(Next on the schedule, on May 22, is "Gun Fight," on the politics of gun control, part of the network's "Choose or Lose" documentary series about young people and political involvement).
Jean-Luc Godard said cinema's great failure was its failure to show the Holocaust, an objection that has, in fact, gained a new currency with the restoration of Sidney Bernstein and Alfred Hitchcock's all but lost official documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, and André Singer's Night Will Fall, the documentary about how that film was nervously suppressed after the war.
As gorgeous and haunting as Turner's illustrative covers are, some jazz fans might still regret the lost period-documentary feel conveyed by, say, the portraits on many of the classic Blue Note album covers from the 1950s and '60s.
Wright has said that she worried about "succumbing" to telling a proper story, at the risk (I suppose) of losing the documentary virtues — impartiality, abundance of detail, variety and authenticity of voice.
Reinhold Misselbeck, the director of the department of photography and video at Museum Ludwig, who was curator of the current show, wrote of Mr. Hockney: "He is well aware the media, like photography, video and film, are losing the documentary quality hitherto attributed to them because of digital manipulation and that they are converging more with painting in their relation to reality".
Staff asked Guthrie questions about the loss of programs and experienced program-makers, and told her how upset the staff and listeners were to lose more documentary and music programs and explained why they had signed a no-confidence motion against RN management.
In 2011, Ms. Muñoz was the designated administration official to defend the deportations — which often separated children from parents — in a tough PBS documentary, "Lost in Detention".
He observes but hardly shapes, and his compositional sense is lost in a documentary recording that spares a point of view on the subject and falls into the conventions of filming organized action with a static camera, and amorphous action with a roving and poking handheld one.
Maybe this single line justifies the price of admission to Bombay Beach, an eerily compelling documentary about lost souls in a lost place, made by the former music-video director Alma Har'el.
5) Fascinating documentary: the lost dunks.
