Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What’s the best documentary series you’ve seen on TV? Opening this up to past series, current ones, and those that you may have seen screeners for that are coming up soon.
Liz Shannon Miller (@lizlet), IndieWire
While we debate whether or not it technically counts as a TV show (certainly that Oscar it won would suggest otherwise), “O.J.: Made in America” was without question a seminal work, and one which owed a lot to its episodic structure while proving to be an addictive binge. Documentaries aren’t exactly my favorite genre, but “Made in America” was as gripping as any scripted series — and we have definitive proof of this,...
This week’s question: What’s the best documentary series you’ve seen on TV? Opening this up to past series, current ones, and those that you may have seen screeners for that are coming up soon.
Liz Shannon Miller (@lizlet), IndieWire
While we debate whether or not it technically counts as a TV show (certainly that Oscar it won would suggest otherwise), “O.J.: Made in America” was without question a seminal work, and one which owed a lot to its episodic structure while proving to be an addictive binge. Documentaries aren’t exactly my favorite genre, but “Made in America” was as gripping as any scripted series — and we have definitive proof of this,...
- 9/19/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
It's been nearly 30 years since Ncaa basketball superstar Len Bias died from a cocaine overdose ... just two days after he was selected as the #2 overall pick in the NBA Draft. Now, with Lamar Odom fighting for his life in a Vegas hospital, Len's mother, Dr. Lonise Bias, says people must understand that drug addiction is a disease -- and it needs to be treated before it's too late. Dr. Bias issued a statement to TMZ...
- 10/19/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
March is about to get mad.
Beginning tonight, sports fans (and a lot of non-sports fans) will spend most waking hours pouring over brackets and RPIs, trying to figure out who will be the next Davidson or Lehigh, and watching more TruTV over 3 weeks than they will rest of the year combined.
Espn is smartly capitalizing on the momentum of March Madness by debuting its latest 30 for 30 documentary on Sunday at 9 p.m. Est, following its annual Bracketology special. For the uninitiated, the 30 for 30 docs series began in late 2009. Its mission: shine a light on incredible, real-life sports stories that might not have received the coverage they deserved (or have faded with time for whatever reason). Requiem for the Big East—Sunday’s special—is the 60th feature-length 30 for 30 documentary. It promises to be a lovely, bittersweet ode to a brand of college basketball lost to realignment and the changing...
Beginning tonight, sports fans (and a lot of non-sports fans) will spend most waking hours pouring over brackets and RPIs, trying to figure out who will be the next Davidson or Lehigh, and watching more TruTV over 3 weeks than they will rest of the year combined.
Espn is smartly capitalizing on the momentum of March Madness by debuting its latest 30 for 30 documentary on Sunday at 9 p.m. Est, following its annual Bracketology special. For the uninitiated, the 30 for 30 docs series began in late 2009. Its mission: shine a light on incredible, real-life sports stories that might not have received the coverage they deserved (or have faded with time for whatever reason). Requiem for the Big East—Sunday’s special—is the 60th feature-length 30 for 30 documentary. It promises to be a lovely, bittersweet ode to a brand of college basketball lost to realignment and the changing...
- 3/16/2014
- by John Gilpatrick
- SoundOnSight
By the time its final episode premieres on December 11, "30 for 30" will have aired thirty films on the last thirty years of sports. Nine were about football, six about baseball, five about basketball, two about boxing, two about running, and one each about BMX, hockey, Nascar, rugby, soccer, and tennis. The series, designed to celebrate Espn's thirtieth anniversary, featured the work of thirty different directors, but through its entire range of filmmakers and topics, one theme dominated the year of "30 for 30": money's insidious effect on the purity of sports.
Consider its very first episode, "King's Ransom," about the trade of Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. The Oilers' motivation? Money. Or "The Two Escobars," about the destructive impact of drug money on the Columbian national soccer. The pursuit of money was the obvious subject of some of the films, like "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the Usfl?...
Consider its very first episode, "King's Ransom," about the trade of Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. The Oilers' motivation? Money. Or "The Two Escobars," about the destructive impact of drug money on the Columbian national soccer. The pursuit of money was the obvious subject of some of the films, like "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the Usfl?...
- 11/19/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Let me illustrate for you just how cool I am.
While channel surfing last week I stumbled upon a documentary about the genesis of Fantasy (Rotisserie) Baseball. I was riveted, like I had just caught a glimpse of the face of God. I dropped everything I was doing (not really very much) and sat transfixed until the very end of the movie. It was entirely awesome. Funny and ironic, the movie managed to maintain an intelligence and sincerity in spite of the completely dorky subject.
I found out much later that the movie was called "Silly Little Game," but at the time, the menu on my TV listed it simply as Espn Films, and so I decided at that moment that I absolutely loved Espn Films and would watch whatever they had to offer. For the next couple of weeks I tuned in whenever possible and watched about a half dozen different sports documentaries.
While channel surfing last week I stumbled upon a documentary about the genesis of Fantasy (Rotisserie) Baseball. I was riveted, like I had just caught a glimpse of the face of God. I dropped everything I was doing (not really very much) and sat transfixed until the very end of the movie. It was entirely awesome. Funny and ironic, the movie managed to maintain an intelligence and sincerity in spite of the completely dorky subject.
I found out much later that the movie was called "Silly Little Game," but at the time, the menu on my TV listed it simply as Espn Films, and so I decided at that moment that I absolutely loved Espn Films and would watch whatever they had to offer. For the next couple of weeks I tuned in whenever possible and watched about a half dozen different sports documentaries.
- 6/24/2010
- by Michael Murray
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