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The Document

KCRW

The Document is KCRW's new kind of mashup of documentaries and radio - telling addictive, real life, right now stories.

Location:

United States

Networks:

KCRW

Description:

The Document is KCRW's new kind of mashup of documentaries and radio - telling addictive, real life, right now stories.

Language:

English


Episodes
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“Circus of Books” - The Jewish Factor

7/15/2019
Making a film with mom, dad, and LA’s most beloved gay porn store.

Duration:00:26:11

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Preschool Panic

4/17/2019
Pulling back the dark veil of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.

Duration:00:34:42

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Underground

3/27/2019
Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson brings us the story of the made-in-secret documentary “Underground.” How did director Emile de Antonio manage to find - and film - the wanted fugitives of the leftist Weather Underground?

Duration:00:34:06

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A Hard Truth

3/8/2019
The story of two films - a narrative and a documentary - made inside a fully functioning, maximum-security prison.

Duration:00:33:42

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Lamerica

1/30/2019
An Italian filmmaker drives across the country looking for his vision of America.

Duration:00:19:01

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The Yellow Laugh

12/12/2018
A notorious dictator demands a recut of the documentary about him – or else.

Duration:00:21:45

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Chef Flynn

11/14/2018
What happens when a prodigy chef realizes his dream, at 19?

Duration:00:17:26

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Free Solo

10/3/2018
Will the cameras kill Alex Honnold on his free solo climb of El Cap?

Duration:00:22:28

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Return to Rockford

8/21/2018
A filmmaker steps out from behind the camera to interview his mom about his family’s excruciating past.

Duration:00:22:18

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Dark Money

7/18/2018
The toxic pit that’s the country’s largest Superfund site is a painful reminder of the corruption of Montana’s Copper Kings...and a warning of what corporate spending can still do to democracy today.

Duration:00:14:24

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Love Means Zero

6/20/2018
A Grand Slam of an interview with tennis coaching legend Nick Bollettieri. [Explicit Content]

Duration:00:20:49

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Cuba and the Cameraman...and his Daughter

3/21/2018
The perks and perils of growing up in the family business, traveling the world and making documentary films.

Duration:00:21:30

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Music and Meaning

3/7/2018
A filmmaker and composer pull back the curtain on how they use music to shape the way we experience documentaries.

Duration:00:19:58

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Bad is Good

2/21/2018
A story about a Neil Simon play gone bad - and the documentary that was going to make everything better. [Explicit language]

Duration:00:31:53

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Committed

2/7/2018
Brian Watts went to prison when he was 18. When he got out on parole, he was 42, and on a mission to find love - for the very first time.

Duration:00:29:48

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Love and Science

1/17/2018
The world's top student scientists converge at the Olympics of science fairs.

Duration:00:20:42

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Ministry of Presence

11/8/2017
How a minister who made the execution chamber his office changed his mind about the death penalty.

Duration:00:29:08

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A Spark in His Eye

10/25/2017
Brimstone and Glory is a fiery trip into a Mexican city's glorious orgy of fireworks.

Duration:00:17:37

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The Hands of Persons Unknown

10/11/2017
Looking at one of America's greatest shames. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]

Duration:00:17:28

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The Lost Tapes

9/13/2017
What could documentaries about Princess Diana and the 1992 Los Angeles riots possibly have in common?

Duration:00:20:02