Gica Enache has been living on a small island in a nature preserve outside the city of Bucharest for 18 years. During that time, he has acquired a wife and nine children, and they continue to live in a homemade shack. The oldest boy Vali goes out and catches fish, some of which they eat, and some […]
This is a history of Martin Luther King’s courageous fight for civil rights in this country from 1955 to 1968. From the beginning of his activism, he was a suspect for treason in J. Edgar Hoover’s mind. The head of the FBI grew up in the south, and maintained an attitude toward Blacks signifying that they are by
For a long time, Jamal Khashoggi was a highly respected journalist in Saudi Arabia known as “the voice of Saudi media”, one who was very close to the monarchy and considered a spokesman for it. But while he was a part of that system, he was also a reformist who would eventually be advocating for the
Mayor. A noble politician—one seldom seen perhaps. But here we have the mayor of Ramallah, Musa Hadid, trying to steer his Palestinian city through what Palestinians would say is illegal Israeli settlements and incursions into their territory, particularly recently, under Netanyahu. The Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Jerusalum have been occupied by Israel since 1967. Jerusalem is a
A documentary by Alex Gibney features a psychiatrist who has tried for years to convince the legal profession that the death penalty should not be used on those who have serious psychopathology because those people are missing the controls that keep the rest of us from doing heinous acts. Her basic question has been, “What keeps
This helpful, informative documentary is hosted by an attractive, charming Ph.D. candidate at MIT, Joy Buolamwini. She works in the MIT Media Lab with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and after she began realizing the potential harm in its intrinsic bias, she founded the Algorithmic Justice League. She is joined by numerous other researchers and
For a comprehensive look at city government, Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall would be almost all you would need to see. Not that every city is the same, but to see the wide breadth of a big city mayor’s reach and responsibilities, it’s educational. At least it was for me; although I’ve lived in a big city for years, always
In this poetic documentary, quintessential documentarian Werner Herzog retraces the steps of a nomadic traveler, Bruce Chatwin, whose endless quest for every kind of strangeness in the world he could find took him to all ends of the earth. Chatwin was a British travel writer, novelist, and journalist who, by way of the short-list for
The film written by Niall Johnson and directed by Geoffrey Sax is interesting, but a disappointment in that it highlights three publicly visible figures of the alt-right in America without defining exactly what the alt-right is supposed to mean. The three figures are all highly individualistic—even critical of one another—and about the only thing that unites
Most of us have probably never heard of Pete Souza, but I predict he will be known by millions more after his recent documentary, The Way I See It, is released and witnessed. Pete was always in the background during his years of being the chief White House photographer during President Reagan’s and President Obama’s terms of