Coming to PBS’s American Experience today, Monday, November 14 and tomorrow, Tuesday, November 15:
TAKEN HOSTAGE
Director:
Robert Stone
World Premiere:
PBS broadcast (November 2022)
About:
Unfolding like a political thriller, the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Disney+ today, Friday, November 11:
FIRE OF LOVE
Director:
Sara Dosa
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, True/False, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, Docaviv, Visions du Reel, Docville, Sydney, Seattle, San Francisco, Cleveland, Ashland, RiverRun, Sun Valley, Provincetown
About:
This story of the doomed love triangle between intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft and the volcanoes they captured in their explosive archival footage.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to HBO Max tomorrow, Saturday, November 12:
SANTA CAMP
Director:
Nick Sweeney
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2022
About:
With Christmas looming, three unconventional new recruits join the jolly white, bearded, ranks of Santa Camp and shake up the image of Kris Kringle.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, November 4:
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
Director:
Jason Kohn
World Premiere:
Berlin 2022
Select Festivals:
IDFA, SXSW, CPH:DOX, Docs Against Gravity, Camden, Bergen, Philadelphia, BAMcinemaFest
About:
This thriller-like investigation into the disruptive infiltration of synthetic diamonds into the jewelry market turns into an inquiry of the universal themes of value, the real, and the symbolic.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Friday, November 11:
THE HUMAN TRIAL
Director:
Lisa Hepner, Guy Mossman
World Premiere:
Theatrical release (June 2022)
About:
An intimate, unprecedented profile of the patients and scientists participating in a groundbreaking clinical trial to seek a cure for diabetes.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Friday, November 11:
IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?
Director:
Elvis Mitchell
World Premiere:
New York Film Festival 2022
Select Festivals:
Montclair, AFI Fest, Indie Memphis
About:
A definitive narrative of the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, November 11:
RETROGRADE
Director:
Matthew Heineman
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Busan, Hamptons, Vancouver, Antenna Doc, Heartland, Bergen, Philadelphia, Montclair, Cork, Denver
About:
The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Friday, November 11:
BEING THUNDER
Director:
Stéphanie Lamorré
World Premiere:
Inside Out 2021
Select Festivals:
Frameline, American Indian, NewFest
About:
Two-Spirit teenager Sherente lives at the intersections—sometimes clashing, sometimes harmonious—of several identities.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, November 11:
MIDWIVES
Director:
Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, IDFA, Cleveland, San Francisco, Human Rights Watch, DMZ Docs, Docaviv, Zurich, Brisbane, Bergen, Cork
About:
Two midwives—one Buddhist, the other Muslim—work side-by-side in a makeshift clinic in Myanmar.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres this Friday, November 11:
IN HER HANDS
Director:
Tamana Ayazi, Marcel Mettelsiefen
World Premiere:
Toronto 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Camden, Hamptons
About:
In the months leading up to the Taliban takeover in 2021, Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor, Zarifa Ghafari, deals with danger, uncertainty, and personal turmoil.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
what (not) to doc 