PBS will air a new three-part documentary series following teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg as she seeks to raise awareness of the accelerating climate change. The documentary titled Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (w.t.) premieres in its entirety as a special presentation on Earth Day, Thursday, April 22 at 8:00-11:00 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide. Encore airings of all three episodes air Wednesdays, April 28 – May 12, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET (check local listings).
HBO released the trailer for COVID Diaries NYC, chronicling the lives of five young filmmakers, ranging in age from 17 to 21, who turn their cameras on themselves to tell the stories of their families during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The deeply personal film illuminates the plight of essential workers and their families during the early days of the COVID-19 crisis as they navigate the deadly virus and a country riven by social upheaval. COVID Diaries NYC debuts Tuesday, March 9 (9:00-9:40 ET/PT) on HBO.
Courage is an inspiring and encouraging documentary about the peaceful uprising of the people of Belarus against injustice and the brutal repression of their democracy movements.
Without Getting Killed or Caught, is a remarkable documentary film about the mythical, complicated relationship between legendary songwriters Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt, and the art it inspired
Hulu announced its 2021 Spring original documentary slate featuring “kid 90” and SXSW official selections “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” and “Sasquatch”.
HBO’s The Crime of the Century, a two-part documentary directed by Emmy(R) and Academy Award(R) winner Alex Gibney (HBO’s “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” “Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief”), is described as a searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates. Exploring the origins, extent and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, with half a million deaths from overdoses this century alone, the film reveals that America’s opioid epidemic is not a public health crisis that came out of nowhere. The documentary The Crime of the Century will debut on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max this May.
The new documentary Tina, from Academy Award®-winning directors Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, is a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, charting her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. The documentary debuts Saturday, March 27 (8:00 PM- 10:00 PM ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Chris Smith the six-part HBO Sports Documentary series 100 Foot Wave premiering this spring, intimately captures the decade-long odyssey of surfing pioneer Garrett McNamara, who, after visiting Nazaré, Portugal in hopes of conquering a 100-foot wave, pushed the sport to ever-greater heights and alongside locals helped transform the small fishing village into the world’s preeminent big-wave surfing destination.
Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, the filmmakers behind the successful Emmy Award-winning, Sundance and SXSW audience film “Science Fair,” team up with National Geographic Documentary Films on the feature documentary “Own the Room”, which will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on March 12.
Magnolia Pictures released a new trailer for the documentary A Glitch in the Matrix, directed by Rodney Ascher, that premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The film opened in select theaters and on VOD on Friday, February 5th, 2021.
HBO today announced Allen v. Farrow, a four-part documentary series that goes behind decades of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of one of Hollywood’s most notorious and public scandals: the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving Dylan, his then seven-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow; their subsequent custody trial, the revelation of Allen’s relationship with Farrow’s daughter, Soon-Yi; and the controversial aftermath in the years that followed. Once celebrated for their on and off-screen partnership, Farrow and Allen’s lives were irrevocably fractured and their sprawling family torn apart with the public disclosure of the abuse allegations and the vitriolic disputes that followed.
Questlove’s “Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” winner of the Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, has landed with Searchlight Pictures and Disney General Entertainment’s BIPOC Creator initiative, led by Tara Duncan for theatrical release as well as exclusively streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and internationally on Star and Star+.