"I fell in love with filmmaking later in life. I grew up watching narrative features, foreign films, and music videos like many in my generation. It wasn’t until I first saw...

Feelings of superiority and gawking are both staples of unscripted TV, and Bravo has successfully wedded them in “Extreme Guide to Parenting.” Basically, the series brings the voyeurism of “Hoarders”...

In Westchester, N.Y., Shira Adler's 10-year-old son Yonah screams, "I f**king hate you!" She responds calmly by spritzing his "aura" with one of her specialty aromatherapy sprays, and then begins...

As the United States wrestles with a demographic shift set in motion by the fast-growing Latino population, a small North Carolina town could offer the country a glimpse of what...

A revealing new documentary, "To Light a Candle", made by Iran's award winning filmmaker and journalist Maziar Bahari is a turning point in addressing the circumstance of Baha'is in Iran. It unveils decades...

Having had the good fortune to attend a high school with a vital arts program, I am a sucker for documentaries about the transformative power of arts and humanities education....

“Glee” without the contrivance, the tokenism or the choreographed karaoke: that’s one way of looking at “Mariachi High,” which leads off the PBS Arts summer documentary series on Friday night. Any suspicion that the...

“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” covers the events in about a year of her life. If the filmmakers didn't have total access, I don't want to see what they...