It began with a European documentary filmmaker interviewing the inmate, probably a reference to Werner Herzog's current documentary "Into the Abyss".
Julie Salamon writes that Traudl Junge, the subject of the current documentary "Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary," had been "silent on the subject of Hitler for 50 years".
What makes the current documentary perhaps even more unusual is that it was purchased at the behest of Robert Wright, now chairman and chief executive of NBC Universal.
Q: Your current documentary, "Only the Strong Survive," which you directed with your wife, Chris Hegedus, chronicles some of the legends of soul music.
See "Boiler Room" from 2000, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" (2010), "Margin Call" from last year and even the current documentary "The Queen of Versailles," Lauren Greenfield's film about a fabulously wealthy family laid low, in which schadenfreude plays a major factor.
In the current documentary film "In the Shadow of the Moon," Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 pilot who remained in lunar orbit during the landing, recalls that on the crew's world tour afterward, people they met felt they had participated in the landing, too.
Andrew Jarecki's current documentary, "Capturing the Friedmans," which depicts another Nassau County case, suggests that a son who is facing child-sex charges can see any chance of an acquittal vanish if his father pleads guilty to sexually assaulting the same children.
Q: How did that scale up into your current documentary project?
Ninety-three year old eccentric fashion icon Iris Apfel is the subject of Albert Maysles current documentary, Iris.
