The vigor and immediacy of "Driftwood" can be traced in part to its quasi-documentary origins, which Dwan discusses in a book of interviews with him done by Peter Bogdanovich, which is one of the most plainspoken and insightful movie books I know.
A recent documentary on the origins of baseball now has England joining the list of places claiming credit for starting the game.
Watching them going about their business, you don't feel the kind of fury inspired by "Inside Job," Charles Ferguson's great muckraking documentary on the origins of the financial crisis, but rather a mix of dread, disgust, pity and confusion.
Mr. Peralta, who was on far firmer ground in his documentary about the origins of the modern skateboard culture, "Dogtown and Z-Boys," has approached his new subject with heart but not enough intellectual skepticism.
Featuring movie clips and well-edited interviews with directors, producers, writers, and actors, the documentary traces the origins of a cultural revolution and the forces that made it both possible and necessary, and it has a satisfyingly booklike depth and heft.
Butler also reports that "we're talking to Ken Loach about Spirit of '45, a documentary about the origins of the welfare state, the NHS and nationalisation of industry and its resonances for now, and we're looking at building a digital project around that with him".
The documentary dates the origins of the crisis to the insertion of a provision in the 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act, introduced by Phil Gramm, the Texas Republican and former senator who was then chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, exempting credit-default swaps from government regulation.
Moog spoke with Russell E.L. Butler for their new documentary series, Sonic Origins.
The documentary explores the origins of Islam, an Abrahamic religion that developed in Arabia in the 7th century; it criticizes the orthodox Islamic account of this history, claiming that it lacks sufficient supporting evidence.
The set included a fifteen-minute-long documentary on the origins of the episode and background to the mirror universe in general as well as audio commentary from Mike Sussman and Tim Gaskill on both parts of the episode.
