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By Gregory Crofton “La Liste: Everything or Nothing” is a sequel of sorts. Several years ago extreme athlete Jérémie Heitz decided to make a list of 15 peaks in the Swiss Alps. The goal was to climb each one and…
By Gregory Crofton I tried to stick with “Attica,” a new documentary about the 1971 prison riot in Upstate New York, but it was dry and newsy — I felt like I had already seen it as soon as a…
By Gregory Crofton Now in its 12th year DOC NYC, a massive in-person and online documentary film festival, begins this week and will screen more than 120 feature-length docs from Nov. 10-28. The films will be shown in-person from Nov.…
On May 30, 1921, a young Black Greenwood resident was arrested for allegedly assaulting a white woman in a downtown elevator. The next day, mobs of white Tulsans, thwarted in their attempt to lynch the man, invaded the district with…
By Gregory Crofton The documentary “Weed & Wine,” a selection at this year’s DOC NYC, is part of its director’s mission to help normalize the marijuana business. Rebecca Richman Cohen’s new film juxtaposes the daily lives of a long-time wine…
Barack and Michelle Obama picked the film “American Factory” to be the first film backed by their company Higher Ground. Now the film is Oscar nominated for Best Documentary Feature and available on Netflix. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviews…
