Former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell shares publicly, for the first time, the story of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach in the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. Peck was convicted in 2004 for his crimes against Drake and ordered to register as a sex offender.
Apple unveiled the official trailer for “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces,” a new documentary on actor Steve Martin, starring Martin, along with Finn Wittrock, Martin Short, Tina Fey, Jerry Seinfeld, Eric Idle, Diane Keaton and Selena Gomez.
Filmmaker David Redmon along with Ashley Sabin set out to find the legendary lost video collection of 55,000 movies from the iconic New York City video store named Kim’s Video.
Filmmakers Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb debuted the official trailer for the Reading Rainbow documentary “Butterfly in the Sky,” the feature film on the beloved PBS Children’s series.
Abramorama revealed the official trailer for Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande, the music documentary on the 70s British funk band Cymande. Comprised of Black British musicians who all came to the U.K. from the Caribbean as children, the band released albums in the early 1970s, which were embraced in the U.S., but they faced prejudice in U.K. and were largely ignored, and eventually disbanded.
Hulu revealed the official trailer for “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told” the documentary on the popular boisterous street party in the 80s and 90s that drew thousands of mainly HBCU students to Atlanta.
On the eve of the world premiere at SXSW film festival, the first trailer debuted for Resynator, the documentary on Don Tavel, an inventor of a synthesizer in the 1970s ,
Directed by Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb, the feature documentary Butterfly in the Sky which tells the story of the beloved PBS Children’s series and its iconic host LeVar Burton revealed the theatrical and digital release dates.
HBO unveiled the official trailer for The Lionheart, the documentary on Indianapolis 500 champion Dan Wheldon, nicknamed “The Lionheart” who died in a horrific crash in 2011, and his family as they cope, ten years later.
Picturehouse debuted the official red-band trailer for Carol Doda Topless at The Condor, the documentary set in San Francisco starting in 1964 when Carol Doda became the first dancer in the nation to perform topless.
The documentary film The Lie: The Murder of Grace Millane examines the headline-grabbing murder of 21-year-old British tourist, Grace Millane, while on a two-week solo holiday in Auckland, New Zealand in 2018.
Filmmaker Sara Nodjoumi and her husband Till Schauder dive into the mystery surrounding the disappearance of more than 100 “treasonous” paintings by Sara’s father, seminal Iranian modern artist Nickzad “Nicky” Nodjoumi in the political thriller and verité portrait documentary A Revolution on Canvas.