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News Articles: documentary

Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao) experiences romance and heartbreak in <em>Caught by the Tides.</em>

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'Caught by the Tides' turns discarded documentary scraps into a remarkable drama

This documentary-drama hybrid is one of the best new movies our critic's seen this year. It draws on archival footage to tell a story of two lovers separating and reuniting over roughly two decades.

May 15, 2025
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  • Justin Chang
Netflix’s new docuseries takes on the dark side of kidinfluencing. Tudum/Netflix

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Georgia’s most famous influencer gets a new Netflix docuseries

Netflix’s latest docuseries, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, is an explosive look into Georgia native and child star Piper Rockelle, who is one of the most infamous online personas of her generation.

April 15, 2025
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  • Sundi Rose and
  • The Telegraph
Cynthia Meachum, above, is a searcher who became close with Forrest Fenn, the man who hid the treasure. <em>Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure </em>is a new Netflix docuseries that<em> </em>chronicles the search.

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He enticed amateur sleuths into the wilderness with buried treasure. It didn't go well

In 2010, a wealthy man announced that he'd hidden a box of gold and jewels somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The Netflix docuseries Gold & Greed chronicles the ill-fated search for Fenn's Treasure.

March 29, 2025
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
From left: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with their Oscar awards for best documentary for the film <em>No Other Land</em> in the press room at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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Israel's culture minister calls a Palestinian-Israeli film's Oscar a 'sad moment'

The Oscar documentary win by the movie No Other Land is garnering very different reactions in Israel and the West Bank.

March 03, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Itay Stern,
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People watch a hologram called "Studio di uomo barbuto" (study of bearded man) during a Leonardo da Vinci multimedia installation in Milan in 2019.

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  • Arts & Life

Artist, scientist, polymath — a new documentary uncovers the real Leonardo da Vinci

We have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person.

November 18, 2024
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Adam Raney,
  • and 1 more
Christopher Columbus landing in America with the Piuzon Brothers bearing flags and crosses, 1492.

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Christopher Columbus may have been a Spanish Jew, according to a new documentary

A recently televised documentary in Spain rekindles competing versions of the famed explorer's origins, but the scientific community is viewing it with caution.

October 16, 2024
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  • Miguel Macias
A scene from the documentary “We Will Speak.”

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‘We Will Speak’: South Arts educates audiences with inspiring Cherokee language documentary

On April 7, Atlanta-based regional arts organization South Arts showcased the 2023 documentary Dadiwonisi (We Will Speak  at the Plaza Theatre. 

April 10, 2024
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  • Holyn Thigpen
Crowds of people jam Marietta Street for Freaknik near the intersection of Peachtree Street in Atlanta on April 19, 1996.

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'Freaknik' documentary tells untold story behind the massively popular Atlanta street party

A new Hulu documentary takes a look at the legendary street party Freaknik held in Atlanta during the 80s and 90s. "Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told" will touch on how the event started as a simple Atlanta Black college cookout during spring break but grew to draw thousands from across the United States.

March 14, 2024
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  • Associated Press
View, in 2014, of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumptive assassin of President John F. Kennedy, found a perch above the plaza on Nov. 22, 1963

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Filmmaker examines the roots of mistrust of government with 'Inside the Warren Commission'

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A new documentary breaks down the legacy of the Warren Commission, which was set up to examine the circumstances of the killing of a president.

November 20, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Biello
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editor-in-Chief Leroy Chapman, Jr. poses with MC Shy D and Ernie Suggs at the premiere of the documentary The South Got Something to Say on Nov. 2, 2023 in Atlanta. Suggs, an AJC enterprise reporter and author, contributed to the film's story and narration along with culture reporter DeAsia Paige..

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Hip-hop documentary ‘The South Got Something to Say’ premieres in Atlanta.

A star-studded teal carpet preceded the film about Atlanta's music history directed by the Horne Brothers and produced by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

November 03, 2023
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
Sarah Cunningham giving out "free mom hugs" as she advocates for the LGBTQ community in the film "Mama Bears."

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Atlanta filmmaker profiles LGBTQ advocates in 'Mama Bears' documentary

A new documentary tells the story of a group of mothers whose children challenged their views on what it means to be gay or trans.

June 20, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
Rasheeda Williams (Koko Da Doll)

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Teen arrested in death of transgender woman from documentary

A 17-year-old is in custody in connection with the shooting death earlier this month of Koko Da Doll, an Atlanta woman who gained notice in a documentary about transgender Black women and the dangers they face.

April 28, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Little Richard during a visit to Macon in 2005.

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  • Arts & Life

‘He was bold, ... he was gender-nonconforming.’ New film examines life of Little Richard

A new documentary film about Little Richard, the Macon-born architect of rock ’n’ roll, is a nuanced exploration of his life and career and the path he forged for generations of entertainers.

February 01, 2023
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  • Joe Kovac
(L-R) Curt Flood, Bill White, Bob Gibson

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  • Sports

Black baseball players struggled long after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier

After Jackie, a new History Channel documentary, tells the stories of three of the Black baseball players who followed Jackie Robinson into the major leagues.

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Phil Harrell
R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago in September 2019.

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  • Television

R. Kelly And Britney TV Docs Tap Into 'Consequence Culture,' Not Cancel Culture

Surviving R. Kelly and Framing Britney Spears are among a growing list of documentary projects challenging audiences to reconsider old controversies with fresh eyes.

August 23, 2021
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  • Eric Deggans
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