“War of the Worlds” the most famous invasion that never happened – 75th...
“War of the Worlds,” PBS American Experience 9 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday (Check local listings) In 1938, Americans might let their car payments go or give up their telephones, but 80 percent of...
View ArticleMy interview with director Nancy Tong on the INNetwork
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View Article“JFK: Like No Other” PBS documentary on 50th anniversary of JFK’s death
“JFK: Like No Other,” PBS American Experience 9 p.m. Eastern time Nov. 11 (part one) and Nov. 12 (part two) (Check local listings) Millions of us remember where we were at the exact moment we heard the...
View Article“How Sherlock Holmes Changed the World” PBS doc about the world’s first CSI
9 p.m. EST Tuesday, PBS (Check local listings) For fans of Sherlockology, this two-hour BBC documentary will confirm the belief that Sherlock Holmes is the greatest and most influential detective in...
View ArticleCesar Chavez’ last fast frames new documentary
If you ask director and filmmaker Richard Ray Perez if the story of Cesar Chavez chose him or if he chose to tell Chavez’s story, he would say both. Following the screening of his new film, “Cesar’s...
View Article“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago” has a story for everyone
When director Emilio Estevez’ feature narrative film “The Way” was released in 2011, audiences across the United States and many countries were introduced for the first time to the ancient pilgrimage...
View ArticleThe Truth-telling Power of Documentaries
From my article that appears in the June, 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic: In 2012 Sister Simone Campbell and the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK launched the “Nuns on the Bus” tour to “live the...
View Article“Korengal” Same valley, same soldiers, different story
One of the loglines for Sebastian Junger’s latest documentary film “Korengal” is: “Same valley, same soldiers. Different journey” while another reads: “This is what war feels like.” In one way...
View Article‘The Roosevelts: An Intimate History’ best TV you may not be watching
Last Sunday night, September 14, PBS began airing a 7-part, 14-hour documentary series about two U.S. presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. This...
View Article‘The Decent One’: Documentary on Himmler a compelling contribution to...
Heinrich Himmler — the Nazi Gestapo chief, head of the German police in the Third Reich, head of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reich Minister of the Interior — was born to a Catholic family...
View Article‘Klansville USA’ on PBS outlines the 1954 rise of the KKK
“Klansville U.S.A.” is a relatively short film that documents a portion of U.S. history that few may be aware of: the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina after the Brown vs. Board of Education...
View Article‘Tower’ film marks 50th anniversary of Texas school shooting
Fifty years ago, on August 1, 1966, a 24-year-old sniper positioned himself on the observation deck of the Clock Tower overlooking the University of Texas, Austin. His name was Charles Joseph Whitman....
View ArticleAn American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story – Exclusive clips from PBS
A provocative new one-hour documentary, An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story, directed by Martin Doblmeier (Chaplains, Bonhoeffer, The Power of Forgiveness) is airing on PBS stations in...
View ArticlePray Away: the failure of conversion therapy for gay people
In my review of the 2018 narrative film “Boy Erased,” based on the 2016 book Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley, I wrote that the film “is a starting point for parents wondering what God is...
View Article“3212 Un-Redacted” reveals U.S. Army cover-up about soldiers killed in Niger...
3212 Un-Redacted premiers on November 11, 2021, HULU As I write this review of the extraordinary documentary premiering on Hulu November 11, 2021, I am mindful that this is the birthday of the Servant...
View ArticleWill Smith welcomes us to earth in new Disney+ series
In a new six-part series from NatGeo and Disney+, actor Will Smith accompanies big names in earth’s exploration to some fascinating, mysterious, scary, and beautiful places on earth, some of which we...
View Article“In Solidarity with Ukraine” new doc from the Knights of Columbus on ABC...
This moving new documentary “In Solidarity with Ukraine” from the Knights of Columbus is a look at the Catholic organization’s incredibly swift response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during the...
View ArticleInterview: on making “Teilhard Visionary Scientist”
Back in March (2024) I had the privilege of interviewing Frank and Mary Frost of Frank Frost Productions about their highly anticipated new documentary “Teilhard: Visionary Scientist.” The film, which...
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