"Girlhood" is the newest entry in Ms. Garbus's long list of socially concerned documentaries made for theaters and television.
They shared the style of "concerned" social documentary photography, taking street pictures with human subjects and applying a classical black-and-white composition to them.
After four years of making newsreels he turned to documentaries, several concerned with art.
Because the makers of many documentaries are more concerned about their information coming to light, they offer free viewing of them online.
(Concerned parents can view the fascinating documentary "Minecraft: The Story of Mojang" for more info).
Alexander, the filmmaker, described a documentary he was working on that concerned the creation of artificial life-forms, such as a fish that contains plant DNA and can feed itself by floating in the sun and photosynthesizing.
His first wider success, the 1994 documentary London, by turns painterly and grumpy, concerned itself with "the problem" of the capital – in his view, its lack of charisma and of functionality compared to other European cities.
Her new piece is equally concerned with moral justice but has none of the documentary-style precision of its predecessor.
This was a boom period for documentary photography in general, and the birth of "concerned" or "humanitarian" photography, still very much black-and-white "mood -influenced.
Cleverly structured around John F. Kennedy's 1961 address to the United Nations about disarmament, Lucy Walker's alarming documentary assembles a nuclear Who's Who of concerned scientists, writers and politicians.
