Category Documentary

At the end of her autobiography, Michelle Obama embarked on a promotional tour that touched 34 U.S. cities, attending meetings in front of ocean audiences and moderated by leading figures – from Oprah Winfrey to Conan O’Brien – but even to groups of simple readers, students and parishioners...

Now it’s her turn, all eyes are on Jennifer Hudson called to confirm how good, if not extraordinary, she has already shown in Dreamgirls, the film with which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, because now she is having to play the role of Aretha Franklin in the biopic Respect...

In 1971, the American photographer Eugene Smith, famous for his services on World War II published by Life magazine, learned from translator Aileen of cases of poisoning in the Japanese village of Minamata. Sent by Life director Bob Hayes, Eugene gets in touch with the local fishing community and, with the help of Aileen herself and other activists, documents with her camera malformations and genetic diseases caused by the industrial waste of the chemical giant Chisso...

The film examines the devastating effects of climate change and, as the launch statement explains, criticizes environmental movements, accused of having “lost the battle through a series of disastrous choices, believing that solar panels would have saved us and giving in to the interests of Wall Street. ” Planet of the Humans was slated to hit theaters this year, but Moore and Gibbs decided to publish it immediately, during the coronavirus emergency, hoping that the public “reflects on the role of humans in our fragile ecosystem...

In Hawaii, amidst an exuberant nature, a girl and her mother gather swarms of wild bees to create disease-resistant colonies. The father protests against the construction of a telescope and NASA scientists simulate life on Mars. Stars and beehives, water, light, volcanoes...

The documentary tells the story of a group of firefighters in a wild territory and their constant confrontation with fear, loyalty, love and defeat, during a working season...

During the terrifying first days of the outbreak of AIDS, a war rages between nurses, doctors and personnel in charge of taking care of the infected...

The whole story of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, a famous club that has always supported black music and helped train great international artists...

African Americans and horror: a chronicle. Through interviews, clips, testimonials, we retrace the evolution of the role of “blackness” in genre films, from the racism of the beginning of the century to the revolutionary watershed of “The night of the living dead”, from blaxploitation to Jordan Peele (and beyond)...

The story of Ridley Scott’s Alien origins – rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon and the obscure visions of Dan O’Bannon and H.R. Giger...