The "Grey's Anatomy" actor and executive producer of BET's "Stay Woke" documentary, delivered a powerful speech that touched on the sacrifices of black women to their community, police violence, the commodification and appropriation and a need for action that drove his audience to their feet and audiences at home to their keyboards. .
The "Grey's Anatomy" actor, teacher and producer/star of BET's "Stay Woke" documentary delivered arguably one of the most searing speeches in the history of televised awards shows, touching on the moral urgency of the Black Lives Matters movement and the "conditional" freedom of African Americans even in today's America.
The link between the Internet and violent crimes has been made before, but this documentary delivers its case with a sickening punch.
And a little like Michael Moore's polemical films, the documentary delivers its most striking indictments not in the facts but in the sly visual juxtapositions.
On Sunday Mr. Jackson's production company, Wingnut Films, announced the completion of "West of Memphis," a nonfiction feature directed by Amy Berg, whose 2006 documentary, "Deliver Us From Evil," about a Roman Catholic priest who confessed to numerous acts of child molestation and rape, was nominated for an Oscar.
This fine documentary delivers on details and gives us the broad strokes.
"Ellis [Cose]'s documentary delivers the message that we should applaud more frequently those people who transform a potentially lost life into a meaningful one -- one in which a person has rejected despair for hope and traded devastating experiences with guns, drugs, and violence for the joy that education, employment, and a commitment to doing good brings".
Al-Shabab's well-produced video documentaries deliver the jihadi narrative in an appealing form to Somali audiences in the diaspora.
Eva Orner, director of detention centre exposé Chasing Asylum, which won best documentary feature, delivered a politically-charged speech calling on the Australian federal government to abolish its legislation punishing whistleblowers reporting on detention centres.
After all, what better way to disseminate hate propaganda than under the unassuming guise of a documentary film delivered in Americans' daily newspapers?
Michael Moore waded into the presidential election with "Michael Moore in TrumpLand," a film of a one-man stage performance that the documentary filmmaker delivered in Ohio, all but begging the Rust Belt to abandon the Donald.
