Film

The East(ern) and the Western

By David N. Meyer

Years ago author V.S Naipaul was sitting roadside at some desolate pass on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border and this tribal kid crested the trail.

Docs In Sight

Making a Piece of Political History Last

By Williams Cole

That Eyes on the Prize, the classic series on the civil rights struggle, has become a focal point for the politicization of copyright restriction issues and open access shows how documentaries are being increasingly valued as part of an essential historical record.

Images from Eyes on the Prize. Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party and presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party speaking at the Woods-Brown Outdoor Theatre, American University. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Same Kind of Dick

By Williams Cole

Bolivian filmmaker Rodrigo Bellott throws us into a cross-cultural pantheon of a type of person most of us are familiar with: the Dick.

Photo courtesy of Cinemavault.

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