It also comes, not entirely by coincidence, just a few days before the HBO documentary, "The Trials of Ted Haggard," is broadcast, beginning Thursday.
Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki's documentary "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," which has the first of three festival screenings tomorrow at 4 30 p.m., is an unauthorized biography of the former Secretary of State.
Bill Siegel, director of the documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali, argued these years not only helped Ali forge his dissident voice, but showed him he was part of a broader, younger, grassroots anti-war movement.
By David Denby At the beginning of the documentary "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," the then national-security adviser to Richard Nixon grins broadly, his eyes shining behind the dark-framed glasses that became his signature.
"He was able to be both larger-than-life and completely down-to-earth simultaneously," said Chicago director Bill Siegel, whose 2014 documentary "The Trials of Muhammad Ali" documented Ali's four years out of the ring.
BBC2 is airing two documentaries, Benedict: Trials of a Pope and Newman Saintt or Sinner?
Mr. Wiley first referred to the ouster of Judge Hadi, without naming him, in an interview for a television documentary, "The Trial of Saddam Hussein," which will appear on the series "America at a Crossroads" on PBS stations on Oct. 12.
This staged trial, known by the name of its most prominent defendant, Rudolf Slansky, erstwhile General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, is the subject of Zuzana Justman's soberly compelling documentary "A Trial in Prague," opening Sept. 14 at the Quad Theater.
In 2007, Barnett was featured in the documentaries The Trials of Law School and In Search of the Second Amendment; he also portrayed an assistant prosecutor in the independent film InAlienable.
Kriegman was Weiner's district-office chief of staff before he left politics to make movies, and the portrait he's drawn with Steinberg, known for her work with PBS on the documentary The Trial of Saddam Hussein, is as sympathetic as Weiner could have hoped for.
