In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, Williams produced dozens of CBS documentaries, among them the return of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the beaches of Normandy on the twentieth anniversary of D Day.
New documentary Among The Believers, for example, visits an fundamentalist madrassa in Pakistan, while Hooligan Sparrow tells the story of a Chinese activist who faced state surveillance, intimidation and arrest for exposing a paedophile teacher.
It's a portrait of Maulana Aziz, who runs the Red Mosque in Pakistan, which is basically the recruiting series of madrasses," says film critic Owen Gleiberman, describing the documentary Among the Believers.
Documentaries -- Among the flood of movies and documentaries about surfing, Bra Boys ($29.99; Berkela) stands out with its story of the Abberton brothers, four lads tangled up in murder and heroin and violence and poverty who only feel free on the waves.
When Pack was a producer, his company, Manifold Productions, made a number of PBS documentaries — among them "God and the Inner City" and "Inside the Republican Revolution: The First Hundred Days" — that were applauded by conservatives.
It would be more accurate to say that documentaries are among the most valuable, neglected cultural forms of our time.
Surf documentaries were among the most popular and important subgenres in the early days of our industry's cinematic renaissance of the 1970s.
His exploits have been described in magazine articles and television documentaries, and "Among the Bears" is his chance to tell of his adventures and research.
In the aughts, he directed polemical documentaries, among them "Fire from the Heartland" and "District of Corruption".
In the aughts, he directed polemical documentaries, among them "Fire from the Heartland" and "District of Corruption". A former associate of Bannon's in California recalls him as a strategic thinker who was adept at manipulating the media.
Some, such as the early features (including "The Lady Without Camelias," from 1953) and the recent documentaries (among them "Making a Film for Me Is Life," from 1995, by the director's wife, Enrica), are temptingly rare; others, like "L'Eclisse" ("The Eclipse"), gleam more darkly with every viewing.
