Documentary
Documentary
Smithsonian Channel’s Top 10 Most-Watched Videos of 2020
by JOHN ADAMS •
0:00 – Intro to Top 10 Most Watched Videos of 2020 00:23 – Unleashing a Medieval Trebuchet 2:27 – Lioness Won’t Let Cub’s Father Near 6:25 – Bombing Exposes the Navy’s Need for New Boat 10:13 – 15th Century Weapon of War Fired 100 Arrows at Once 12:22 – Terrifying Dwarf Croc Holds Its Breath 15:28 – Egyptologists Open Newly-Discovered Pyramid 18:50 – Roman…
Adventure, Documentary, Environment, Film, Nature, Weather
Film: Glacier Exit
by JOHN ADAMS •
2020 Presidential Election, America, Courts, Documentary, Economy, Film, Law, Trump
Frontline: Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Supreme Court
by JOHN ADAMS •
With the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett days before the 2020 presidential election, conservatives solidified a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court — and the chance to shape American life and policy for a generation. Behind it all was a powerful Republican from Kentucky: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for whom Barrett’s confirmation was…
2020 Presidential Election, America, Coronavirus, Culture, Documentary, Economy, Elections, Film, Trump, Voting Rights
Frontline: A Nation in Turmoil (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Filmed across the country this past year by a production team headed by Mike Shum and Blair Woodbury, “American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil” captures the diverse perspectives of a number of people — a pastor, a barber, a doctor, an activist and more — as they deal with COVID-19 in their communities, respond to…
Coronavirus, Documentary, Film, Public Health
Totally Under Control
by JOHN ADAMS •
Update, 10.31.20 — ‘Totally Under Control’ Documentary Streams for Free Through Election Day: “Neon is making “Totally Under Control,” its documentary about the White House’s response to COVID-19, available to stream on its website for free through Election Day on Nov. 3.” Original post from 10.27.20 follows — Noted documentarian Alex Gibney’s Totally Under Control recounts…
Coronavirus, Documentary, Poverty
Frontline: Growing Up Poor in America (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
?? The documentary, “Growing Up Poor in America,” follows three children and their families in the battleground state of Ohio as the COVID-19 pandemic amplifies their struggle to stay afloat. In early 2020, it was estimated that almost 12 million children in America were living in poverty — a burden disproportionately borne by Black and…
Documentary, Film
Film: Knocking Down the Fences
by JOHN ADAMS •
The story of AJ Andrews, the first woman to win a Rawlings Gold Glove.
America, Culture, Documentary, Film, History, Race
A Black Cowboy’s Story
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of the American West. They’re mythologized as strong, independent people who live and die by their own terms on the frontier. And in movies, the people who play them are mostly white. But as with many elements of Americana, the idea of who cowboys are is actually whitewashed…
Coronavirus, Documentary
Frontline: Love, Life & the Virus (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
?? The story of a young mother in a coma battling COVID-19 after giving birth — and the schoolteacher who stepped in to care for the newborn. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Director Oscar Guerra chronicles a 30-year-old mother named Zully and her fight to survive COVID and see her newborn baby,…
Conspiracy Theories, Coronavirus, Documentary
Conspiracy Theories: A Frontline Documentary and Coronavirus Disinformation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Of Alex Jones & Roger Stone, Frontline’s United States of Conspiracy describes how “trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House. [It’s an] investigation of the alliance among conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and the president — and their role in the battle over…
Agriculture, Coronavirus, Documentary
Frontline: COVID’s Hidden Toll (Full Film)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Coronavirus, Documentary, Federal Government, ICE, Negligence, Public Health
How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embedded above is a video documentary to accompany the reporting of Emily Kassie and Barbara Marcolini on How ICE Exported the Coronavirus (linked at FREE WHITEWATER earlier today.)
Crime, Documentary, Drug War, History, Opioids, Public Health
The Public Health Crisis before the Public Health Crisis
by JOHN ADAMS •
Frontline’s Opioids, Inc. (full film): Pushing opioids. Bribing doctors. Making millions. FRONTLINE and the Financial Times investigate how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller up to 100 times stronger than heroin — and how some Wall Street investors looked the other way. Since 2007, communities like Whitewater have faced a Great Recession, an opioid…