Category: Documentaries

Through HBOWatch has been dormant on documentary reviews for a long while (to resume soon) HBO has continued to present them from time to time. Here via an

Overview: 15: A QUINCEAÑERA STORY, is a collection of four short documentary films. Executive produced by renowned music executive Tommy Mottola and directed by Emmy winner Matthew O’Neill

Overview: Considered by many to be “the prince” of Italy, legendary industrialist and jet-setter Gianni Agnelli was a cultural icon who embodied strength, calm and prosperity in the

Overview: Highlighting innovators and entrepreneurs in communities from Georgetown, Texas to Buffalo, New York, HAPPENING: A CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION follows filmmaker Jamie Redford – grandson of a longtime

Overview: After struggling with mental illness for most of her life, New York artist Ruth Litoff committed suicide at age 42 in 2008 by overdosing on prescription pills.

Among the flurry of press releases that came our way recently was one about the upcoming documentaries so far slated for the first half of 2018. I say

Overview: Sometimes referred to as the country’s “most dangerous editor,” Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee was largely credited with taking down President Richard Nixon in 1974 after

Overview: Featuring extensive access to law enforcement, METH STORM tells the story of rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers whose addiction to ICE (a super strain of Meth) and

From an official HBO press release comes confirmation that long-running Programming Producer Shelia Nevins is leaving, but not really calling it ‘retirement’. Here it is in its entirety.

Overview: In the wake of the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody, Baltimore was a city on the edge. Peaceful protests and destructive riots erupted in

Overview: After 9/11, the U.S. military began to specially select, train and deploy multi-purpose K9s to serve side-by-side with the nation’s most elite Special Operations soldiers, finding and

Overview:  ROLLING STONE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE chronicles the last 50 years of American music, politics and popular culture through the perspective of a magazine that understood rock

Overview: One of the most famous filmmakers in the world, Steven Spielberg pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career more than ever before in the exclusive HBO

Overview: Underserved and ignored, undocumented immigrants with medical issues often end up in emergency rooms for care, a costly last resort in which patients can be charged thousands

Overview: In 1969, Lisanne Skyler’s parents bought an Andy Warhol “Brillo Box (3¢ Off)” sculpture for $1,000. An exact replica of a shipping carton for Brillo soap pads,