Meanwhile, Senna continues its assault on the all-time documentaries chart, having expanded at the weekend to an astonishing (and presumably unsustainable) 338 screens.
As a filmmaker, Darcy has produced three prime time documentaries in Kenya, Rwanda and Sudan respectively.
Showtime has already contributed to the election postmortem with "Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time," a documentary that aired Feb. 3. PBS also dedicated a January episode of "Frontline" to chronicling how the hell Trump made it all the way to the White House.
This time, documentary filmmakers appear intensely focused on a rotting America.
The opening of Citizen Kane is indistinguishable from a March of Time documentary, and that virtuosity is precisely what we relish about it.
For those who have followed Malala's saga only since a Taliban fighter shot her, Mufti's detailed accounting of her slow rise — she appeared in a Times documentary, in 2009 — may prove surprising.
When Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement in 2013 – "quite serious" this time – documentary director Kaku Arakawa was skeptical.
Capitalism: A Love Story is just under $10 million, and it will break into the all-time top ten documentary list next weekend.
He assured Mr. Yellin that ABC would continue to, in effect, subcontract some prime-time documentaries to the group.
She is also working to get Times video on portal sites like Yahoo, and is fielding interest from television networks on using Times documentaries.
"Chicken" is the fifth in his series of excellent, funny, and very non-prime-time documentaries that end up being less about animals than about humans.
