As studios have largely sidestepped the genre, a distributor step is expected to step in this month with Docudrama Digital Channel, a free ad-supported service.
Mr. Smith’s Scenes column in The Village Voice was the message board of the hippie counterculture in the 1960s.
The television and digital movie channel Epix plans to surround the documentary about the candid director with several of his works.
With the departure of Piers Morgan, who followed Larry King, CNN won’t install a new host but will instead show a variety of documentaries.
SeaWorld Entertainment has come under fire after a documentary criticized its practice of holding whales in captivity. Now, the company is firing back.
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Dominating the feature film nominations were documentaries about issues and politics.
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Though CNN and NBC both scrapped plans to produce projects about Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Rodham,” a feature film about Mrs. Clinton’s years as a young lawyer, is moving ahead.
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Both sides of the political aisle registered objections to the projects, which would have explored the life of the former first lady and potential 2016 presidential candidate.
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The Weinstein Company said that it planned to release a “special edition” of the film about J.D. Salinger with the additions. Also, the company plans a dramatic film based on the writer’s life.
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Ms. Lacy, the creator and executive producer of “American Masters,” has signed a multiyear deal to produce documentaries for the pay cable channel.
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“Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out,” a 2012 documentary about Mr. Polanski’s effort to avoid extradition to the United States to face a sexual assault charge, will have its debut on Showtime on Sept. 27.
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The musical biography film has faltered in recent years, but that did not stop John Ridley from making “All Is by My Side,” about a pivotal juncture in the career of Jimi Hendrix.
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Bloomberg Businessweek is releasing a documentary, “Hank: Five Years From the Brink,” centered on the anniversary of the financial crisis and the Treasury secretary’s role in trying to contain it.
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Citing a lack of editorial control, ESPN ended its collaboration with the public affairs series “Frontline” on a two-part documentary set to run in October.
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A foundation created by three Taiwanese with connections to the film industry provides financing and technical help to those making documentaries about today’s China.
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The decision by Fox Television Studios not to be involved in producing a hotly debated mini-series for NBC was a financial decision, one executive said, and not a political one.
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A new unit called Red Border Films will produce one 10-minute film a month, with longer projects planned twice a year.
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Two days earlier, NBC said it would make a four-hour mini-series on Ms. Clinton
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SeaWorld Entertainment began an aggressive public pushback against the new documentary “Blackfish,” which makes the case that orca whales in captivity suffer physical and mental distress.
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Davis Guggenheim, the documentary-maker behind “Waiting for Superman” and “An Inconvenient Truth,” is making a film about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education advocate.
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