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The trailer for Alex Holder’s documentary about the Trump family is out.The documentary, titled Unprecedented, is a three-part series about former US President Donald Trump and his children. In the two-minute trailer, the former president, along with his adult children Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, sit for interviews with Holder.The trailer also features footage from the Trump presidential campaign trail, including moments where Ivanka calls her father “the people’s president”.Unprecedented focuses on the…

The viral videos all had the same format: a black student sits at a nondescript table, nervously hovering over a laptop, surrounded by a phalanx of mostly black students, phone cameras at the ready to capture the moment. When the students from TM Landry, an unorthodox private high school in rural Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, see the acceptance emails – to Harvard, Dartmouth, Wellesley and other top-tier universities not usually open to working-class, minority students – they erupt into cheers, a euphoric mass grasping at the…

The decorated former US special forces officer James “Bo” Gritz, now 79, is a certain kind of lairy, gung-ho publicity addict – like Oliver North or G Gordon Liddy. Documentary-maker Andrea Luka Zimmerman gives a pretty alarming account of his life, and leaves it to us to notice his relation to the present White House incumbent. Her film is a bit shapeless and unsignposted, sometimes more like a rough cut than a finished movie, a patchwork of original interview material and archive footage. But it’s a good story.After…

“I can’t think of any other song with a trajectory of anything like what happened with Hallelujah,” said the author Alan Light of Leonard Cohen’s ubiquitous magnum opus. “When you think of universal global anthems like Imagine or Bridge Over Troubled Water, they were immediate hits. But Hallelujah was first rejected by the record company, and then completely ignored when it came out.”So goes the legend of Cohen’s hallmark track which has captivated generations of listeners with a mystique and weight that set it apart in…

Documentary filmmaker Alex Holder’s life changed dramatically — and practically overnight — when news broke on June 21 that the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 had subpoenaed footage Holder shot of former President Donald Trump and those close to him. In the time since those reports surfaced, the British filmmaker — who was a producer on the 2016 Tribeca film Keep Quiet, but who describes himself as a previously “pretty unknown quantity” — has revealed that for nearly two years he has been working…

NASA’s The Color of Space documentary captures the personal stories of seven current and former Black astronauts, each selected to become part of NASA’s astronaut corps and train for space missions.Members of the public are invited to watch The Color of Space, an inspirational documentary by <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…

It was less than four hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., when The Hollywood Reporter talked to the directors of underground abortion network documentary The Janes, but to one of the filmmakers, Emma Pildes, that stretch felt like “a lifetime.” “It just feels like a nightmare but also this weird dream state because I don’t think we’re surprised,” Pildes told THR by phone on Friday. “We’d been so wrapped up in the topic for so long…

The film exposes the entire system that was supposed to protect and preserve one of the most ancient and beautiful monuments (replete with priceless artifacts) of the world A still from the film Notre-Dame on FireCast: Samuel Labarthe, Jean-Paul Bordes, Mickaël ChirinianDirector: Jean-Jacques AnnaudRating: 4/5‘Notre Dame is Burning’ is a documentary style disaster movie that has you its grip all through. The very real incident,…

It’s all below In case you missed it, there’s a six-episode Xbox documentary out now that deals with the history of the console line from the germination of the idea of the brand, through the success of Halo, into the red ring of death, to now. It’s called “Power On: The Story of Xbox,” and it’s interesting in the sense that it’s officially sanctioned (thus provided full access to current and former Xbox team members and archive footage), but also doesn’t hold back. Big dramatic highlights of the Power On Xbox…

Only a genius of longform plotting could have planned the sting in the tail of the royal 2022. In the rolling melodrama of the British monarchy, the platinum jubilee was always slated for this year, gratitude splashed across the Daily Express. But now the mood will darken. So it is that 70 years of the Queen segues directly into 25 since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In Macbeth, the ghost haunted the feast. Here she returns with the pink gin hangovers barely faded. On with the show.A film will mark the occasion:…