Documentaries

Elvis Presley was still in top form in 1970, and the new two-disc Blu-ray Digi-Book 'Elvis: That’s the Way It Is' captures it all.

An attack on Vietnam veterans – I suddenly felt like I was back at UCLA in 1971.

The filmmaker discusses shooting a feature documentary about Virunga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the last refuges of the magnificent and canny mountain gorillas.

Two of the documentaries at the Anthem Film Festival caused my brain to do a reboot.

This is not a boring history lecture. It is more like an historical drama.

Although Snowden garnered all the headlines, he is only one of a string of people who have revealed unconstitutional activities of our nation's spy agencies.

In 'Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,' Nicholas Wrathall creates an entertaining, well thought out and succinctly edited documentary. Wrathall cobbles together snippets from video archives, and interview clips and masterfully reveals what made Vidal who he is and how he engendered the vital purpose of his writing and sardonic, pithy commentary: to awaken us from our amnesia.

'Virunga' in its World Premiere is the most powerful, beautiful and stirring of the documentaries to come out of Tribeca Film Festival.

Silenced directed by James Spione is a documentary about three brave whistleblowers Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake and John Kiriakou who exposed governmental wrongdoing and paid a heavy price for bringing the truth to the light of day.

Marshall Curry's 'Point and Shoot' is an amazing chronicle that reveals the soul and spirit of documentarian Matt VanDyke.