Very thorough documentary about the first woman prime minister in the Muslim world.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the play's première, Ric Burns has directed an intensely moving and historically thorough documentary, "Eugene O'Neill," which premières on March 27 as part of PBS's "American Experience".
The most thorough documentary exploration of the three days of unrest beginning June 28 , 1969 when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a seedy Mafia-operated gay bar in Greenwich Village, turned on the police after a routine raid, "Stonewall Uprising" methodically ticks off the forms of oppression visited on gays and lesbians in the days before the gay rights movement.
Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film, which won the Oscar for best feature documentary, "thorough, understated and altogether enthralling".
In Alex Gibney's thorough and indignant documentary, some of Murphy's victim's speak out, using the eloquence of American Sign Language and the confidence of the disability rights movement to demand justice.
PBS, which is marking the second anniversary of Sept. 11 on Monday night with "The Center of the World," a very thorough two-part documentary on the rise -- and fall -- of the World Trade Center, has the opposite problem.
Nina comes on the heels of the very thorough (and Academy Award-nominated) documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an eye-opening account of the classically trained pianist-turned-High Priestess of Soul who suffered managerial/spousal abuse, alcoholism and mental illness.
At the very least, they offer a remarkably thorough and unstudied documentary record of their time, capturing "the panorama of human activities: eating, sleeping, labor, worship, animal husbandry, amateur theatrics, barn-raising, spirit-rapping, dissolution, riot, disaster, death".
For example, health information on television could be interpreted equally as a health theme in a situation comedy, a brief story on the evening news, or a thorough and balanced documentary.
This documentary is thorough, offering an abundance of smart interviews with numerous players from all sides.
A contentious subject – the role of Bobby Sands, and of hunger strikes in general, in the Irish republican movement – is approached with intelligence and restraint in this thorough and well-researched documentary.
