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The Wire

Importance of Frontline

Frontline existed since 1983, as the flagship of public affairs series and documentaries, untarnished by anchors and hype, on PBS.

It Takes a Nation of Lawyers to Hold Us Back - Design Observer

Source: designobserver.com

When the Smithsonian Institution recently announced a deal with Showtime to create a joint venture called Smithsonian Networks, documentary filmmakers and free-speech advocates were outraged by the prospect of a single corporation having exclusive rights to a public trust (the Smi

Giuliani Documentary Seeks to Get Beyond Heroic 9/11 Image

Source: nytimes.com

"If the film does not take a wrecking ball to Mr. Giuliani's pedestal, it at least serves as a reminder of all the controversy, all the fighting and all the dirty laundry that defined him before the halo effect set in after the terrorist attacks."

Lazy Me

Source: insidehighered.com

"It’s not that Les Amis was a unique outpost....On the contrary, any decent campus must have such pockets of creative impracticality — places where people mingle, where loitering is permitted, even encouraged.

Google Releases Classic Films

Source: google.com

Google has teamed up with the National Archives to offer historically as well as culturally important films. Such diverse videos are: documentaries, government newsreels from WWII, and movies typically from the '30s.