They Shall Not Grow Old, a 2018 film, tells the story of British troops in the First World War. It uses documentary footage of the soldiers as they faced the frontline battle in Belgium. They Shall Not Grow Old is not so much facts about the battle as of the human...
The Volvo Ocean Race is a round the world ocean race that takes about 9 months to complete. It is held every three years. The race is sponsored and owned by Volvo, the Swedish automobile manufacturer. The race typically leaves from Europe in October, and in recent...
An 89-year old leading figure of the French New Wave, and an acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist co-direct this French art documentary/road movie. They travel in a photo van which has a photo booth and an oversized printer. Their mission is to make...
Age of Champions is a documentary that follows five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. Includes a 100 year-old tennis champion, 86 year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers who ignore the...
Khaled Khatib working on the Oscar-winning documentary short "The White Helmets." "The White Helmets" tells the story of a group of civilian volunteers in Aleppo who search for and rescue bombing victims. The White Helmets often claw out the rubble with their bare...
Get Ready To Produce Video For The NY Times You can produce video for the NY Times. If you can point to a short doc or samples on the web and can pitch an idea, you could produce an OP-Doc for the NY Times. Op-Doc is short for opinionated documentaries. They are...
If you are transferring home movies (either film or video) as a commercial service, you should know about the non-profit Center For Home Movies . They sponsor Home Movie Day which will be on October 17, 2015. The site also will show you some possibilities you may not...
Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to President Kennedy in 1962 Photo: REX Is the Happy Birthday Song public domain? That's what a documentary film company claims in their lawsuit against Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. Law professor Robert Brauneis...
Nearly every smart phone today produces broadcast quality HD video. Smart phones used to be a last resort for news stories. Today they are used routinely. Consider the story below. It was shot entirely on an iPhone 5s at full HD 1080p. This version was downconverted...
Shaky cam, also called queasy cam, is a cinematic technique used to give a scene an ENG (electronic news-gathering) or documentary look to persuade viewers that the subject or scene being filmed was happening live without rehearsal or any artifice. It is often used in...
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