"It's the art of being, not the act of performing," the experimental-theater director André Gregory muses in "André Gregory: Before and After Dinner," an indelible, gripping documentary portrait by his wife, Cindy Kleine.
While this gripping documentary skipped over how many innocent people get snooped on for every terrorist uncovered, even the most rabid conspiracy theorist would have to conclude that the ends justified the means in this instance.
This impressive, often gripping documentary investigates what appears to have been a conspiracy to conceal the number of attacks, several of them fatal, made by captive orca whales on their trainers in the US, Canada and the Canary Islands.
"BLACKFISH", a gripping new documentary about killer whales in captivity, feels like an action thriller.
In the event, the Oscar goes to the gripping eco-documentary The Cove.
"The desert is a metaphor for fate – anything can happen there," says James Crump, director of Troublemakers, a gripping new documentary film about these land artists.
Following Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani through that day, this gripping, sorrowful documentary includes images and sounds too terrible to be seen or heard eight months ago.
In "Last Days in Vietnam," Rory Kennedy's gripping new documentary about the fall of South Vietnam and the chaotic U.S. evacuation, Henry Kissinger, who was the Secretary of State, says of Ford, "He had two major concerns.
It's been almost 10 years since Seinfeld left a centre-stage position in American pop culture by concluding his eponymous sitcom in 1998 (and ceding the comedy crown to his former co-writer Larry David) while keeping a relatively low profile, apart from the gripping 2002 documentary Comedian, about his return to playing live shows.
Wright's tension-filled months leading up to her life-changing decision are the subject of Wish Me Away, a gripping feature-length documentary.
ESPN's five-part documentary is gripping and educational and made what I thought was a familiar story into something completely new and riveting.
