"Fans of the genre will enjoy a history of the art form and additional interviews with industry insiders and award-winning filmmakers who contribute their tips, tricks, and advice. Aspiring filmmakers will find advice covering the whole production process--from developing a concept to marketing and distribution. This edition has up-to-the-moment technical information on the latest cameras and equipment and a fully updated resource guide with contact...

Jonathan Gold pulls back the curtain on the perceived superficiality of Los Angeles to show viewers a genuine and vibrant world where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic doorway to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America.

"Even with claims of a new 'post-truth' era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more nonfiction movies are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating and compounding our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. How did this happen? Providing answers, Screening Reality is a widescreen view of the rarely examined relationship between nonfiction movies and American history--how 'reality'...

In the positivity-focused town of Serenity, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Mackenzie Werner, who can visually display her emotions as colorful haze, finds her perfect world challenged when a documentary maker arrives and the town's true emotions are exposed for everyone to see.

Documents the story of one man's passionate search to solve a literary mystery. In 1972, Mark Moskowitz bought a copy of The stones of summer by Dow Mossman but couldn't get past the first few pages. Twenty-five years later, he tried again and fell in love with the book. Looking for other books by the author, he found no mention of Mossman or his novel. Moskowitz then travels the country on a quest to discover how such a well-received book vanished...

Follows a blind and autistic twenty-year-old woman as she searches to make her dreams and passions come true and finds acceptance in a fringe community.

Were you one of the more than 80,000 people around the globe who were uploading their personal video of what happened in their lives on July 24th, 2010? Directed by Kevin MacDonald and produced by Ridley Scott, these two filmmakers sifted through over 4,500 hours of footage to create one incredible motion picture event. Created entirely from footage uploaded by YouTube users, it is the story of our world.

They are the voices behind the greatest rock, pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now, in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, and more.

Three years of shooting were needed by five teams in order to follow bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to another, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps.

"Worldwide, alcohol abuse kills more people than HIV, nearly 3.3 million per year. Yet what the public believes, and Alcoholics Anonymous purports, 'Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic,' is not as true as you think. Nor is the fundamental principle for treating alcoholism that we all take as truth; abstinence. Science has shown that abstinence not only doesn't take away the addiction, but also increases the craving. So why has one modality dominated...