Documentaries

Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime, opened the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Lopez sizzled in a black velvet gown with sheer cutouts by Tom Ford, in the film’s world premiere.

It’s not surprising that Australian filmmaker Akhim Dev went gray while making his documentary, The Children in the Pictures. The powerful film takes us inside Task Force Argos, a renowned Australian-based police investigative team, as they go undercover to rescue children from online sexual abuse.

With territory stretching from the Sea of Japan to the edge of present-day Poland, and from the Arctic in the north to India in the south, the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries represents the largest contiguous land kingdom in history. Directed by Robert H.

Given both its title and the overlap in subject matter, a viewer could understandably be forgiven for taking a sidelong glance at A Taste of Whale and expecting an emotional companion piece to 2009’s The Cove. That film, helmed by Louie Psihoyos, found both the director and former Flipper trainer turned activist Richard O’Barry embedding with an elite team of eco-warriors and free divers as part of a covert mission to penetrate a tightly guarded fishing bay in Taiji, Japan, and expose the community’s annual slaughter of tens of thousands of dolphins.

The water catastrophe in Flint, Michigan, a city located roughly one hour northeast of Detroit, was a manmade disaster of epic proportions — an event that rocked the conscience of an entire nation and even garnered international attention. Beginning in 2014, most of the city’s 100,000-plus residents suffered exposure to contaminated water.

Pacific Islander Duke Paoa Kahanamoku was a four-time Olympic swimmer who picked up three gold and two silver medals, and just happened to almost single-handedly internationalize surfing — an effort whose planted seeds would then go on to flower into every other board sport in the world, from skateboarding to snowboarding. The first person to be inducted into both the Swimming Hall of Fame and Surfing Hall of Fame, Kahanamoku also broke through racial barriers many years before icons like Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson.

“As the Manila bureau chief for the Agence France-Presse [AFP], I was going to do a story on eco-tourism in Palawan. I thought it would be a fun story about this beautiful place.

“I’m real proud to introduce this next artist whose name became synonymous with courage and integrity,” Kris Kristofferson says as he introduces Sinéad O’Connor at Bob Dylan’s 30th-anniversary concert. This was 13 days after O’Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live, performing an emotional, acapella version of Bob Marley’s “War.

It is telling that March 8, universally recognized as Women’s Day, and May 1, just as universally recognized as International Workers’ Day, started in the U. S.

The Killing of a Journalist is director Matt Sarnecki’s second documentary focusing on the murder of a journalist investigating corruption. It premieres May 1, 2022, at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and probes the 2018 murder of Slovakian journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend, Martina Kušnírová.