Having begun with the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn Bridge, Burns consistenly offers iconic, expansive documentaries with bark intact, starting with titles (Baseball, The Civil War, The Dust Bowl) and then into his forthright, intimate investigations of American history.
Netflix will also premiere an expansive new documentary about Amanda Knox and the murder of Meredith Kercher.
"Makers: Women Who Make America," an expansive, multipart documentary beginning Tuesday on PBS that chronicles the modern feminist movement, illustrates, among other things, how much of the ethos of the 1950s still coursed through the system in the decades that followed.
It's only fitting that Harry Belafonte's big, bountiful life has inspired an expansive, understandably hagiographic documentary, "Sing Your Song".
And it is widely recognised as not only one of the greatest sports movies ever made, but one of the most expansive and compassionate documentaries of all time.
The Netflix platform could thus allow for a more expansive, fluid type of documentary, he said.
The resulting split-screen documentary juxtaposes the expansive nature of Mr. Gonzalez's life experience against intimate close-ups that seek to portray his inner self.
I think he had seen some of my other work, and he's such a kind of cultured, well-expansive person that he appreciated documentary pursuits.
As Mr. McDaniels dug through footage, he talked about a more expansive project, a true hip-hop documentary, that he said would portray a street-level perspective of the culture.
The result is his new documentary Fail State, an expansive and infuriating account of the rise of profit-driven colleges, their devastating effects on low-income students, and the ways Republicans and Democrats have aided and abetted their treachery.
