"Kidnapped for Christ" is a compelling new documentary that follows the experiences of several American teenagers after they were kidnapped from their homes and shipped to Evangelical Reform schools located in the Dominican Republic.
That would be Sarah Polley's "Stories We Tell," an invigorating powerhouse of a personal documentary that was so adventurous and compelling that its absence from the final five was something of a shock.
But now, a new documentary that was shown over the weekend at both the Venice and Telluride film festivals has the potential to bring Ms. Vreeland's story, and a pretty compelling one it is, to a wider audience.
This remains an exhausting method of achieving pregnancy, but the complexity is nothing compared to what takes place in "Google Baby," a compelling documentary Wednesday on HBO2 that shows us how provincial the standard in-vitro fertilization procedure has become.
None of that means, necessarily, that a compelling documentary could not be made about her, but the filmmakers can't seem to decide what they're after.
But then the plight of our dwindling fish stocks hit the news and End of the Line – a disturbing but compelling documentary about overfishing – was released, and I realised that we should stop taking our precious natural resources for granted.
Value: The rare documentary that features a subject so compelling and has such incredibly high stakes that you think the filmmakers must have made everything up.
"The last thing I want to do is make something up," he said, adding that he told Condé Nast — and Ms. Wintour — that his plan was to film "The Fashion Fund" more like a compelling documentary.
Royal Oakes, a courtroom analyst for NBC, said yesterday that the case is likely to hinge on who can present the most compelling documentary evidence.
Computer screens and typing fingers don't make the most compelling documentary imagery.
