Documentaries

LONDON -- You won’t see Tom Hanks on one of those space tourism flights that whisk celebrities and millionaires on a suborbital jaunt for a few hours. He says it wouldn’t be enough time out of this world.“I don’t need to go up and down,”…

MARRAKECH, Morocco -- Thirty years ago, Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass left her home to pursue her dreams of being in the movies, joining generations of women in her family who were shaped by exile and “learned to leave everything and start…

NEW YORK -- The visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” about Russia's early assault on the Ukrainian city, will soon reach its widest audience yet.The 94-minute film, a joint production by The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline," has…

The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex, orgasms and masturbation, drawn from anonymous survey responses from about 3,000 women across the U.S., challenged male assumptions…

Formula One fanatics will get more behind-the-scenes access to the global motorsports series through a new CNBC documentary that explores the business aspects of the highest form of racing in the worldByJENNA FRYER AP auto racing…

When filmmaker Emma Fidel began work on “Queen of New York” more than three years ago, she envisioned the documentary as the perfect melding of two of her passions — politics and drag performance — that would also “instill a sense of…

The drink had all the hallmarks of a beverage sensation. Striking design, bold font, and the punchy name Release. But inside, each bottle was filled with urine allegedly discarded by Amazon delivery drivers and collected from plastic…

TORONTO -- The filmmaker Raoul Peck was sitting in a Toronto hotel lobby talking to a reporter when Barry Jenkins beelined over to embrace him.The two know each other, though it had been years since they saw one another. They also share a…

Turkey’s oldest film festival has been canceled amid controversy surrounding a politically sensitive documentary about the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt.Antalya Mayor Muhittin Bocek announced the cancellation of the city's Golden Orange…

The Turkish government says it has withdrawn its support for the country’s oldest film festival after organizers reversed a decision to exclude a politically sensitive documentaryByANDREW WILKS Associated PressSeptember 28, 2023, 7:50…