“In North Korea, films are produced to serve as regime propaganda. While young people are aware of that, most of them don’t ...

Every year, I try to catch as many of the Academy Award documentaries as possible. And if there's a big doc that goes wild ...

Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.

Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, life has changed in Russia - everything from what Russians can say to what they can buy. Perhaps most of all, it's changed what they ...

This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...

Does it matter that a young Israeli filmmaker’s imaginative reconstruction of an abandoned Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto is not, strictly speaking, a documentary? Not if it sets a ...

Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935) is rightly famous (and notorious) as the most powerful propaganda film ever made: a documentary account of the Nazis’ massive, staged-for-the-camera ...

Roland Sejko's doc "A State Film," culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth. Watch ...

Does it matter that a young Israeli filmmaker’s imaginative reconstruction of an abandoned Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto is not, strictly speaking, a documentary? Not if it sets a ...