Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21:
ESCAPE FROM KABUL
Director:
Jamie Roberts
World Premiere:
HBO broadcast (September 2022)
About:
An immersive look at 18 monumental days in August 2021, from the US withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghan citizens from Kabul airport after the Taliban seized the city.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Peacock tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21:
SHADOWLAND
Director:
Alex Braverman, Stephen Bailey, Lindsay Eve Van Dyke
World Premiere:
Peacock (September 2022)
About:
A docuseries inspired by reporting in THE ATLANTIC in which Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across America to embed with subjects who have rejected mainstream narratives, revealing how conspiracy theories have moved from the margins to the mainstream.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, September 20:
THREE MINUTES — A LENGTHENING
Director:
Bianca Stigter
World Premiere:
Venice 2021
Select Festivals:
Sundance, Toronto, IDFA, DOC NYC, Philadelphia, Göteborg, Thessaloniki Doc, Provincetown, Sydney, Cleveland, Docs Against Gravity
About:
A home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland – the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust – is examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20:
THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN
Director:
Sara Dosa
World Premiere:
San Francisco 2019
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Hot Docs, New Horizons, Reykjavík, Melbourne, Camden, RIDM, Leeds, Palm Springs, Available Light, Big Sky Doc, Seattle, Ashland, Thessaloniki Doc
About:
An eccentric Icelandic environmentalist is on a mission to protect the natural habitat of elves from development.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20:
BOVINES
Director:
Emmanuel Gras
World Premiere:
ACID Cannes 2011
Select Festivals:
Docaviv, Hamburg
About:
An entrancing observational study of cows’ lives.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, September 20:
THE AUTOMAT
Director:
Lisa Hurwitz
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
Philadelphia, Austin, Hamptons Doc, Miami Jewish
About:
The history of the titular vending machine, weaving together interviews with engineers, collectors, admirers, former employees, and an eclectic cast of its utmost enthusiasts.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS beginning this Sunday, September 18:
THE US AND THE HOLOCAUST
Director:
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022 (episode 1)
About:
A three-part examination of America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century, when public indifference, bureaucratic red tape, and restrictive quota laws stood in the way of supporting those who sought to escape the Holocaust.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 16:
STILL WORKING 9 TO 5
Director:
Camille Hardman, Gary Lane
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Nantucket, Nashville, Tallgrass
About:
An exploration of why workplace inequality is no laughing matter in the 40 years since the seminal comedy, 9 TO 5, was released in 1980.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix today, Friday, September 16:
SKANDAL! BRINGING DOWN WIRECARD
Director:
James Erskine
World Premiere:
Netflix (September 2022)
About:
Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 16:
FOUR WINTERS
Director:
Julia Mintz
World Premiere:
New York Jewish Film Festival 2020
Select Festivals:
Jewish fests in Toronto, Washington DC, Palm Beach
About:
The story of Jewish partisans who fought against Nazis in Eastern Europe.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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