Marking the 20th anniversary of the attack, the new documentary “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” coming to Apple TV+ in September, tells the story of 9/11 through the eyes of the presidency by gaining unprecedented access to the key decision makers who responded for the nation.
IFC Films debuted the official trailer for The Meaning of Hitler from filmmakers Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, examining fascination with Hitler and Nazism set against the backdrop of the current rise of white supremacy. The documentary opens in theaters and virtual cinemas starting August 13, 2021.c
MTV released the new trailer for Sabaya, the riveting documentary follows Mahmud, Ziyad and their group, armed with just a mobile phone and a gun, risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS as Sabaya (sex slaves) in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria. Directed by Hogir Hirori, the Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary opens in theaters and virtual cinemas starting on July 30.
The official trailer is here for the new Netflix documentary Pray Away that premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. In the documentary film (executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum), former leaders of the “pray the gay away” movement along with current members, and a survivor, chronicle the “ex gay” movement. Directed by Kristine Stolakis, Pray Away debuts globally on Netflix on August 3rd.
Filmmaker Mariam Ghani takes an intriguing looking at five unfinished Afghan Communist films in the documentary What We Left Unfinished opening in theaters and virtual cinemas nationwide on Friday, August 6th. Featured in the documentary are Afghan filmmakers Latif Ahmadi, Jawanshir Haidari, and Asadollah Aram
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power, filmmaker Abby Ginsberg’s (Waging Change, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa) inspiring documentary of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, the highest-ranking African American woman in the U.S. Congress will be released in theaters nationwide starting Friday, August 20, 2021.
Husband-and-wife helicopter news duo Marika Gerrard and Zoey Tur (known then as Bob) famous for capturing some of Los Angeles’ most epic breaking news stories recount the salacious details of their career in the Sundance documentary Whirlybird. Directed by Matt Yoka, the documentary film opens in selects theaters on Friday, August 6th (see below for theater listings).
Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s provocative new documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, “The Viewing Booth,” opens at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) on Friday, August 6.
Ashley O’Shay’s award-winning documentary Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, told through the lens of two fierce leaders Janaé and Bella. The documentary film will be released into theaters starting on August 20 at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as part of the programming for the re-opening of the theater. It will then open in New York the following week on August 27 and in Los Angeles on September 3, with a nationwide release in theaters and in virtual cinema.
Sony Pictures Classics released the official trailer for the “real-life art thriller” The Lost Leonardo, the documentary film on the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. Directed by Andreas Koefoed, the documentary which premiered at Tribeca Fest, opens in LA and NYC on Friday, August 13th, 2021.
Choreographer Bill T. Jones’s signature performance ballet “D-Man in the Water” is chronicled in the documentary Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters co-directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz.
The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage directed by Garret Price (“Love, Antosha”) tells the story of Woodstock 99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert but instead devolved into riots, looting and sexual assaults. The grim outcome earned the event the infamous distinction of “the day the nineties died.”