A clutch of the year's leading documentaries have emerged as Oscar frontrunners after Ampas (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) revealed its 15-strong shortlist for the best documentary award.
In the past several decades, true-crime documentaries have emerged as a kind of secondary appeals system, among them Errol Morris's "The Thin Blue Line"; the three "Paradise Lost" movies; and the damning "Deliver Us from Evil," in which Amy Berg got a pedophile priest to confess.
Once limited to your Panoramas or Dispatches, in recent years a youth subgenre of documentary has emerged, fronted by personalities such as Yates, or even celebrities like Charli XCX.
The request by Ms. Sánchez to travel to Brazil for the screening of a documentary had emerged as a test of Cuba's restrictive travel policies for its own citizens and Brazil's willingness to prod a friendly government on a prominent human rights issue.
Little documentary evidence has emerged about the photograph's provenance.
Silicon Valley was initially sceptical of some allegations about NSA practices made by Snowden but as more documentary evidence has emerged in the Guardian and other newspapers detailing the extent of western surveillance capabilities, its eight leading players – collectively valued at $1.4tn – have been stung into action amid fears of commercial damage.
In news that may come as a crushing blow to anyone who has been wondering if Coronation Street might not actually be a fly-on-the-wall documentary after all, it has emerged this week that, with auditions already under way, The X Factor still has a "shopping list" of acts it wants for the live finals.
MUNICH, Germany, 15 May 2006 – 'The Domaseller & The Badamwalla', a TV documentary about children in Bhutan, has emerged as the winner of the UNICEF Special Prize at the 2006 Prix Jeunesse International Festival in Munich.
Bhutan TV documentary wins UNICEF prize at film festival highlighting children MUNICH, Germany, 15 May 2006 – 'The Domaseller & The Badamwalla', a TV documentary about children in Bhutan, has emerged as the winner of the UNICEF Special Prize at the 2006 Prix Jeunesse International Festival in Munich.
