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From All Angles: Megumi Sasaki on 'A Whale of a Tale'

The Cove enraged many an animal activist in 2009, but Megumi Sasaki offers an unbiased look at the controversy of whaling and dolphin hunting in the Japanese town of Taiji.

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War, Racism, and Other Social Spasms in the Newly-Restored 'Strange Victory'

This important post-war film documents its convulsive recent past, ties it into a contemporary scene that we often forget was almost as convulsive and finally, unwittingly, links itself to still roiling convulsions of the film's distant future.

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Joni Mitchell at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970

Murray Lerner's documentary of this historic event shows Joni Mitchell braving a restless and angry audience at Britain's answer to Woodstock.

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'Betty Davis' Documentary 'Betty: They Say I'm Different' Tries a Different Approach

In this interview with documentary maker Phil Cox and producer Giovanna Stoppani, we learn how they made a film about an artist in absolute solitude, funk and soul singer Betty Davis.

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Your Life, Their Hands: Interview with Activist Documentarians Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering on 'The Bleeding Edge'

The makers of The Bleeding Edge on activist filmmaking, the dangers of medical deregulation, and Netflix as a platform for progressive filmmakers.

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The Limits of Hospitality in Fred Rogers Documentary, 'Won’t You Be My Neighbor?'

Our work on this Earth, Rogers insists, is Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). So why does Morgan Neville shut down the possibility of queerness in his documentary?

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On Political Corruption and 'Dark Money': Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Kimberly Reed

The people of Montana worked together to fight against the monetary and political damage caused by Citizen United. Reed's film documents that fight, and she talks with PopMatters about what that took, and what we, as citizens throughout America, must do next.

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Privilege vs Detriment: 'Copyright Criminals' Has a Good Defense

Why would the generation that covered Bob Dylan over and over get so bent out of shape of having seconds of audio copied and pasted in a new way in a rap song?

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Born to Die: Interview with Filmmaker Christopher Quinn and Farmer Frank Reese on 'Eating Animals'

Frank Reese is one of the country's last truly independent farmers, and filmmaker Christopher Quinn tells his story and explores the devastating effects of factory farms on the planet in Eating Animals.

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Chrissie Hynde Doesn't Need Answers, So It's Difficult to Ask Her Questions

Why we leave Chrissie Hynde alone.

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The Cyclic Nature of Struggle: Interview with 'Afghan Cycles' Director Sarah Menzies

For Afghan women, moving forward in a country that is moving backward is extraordinarily difficult. Sarah Menzies documents their pursuit of freedom and independence from the seats of their bicycles.

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'Half the Picture': A Consciousness Raising Discussion About Women in Film

Amy Adrion talks about her directorial debut, Half the Picture, society's fear of empowering women in film, and how that must be overcome.

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Chuck D on the Early Days of Sampling

In those early, free-wheeling days of hip-hop, the artists were waaaay ahead of the lawyers.

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"Break Your Own Dreams": Ebersole & Hughes on 'Mansfield 66/67'

P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes delight in the slippery nature of truth in their documentary filmmaking. Like Jayne Mansfield herself, the moment you think you can pin them down, they've already danced away to another possibility.

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In Defense of Errol Morris's 'Standard Operating Procedure'

Morris knows how our own projections have been weaponized against both those in the Abu Ghraib photos and ourselves as the public consuming the photos, obfuscating the standard operating procedure of the title.

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Tribeca 2018: 'Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story' and 'Call Her Ganda'

These two entries consider the hate crime murders of Trayvon Martin and Jennifer Laude, reinterpret their deaths within historic frameworks, and explore why their stories fade without meaningful changes in US civil rights laws.

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