Film Category: Thematic
Gary Hawkins’s beautiful Rough South series interweaves documentary footage with fictional adaptations of authors’ work, establishing an innovative approach to the documentary genre. After his…
MORE ›Beautifully scripted by Horton Foote, Tomorrow tells a story of love, loss, generosity and perseverance. In Mississippi, a helpful, quiet farmer (Duvall) befriends a pregnant…
MORE ›Born in 1908, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Wright lived in a world where Jim Crow was more than a proper noun; it was…
MORE ›“Making a documentary,” John Huston says, “wasn’t really any different than making any other film except that the material reveals itself, tells its own story.”…
MORE ›Kosovo 1998. Dan Reed captures the essence of war and in doing so exposes the fragility of civilization. In a beautiful land of rolling hills…
MORE ›Examining the effects of war and terrorism on the children of Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, this story is told by the children. These…
MORE ›Originally produced for television, this film was banned from TV broadcast. Later released theatrically by the BFI, this incredible story visualizes what could happen immediately…
MORE ›In his own uniquely Southern voice, Reynolds Price tells of his heritage, the people and places that influenced his life and made him who he…
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