“Unclaimed” charts search for forgotten Vietman vet
A film posits that U.S. soldier John Hartley Robertson, declared dead in 1968, is still alive in Vietnam UPDATED
Monday, Apr 29, 2013 4:04 PM UTCEntertainment unclaimed, Vietnam War
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Tribeca Film Festival: The 10 hottest movies
Picking the highlights -- from horror to documentary to romance -- of New York's big spring film showcase SLIDE SHOW
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 9:15 PM UTCEntertainment slideshow, Movies, Film Festivals
Pick of the week: Lost in Stanley Kubrick’s labyrinth
Pick of the week: From the Minotaur to the moon landing, "Room 237" probes the cult theories around "The Shining"
Friday, Mar 29, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 51Entertainment Movies, Our Picks
Pick of the week: Dick Cheney has no regrets
Pick of the week: Battered but defiant, the Darth Vader of politics shows no emotion -- except over firing Rumsfeld
Friday, Mar 15, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 43Entertainment Movies, TV, Documentaries, Politics
Read our salon on fracking
Two experts pulled apart the issue -- and each other’s arguments -- in real time. Read the debate here
Monday, Mar 4, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 29Social Editor's Picks, Environment
“The Jeffrey Dahmer Files”: That nice young man in Apt. 213
A brooding docu-fiction hybrid explores the improbable true story of Milwaukee's normal-seeming serial killer
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 9:55 PM UTCEntertainment Movies, Documentaries, Crime
Pick of the week: Is the golden age of short films upon us?
From three wrenching documentaries to a steampunk fantasy to Maggie Simpson, this year's Oscar shorts pack a punch
Friday, Feb 1, 2013 1:00 AM UTCEntertainment Movies, Our Picks
Is a two-state solution still possible — or is Israel toast?
Israel's secret policemen face the unthinkable in the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Gatekeepers"
Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 27Entertainment Movies, Our Picks
Is Werner Herzog a libertarian?
The eccentric German’s newest documentary is a paean to life beyond taxes, cops and laws – with cute puppies
Friday, Jan 25, 2013 7:15 PM UTC 13Entertainment Movies, Documentaries, Our Picks
Alexandra Pelosi: “If it’s guilt or shame — Jim McGreevey’s actually doing some good in the world”
Nancy Pelosi's Emmy-winning daughter believes in redemption. And she's made a career of documenting it in action
Friday, Jan 18, 2013 9:08 PM UTCEntertainment alexandra pelosi, Nancy Pelosi
Birding: The latest angsty Manhattan craze!
A rich and lovely documentary — starring Jonathan Franzen! — explores the birder subculture of Central Park
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 10:48 PM UTC 12Life
Is documentary-style photography dead?
The rerelease of Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" reminds us what we've lost in the Internet age
Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 1:00 AM UTCEntertainment LA Review of Books, Nan Goldin
Oscars Documentary short list announced
15 films, including "Bully" and "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," made the cut
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 5:51 PM UTCEntertainment Oscars, Awards, Movies
Is feminism worth defending with torture?
How Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Osama-hunting saga faces the thorniest moral dilemmas of the "war on terror"
Saturday, Dec 1, 2012 5:00 PM UTC 79Entertainment Torture, Movies, Politics
“The Central Park Five”: New York’s darkest hour
Ken Burns tackles the dreadful tale of the "Central Park jogger" — and the five young men who didn't rape her
Friday, Nov 30, 2012 10:07 PM UTC 12Life Documentaries, Ken Burns
Pick of the week: The case that unlocked the Catholic scandal
Pick of the week: Alex Gibney's "Mea Maxima Culpa" follows the scandal from one Wisconsin school to the pope's desk
Friday, Nov 16, 2012 12:59 AM UTC 44Life Mea Maxima Culpa
“The Revisionaries”: Texas schoolbook battle — crazier than you thought!
An alarming, hilarious documentary revisits the Tea Party-fueled fight over evolution and Obama in school textbooks
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 110Life Textbooks, Public Education
Bardem: I’ll say “whatever the hell I think is right”
The sexy Spanish superstar and Bond villain gets involved with Africa’s most ignored human-rights crisis
Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 6:48 PM UTC 11Life Sons of the Clouds
“Brooklyn Castle”: An inner-city school where chess legends are made
A corrective to "Won't Back Down," this doc about tween chess champs proves public schools may not be hopeless
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 3:30 PM UTCLife public schools
“The Iran Job”: Love and basketball — in Shiraz?
A college hoops star goes to Shiraz — and stumbles into unexpected intrigue — in a surprising documentary
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 9:59 PM UTCEntertainment Our Picks: Movies, Sports
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