As the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan continue, effectively ending the 20-year war, award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi timely film My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan will open in theaters on August 27th.
Greenwich Entertainment will release the documentary Try Harder! directed by Debbie Lum (Seeking Asian Female) that premiered to glowing reviews at Sundance. Greenwich will release Try Harder! this fall on December 3 during the college application season.
Netflix gives us a look at the life of the famed artist Bob Ross in the documentary Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed. Directed by Joshua Rofé, the documentary film will be released on August 25, 2021.
HBO’s Nuclear Family, a three-part documentary series debuting Sunday, September 26 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) and airing subsequent Sundays at the same time, follows filmmaker Ry Russo-Young as she turns the camera on her own past to explore the meaning of family.
A&E Network goes behind the scenes of the Playboy Mansion in the documentary Secrets of Playboy exploring the hidden truths behind the fable and philosophy of the Playboy empire through a modern-day lens.
Film Forum released the official trailer for Little Girl, Sébastien Lifshitz’s empathetic documentary portrait of a French trans girl and her family. The documentary opens in theaters on Friday, September 17 at Film Forum, with a wider national release to follow.
Greenwich Entertainment will release Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty’s haunting documentary Love It Was Not in movie theaters starting Friday, November 12. The films looks at the impossible and tragic love story between Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and the Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
NYC Epicenters 9/11 – 2021 1/2, a four-part documentary essay on New York City produced and directed by Spike Lee (HBO’s “4 Little Girls”, “When the Levees Broke”) debuts Sunday, August 22 on HBO.
Buried, a four-part documentary series, about how one woman’s long-repressed memory of her childhood best friend’s murder sparked a national debate about the power and limitations of memory in the court of law will air on Showtime.
Director Rachel Fleit’s follows actress Selma Blair as she reckons with the next chapter of her life after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in the documentary film Introducing, Selma Blair.
Showtime released the trailer for the new documentary film Detainee 001, directed by Emmy®-winner Greg Barker (The Final Year, Sergio, Manhunt, Legion of Brothers). The film unpacks the mysteries surrounding the young American man, John Walker Lindh, found on the battlefield in Afghanistan alongside the people who were supposed to be his enemy. The story reveals how society views the “enemy from within” and the shifting allegiances during the war on terror.
