Mr. Burn's first two major documentaries, "The Civil War" and "Baseball," which ran several hours over several nights, had been shown before the Internet was a part of everyday life for so many and before cable was so aggressively programming against the broadcast networks and PBS.
Among other highlights in the first of two documentaries, we learn about Kha's working day and a curious condition known as "wandering womb".
For the first time, two documentaries are up for the Golden Lion: Errol Morris's The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld, and Sacro GRA, a film about Rome's ring road.
With boxes of Fat Angie and my first two novels, documentary gear to capture the experience and a single piece of carry-on luggage, I rolled out of Cincinnati into the great unknown of winding roads, tornado weather and every imaginable thing to challenge my phobias.
Which brings us neatly on to Urbanized, the first of two documentary releases architecture-spotters should look out for this week.
First, at 6.30PM, two documentaries: Caribbean Fashion Week, the next release from our Fashion Week Internationale series, and The British Wrestler, a look at the machismo sodden and occasionally depressing world of UK underground wrestling.
First, at 6.30PM, two documentaries: The British Wrestler, a look at the machismo sodden and occasionally depressing world of UK underground wrestling, and Caribbean Fashion Week, the next release from our Fashion Week Internationale series, which details Kingston's passion for skin-bleaching and uncovers why girls think that swallowing agricultural chicken feed will make them look hotter.
"Wo Ai Ni Mommy" (the title means "I love you, Mommy" in Mandarin) is the first of three documentaries about cross-cultural adoption being shown on "P.O.V".
This is the first of three documentaries on the subject of war.
