documentary
-
The Rumpus Interview with Cassie Jaye
Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye landed the Best Documentary Award at Cannes Film Festival for her film, Daddy I Do in 2010 — about the controversial religious ceremony Purity Balls, where girls from six to sixteen pledge their virginity to their…
-
How Documentaries Could Rule The World
I. Non-fiction rules! Starting as far back as 50 years ago, non-fiction set out to crush fiction in the book world.
-
The Rumpus Review of We Live in Public
Sizing up history is a tricky business: You can generally recognize that something is significant long before you can really say why or how. So it is with the Internet and its many pioneers. So it is with Josh Harris.
-
The Machine that Changed the World
Just in case you were looking for a compelling 5-part documentary series to watch for free over the weekend, consider The Machine that Changed the World, a history of computing jointly produced by WGBH Boston and the BBC in 1991.…
-
Outsider Art with a Professional Sheen
America has always had people dying for a taste of the limelight and others willing to delude them for a healthy profit. PBS takes a funny and moving look at one such scheme in Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story…