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The movie examines how these widows, who were forced by their family to give up their belongings, ended up being social outcasts. The Forgotten Woman seeks to raise awareness of the various and pervasive challenges that still surround women's pursuit of economic independence in the 21st century in order to achieve a semblance of self-respect ...
The New York Times felt that "DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA is clear about its message: The system has failed, and the American dream has died.". [11] The film went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature, the first Oscar win for the cable broadcast industry. [12] The film's negative has been preserved in the Academy Film Archive ...
Duhozanye: A Rwandan Village of Widows is a feature Norwegian documentary film for television from 2011 by director Karoline Frogner. [1]Norway's previous minister of justice, Knut Storberget, referred to Duhozanye in his latest book: "a film about a community of widows in Rwanda, an insightful and intense depiction of these widows."
Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles.The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.
The film follows human impact of the Texas abortion case. ... to participate in a documentary. The resulting film, ... titled "The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America," in Hart ...
Bedlam is a 2019 American feature-length documentary directed, produced, and written by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg.Produced, and written by Peter Miller, co-produced by Joan Churchill and Alan Barker, edited by Jim Cricchi, with additional editing by James Holland, it immerses us in the national crisis surrounding care of people with serious mental illness through intimate stories of patients ...
The Wall Street Journal called the film "hair-raising" and noted that it was one of the rare documentaries to screen at Cannes. [18] Jason Solomons, writing for The Observer, said the film was one of "five films to watch" at Cannes. [15] The Guardian described the documentary as "unmissable" and "the best horror film of all time". [19]
Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration is a 2006 documentary film, written, produced and directed by Kevin Knoblock. [1] The film tells the stories of five people whose lives have been affected by illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border.