Early in Vlad Yudin's new documentary, "Generation Iron," Phil Heath is weighing whether he's prepared to defend his Mr. Olympia title.
Raj Patel was part of the team that created the documentary, Generation Food Project, which shares the stories of people working to fix our broken food system.
But as much as Lauren Greenfield's latest documentary, Generation Wealth, exposes the heights of excess abroad, the crux of her focus is how mired conspicuous consumption is with the myth of the American Dream.
That year, he released three documentaries: "Generation Zero," which laid the blame for the financial crisis on the profligacy of liberal baby boomers; "Fire from the Heartland," which showcased the women of the Tea Party, above all Michele Bachmann; and "Battle for America," which rallied conservative voters.
Contrast that with the exaggerated sense of victimhood on full display recently in Washington DC when former presidential candidate Rick Santorum debuted the "documentary" One Generation Away.
In the documentary "First Generation," which had its New York City premiere at New York University on Wednesday night, four such teenagers forge their way to become the first in their families to go to college.
Ditto Ken Burns' related PBS documentary, Another Generation About Which There Is Much to Like.
Now, it's shifting focus to young people searching to find out more about their origins with the documentary series, "Generation Cryo," premiering in November. .
His portrayal of Michael, an executive at an MTV-like network, was the first big-screen display of the ambivalent Stiller persona: when his love interest, Lelaina (Winona Ryder), tells him that she plans to make a documentary about a generation without an identity, Michael says, "Wow, that's... that's... that sounds great.
The Atlantic's Adam Serwer suggested, in Anna Holmes' documentary The Loving Generation, that the US has long been pledging allegiance to two very different visions of what it means to be an American.
Through the 1960's and 70's, the National Film Board of Canada was based in Montreal, and its presence generated an entire generation of documentary filmmakers, among them Claude Jutra, who directed "Mon Oncle Antoine" (1971), still considered one of the finest Canadian films ever produced.
