Topic: United States

Jon Blair

Jon Blair (born 1950) is a South African born writer , producer and director of documentary film s, drama and comedy who has lived in England and the United States ever since he was drafted into the South African army in the ...

In the Shadow of the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon is a British documentary film about US manned space expeditions to the moon during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Best Documentary Nominees Documentary - Feature Anders ?stergaard and Lise Lense-M?ller for Burma VJ - VJ stands for video journalists, who shot this shaky and sometime blurred footage with cameras small enough to be concealed in times of threat and danger. ...
The award winning and much honoured Journalist and documentary film maker originally from Sydney who these days predominately bases himself in London once said: Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries ...
Alex Gibney, 2007)Everybody gasped (me included) at the Oscar party I attended when this won Best Documentary over SiCKO and NO END IN SIGHT. At first glance one has to sigh and think "another anti-Bush administration talking heads piece of pop propaganda" ...

Movie reviews: Billy the Kid

Directed by Jennifer Venditti; director of photography, Donald Cumming; edited by Michael Levine; music by Christian Zucconi and Guy Blakeslee; produced by Ms. Venditti and Chiemi Karasawa; released by Elephant Eye Films. Billy The Kid is a Documentary of a 15 year ...
In 2006 the issue was global warming . Director Davis Guggenheim based this documentary on one of Al Gore's power point lectures which although sounding boring proved to be anything but. It also helps to maintain interest as although Al Gore is ...

Movie reviews: Super Size Me

Super Size Me is the award-winning documentary by Morgan Spurlock, a man who woke one morning and decided to spend one month, 30 full days, eating nothing but fast food from McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But what elevates Super Size ...
Crown of the Continent is a half hour documentary I remember seeing on PBS a number of years ago, and I always remembered it. Created by filmmaker John Grabowska, Crown of the Continent explores Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, in Alaska, and includes ...
The other night I watched an astonishing documentary on public television. It covered all the very substantial evidence about the great Chinese fleet (200 vessels, 30,000 men) of 1421 A.D. As the PBS website describes: "At the behest of Chinese emperor Zhu ...