke Holland embarks on a journey that I would not have attempted in a million years. In the documentary, Final Account, Holland interviews the last remaining members of Hitler’s Third Reich. These interviews contain a smattering of men and women who each held different positions in the Nazi regime. Some of them were guards…
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