Exhaustive and exhausting, the new energy documentary "Switch" is so monotonous it makes "An Inconvenient Truth" look like "Armageddon".
LCD's story was documented in the high energy documentary about the band's last shows in NYC, Shut Up And Play The Hits, which The Creators Project helped produce. .
But in recent years, after the birth of her son, Darius, now 8, Ms. Amanpour has put more energy into documentaries, including "In the Footsteps of Bin Laden"; last year's six-hour "God's Warriors," which won a Peabody Award; and the coming "Scream Bloody Murder," about genocide, which will be broadcast on Dec. 4.
Friedman also made two documentaries about energy and conservation, but he recalls that the real prompt to write "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" came early in 2007, while he was preparing a speech for a fund-raiser in Minnesota, in which he set out the idea of trying to redefine "green".
(Paramount Classics also used carbon offsets for some of the energy used for the documentary).
The network was singularly interested in the negative aspects of wind energy, leading to a documentary with this attention-grabbing trailer.
The quest to find and find meaning in those games is the focus of this documentary brimming with energy and optimism that was made by four Americans, three of whom were once collegiate soccer players.
His television series, a staple of the Discovery Channel, brings a jolt of mischievous energy to the sleepy nature documentary genre, attracting children who like their television fast and noisy.
This article is part of a joint reporting project with the PBS series "Frontline," which will broadcast a documentary about California's energy crisis on June 5.
— derives some of its effects, and energy, from its hybrid nature: half documentary, or half confession or argument or whatever, and full of references outside itself, whether obvious to the reader or not.
