[vimeo url="https://vimeo.com/88027935" width="640" height="360"] Private Violence is a documentary film on the intricacies of a taboo subject: domestic violence. It's easy to look away, or to ignore the...

Happy Valley treads on dangerous ground. In late 2011, Jerry Sandusky, longtime assistant coach for the Penn State football team, was charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse. Not long after, it was uncovered...

E-team is not only the best film I’ve seen at True/False this year, but perhaps one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. This is a weighty statement, but what the documentary manages to accomplish...

The Notorious Mr. Bout, directed by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin, revolves around the man commonly known as the "Merchant of Death:" Viktor Bout. However, unlike the common narrative surrounding Bout...

I’ve never understood the concept of masquerade balls. That stretch of a person’s face — from the fan of wrinkles framing one eye to the fan of wrinkles framing the other — is, to me, their most...

It is usually rare to see documentaries in major film festivals like Cannes or Venice. Moviegoers prefer to think of documentaries as a genre that gives some educational insight, while narrative films...

At the beginning of Particle Fever, the lights dimmed and the screen lit up to a series of brightly colored, spiraling dots and lines I could only imagine represented particles. From these first images...

In a country of more than 300 million people, it's easy to go unnoticed. Except if  you're the President. Or ... you look like him. This is the premise of Bronx Obama, which ran tonight in the first full...

On April 30 at 6 p.m. a free screening of the Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, 5 Broken Cameras, will take place at Ellis Auditorium at the University of Missouri - Columbia. There...

Dirty Wars, directed by Richard Rowley, follows the intricate story of war journalist Jeremy Scahill through his investigation into an unnecessary U.S. military raid on an innocent civilian household...

The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear by Tinatin Gurchiani. Just hearing the name of the film piqued my interest. I wanted to see what it was about, who was in it, if there really was a machine...

Feature films are, if nothing else, purposeful. Unnecessary scenes are edited out, plopped on an extras disc and sold in special editions of the DVD release. Superfluous details don’t make the cut,...