Film

The Red, White and Blue Notes

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Jan 24, 2024 “Soundtrack to a Coup d'État” takes an impressionistic approach to the weaponization of American music during the Cold War. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Arts & Culture

The Sound of Silence On Screen

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Jan 23, 2023 An experimental Sundance documentary that upends audio-visual conventions. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Searching for San Francisco’s Lost Heart

Jordan Riefe / Truthdig Jun 6, 2019 Sundance Film Festival award-winner "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" zooms in on a once-vibrant culture dimmed by gentrification. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Ocasio-Cortez Came to ‘Knock Down the House’

Jordan Riefe / Truthdig May 1, 2019 Filmmakers Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick were there for all of it; their new documentary follows an ascendant AOC and three other women. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Movie on Deportation That Trump Needs to Watch

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Jan 31, 2019 A gripping film that just premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival covers a topic dear to the president. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How to Tell Nobel Winner Nadia Murad’s Story Without Trading on Her Pain

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Oct 16, 2018 Director Alexandria Bombach tells Truthdig how she avoided exploiting her subject's traumatic past in making her new documentary, “On Her Shoulders.” Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

‘Strong Island’ Recounts Slaying of Director’s Unarmed Brother

Jordan Riefe / Truthdig Sep 15, 2017 The new film provides a personal perspective on the wider issue of racism in the U.S. criminal justice system. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TRAPping Access to Safe, Legal Abortions

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Jan 28, 2016 The same week a Houston grand jury found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood in an abortion-related case, a documentary came out about states' increasing use of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers laws, which result in the closure of women’s health clinics. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

AUDIO: Can You Tell Good From Evil in ‘Cartel Land’?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 12, 2015 The filmmaker behind the spellbinding, Sundance award-winning documentary out in theaters this month tells KPFK host Joshua Scheer about the moral confusion that prevails in border towns where vigilantes struggle against the violence of drug cartels and the rule of law has vanished. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Civil Rights: From Sundance, to Selma, to South Carolina

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jan 29, 2015 On March 21, 1915, a motion picture was screened for the first time inside the White House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Satirical Film ‘Dear White People’ Invites You to Check Your Privilege

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jun 23, 2014 "The story revolves around four black kids at a mostly white Ivy League college," director Justin Simien told Amy Goodman in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. That's the basic premise of Simien's much-awaited debut comedy "Dear White People," a film that promises to do much more than just make you laugh. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Aaron Swartz: The Life We Lost and the Day We Fight Back

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jan 23, 2014 A year after Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz's suicide at the age of 26, a film about this remarkable young man has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )