Documentaries

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

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 6:48 PM UTC 11
Life 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

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 3:30 PM UTC
Life 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

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 9:59 PM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks: Movies, Sports

“The Waiting Room”: Welcome to Romneycare 2.0

A saga of desperation, tragedy and unexpected heroism, this riveting documentary spends 24 hours in a public E.R.

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012 10:34 PM UTC
Life Health Care, healthcare

How AIDS activism changed America

"How to Survive a Plague" tells the tragic and amazing tale of how a handful of '80s activists won a huge victory

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Sep 22, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 17
Life Our Picks: Movies, Our Picks

Pick of the week: Baseball’s secret Zen fraternity

Pick of the week: "Knuckleball!" explores baseball's weirdest pitch, and R.A. Dickey's unlikely quest for glory

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 14, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks, Our Picks: Movies

“Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved?

The directors of the gorgeous, haunting "Detropia" on why the hipster invasion can't rescue the Motor City

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 7, 2012 5:45 PM UTC
Life Our Picks, Our Picks: Movies

Interview: Keanu Reeves on “the end of film”

In an exclusive interview, the "Matrix" star talks about his fascinating documentary on the digital revolution

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Sep 1, 2012 7:01 PM UTC 17
Entertainment Interviews, Movies, Our Picks

“2016″: Dinesh D’Souza’s demented anti-Obama crusade

In the surprise documentary hit, he spins a suspiciously personal conspiracy theory. So let's put him on the couch

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Aug 30, 2012 8:55 PM UTC 87
Entertainment Politics, U.S. Politics

“The Ambassador”: A Borat-style quest for blood diamonds

How Danish provocateur Mads Brügger bought a diplomatic passport and exposed the world's sleaziest trade

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012 8:03 PM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks, Documentaries, Movies

Right-wing blockbusters rule

First, "October Baby." Now, "2016: Obama's America." How conservative films are taking over the box office

Michael Barthel Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012 3:26 PM UTC 44
Politics 2016: Obama's America

Pick of the week: A dazzling world tour of birth and death

Pick of the week: "Samsara" offers a spectacular non-narrative global voyage in the "Koyaanisqatsi" mode

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Aug 24, 2012 1:00 AM UTC
Life Our Picks, Our Picks: Movies

China’s not-so-secret plan for world domination

Economist Peter Navarro’s provocative documentary “Death by China” may be frightened of the wrong villain

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 64
Entertainment China, Death by China

Donald Trump destroys Scotland

Greed and arrogance win when the mogul decides to build a golf course in an environmentally pristine location VIDEO

Mary Elizabeth Williams Friday, Aug 3, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 18
Entertainment Donald Trump

Will the world’s taste for sushi kill the oceans?

As the taste for raw fish spreads to India, China and Eastern Europe, the "sustainable sushi" movement emerges

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012 8:45 PM UTC
Life Environmentalism, Documentaries

Pick of the week: Ai Weiwei gives us the finger

Pick of the week: A must-see documentary explores the life of China's -- and the world's -- leading artistic rebel

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Jul 27, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Life Ai Weiwei, China, Documentaries

“Planet of Snail”: An unforgettable love story

She's tiny and he's both deaf and blind -- and the story of their marriage is the movie romance of the year

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Jul 26, 2012 12:01 AM UTC
Life Documentaries, Movies, Our Picks

He fooled a missing teenager’s family — or did he?

A buzzy documentary explores the troubling, twisty tale of an adult who pretended to be a missing Texas teenager

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, Jul 17, 2012 9:15 PM UTC
Life Documentaries, Crime, Movies

Inside the secret world of Dominican baseball

A gripping new movie explores the plantation-style system that trains budding Dominican baseball stars

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, Jul 10, 2012 10:15 PM UTC
Life Baseball, Documentaries, Sports

Pick of the week: The beauty queen and the time-share tycoon

Pick of the week: A hilarious and tragic recession yarn, "The Queen of Versailles" is too amazing for fiction

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Jul 6, 2012 12:10 AM UTC 57
Life Our Picks, Movies, Documentaries

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