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By Gregory Crofton The Hip-Hop artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith bounded down onto the floor of the movie theater and told the projectionist to turn it up. The music playing over the end credits of the film got louder. Mic in…
[vimeo id=”28062577″] Acclaimed Belgian documentary filmmaker Agnes Varda directed this film about Huey Newton, a leader of the Black Panther movement, which started in 1966 in Oakland, Calif.
By Gregory Crofton “Made in Japan,” a 90-minute documentary film narrated by Elijah Wood, took 11 years to bring to the screen. It played twice this week at the Nashville Film Festival and both screenings were followed by a live…
By Gregory Crofton History comes alive in Stanley Nelson’s documentary about the Black Panthers, a revolutionary African-American political group that formed in 1966 to stop police brutality against their community. The Second Amendment — the right to bear arms —…
“Mama just always said, ‘you be what you are and you don’t have to worry about nothing’” — Dolly Parton as told to Lawrence Grobel on March 13, 1978
This short documentary profiles the champion bull rider Gary Leffew, whose insights on rodeos apply far beyond the sport.