The doubts cast by the series as to Avery and Dassey's guilt (the two are currently serving time in prison for their alleged crimes) have ignited a firestorm of backlash, most notably from rightwing news anchor Nancy Grace, who has in recent weeks launched an all-out assault on the documentary, accusing its makers of neglecting key evidence that proves Avery and his nephew are guilty.
And so it was with "Spinal Tap," which not only assaulted the rock documentary and left it for dead but practically killed heavy metal as a musical species.
The two pillars forming the core of "anticommunist films" were war films and spy films.8 The first Korean war film, the documentary An Assault of Justice (Chŏngŭi ŭi chin'gyŏk, dir: Han Hyŏng-mo, 1951) induced both the pleasure of spectacle and horror of war and was repeatedly used as the typical image of the Korean War even as recently as a few years ago.
But Fahrenheit 9/11, in which he basically blamed the Bush family for enabling Osama bin Laden's assault on America, put documentaries over the top.
"The Invisible War," a documentary about rape and sexual assault in the military that was recently nominated for an Oscar in the documentary feature category, has been credited with both persuading more women to come forward to report abuse and with forcing the military to deal more openly with the problem.
I set out to organise a screening of The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault at US colleges that has been a major catalyst for change, both in the US and Australia.
Ms. Gillibrand, who has handed out scores of copies of a documentary on sexual assault in the military, keeps a huge whiteboard in her office listing all the senators' names, ranked by the probability of their support (five is a yes), and has a little celebration with each positive update.
Dick and Ziering are the Academy Award-nominated team behind "The Invisible War," a 2012 documentary about sexual assault in the military.
Director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering's documentary about sexual assault in the military, The Invisible War, was deservedly nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar in 2013.
George Philipas is a photojournalist who's currently working on a documentary about child assault in Khayelitsha, focusing on these frontline services.
