\”Jesus Camp,\” a documentary about a summer program at which evangelical children are taught to \”take back America for Christ.\”
Using little-known historical footage, the film touches Hitler\’s school days, failed artist\’s career in Vienna, World War I combat, unsuccessful 1923 putsch, imprisonment and early leadership of the Nazi Party to his better-known roles as initiator of World War II, murderer of millions, and defeated warlord.
The Rosenbergs were executed for spying for the Soviet Union in June 1953. Their personal story was told 51 years later by their granddaughter, Ivy Meeropol, in the powerful 2004 documentary, \”Heir to an Execution.\”
The film \”City of God\” shed light on a long-neglected subject, the Third World conditions and inescapable warfare existing in Rio de Janeiro\’s slums. Now comes \”Favela Rising,\” a documentary that not only limns the tragedy of the favelas, the Brazilian ghettoes, but also tells the inspirational tale of Anderson Sá, a black Messiah figure who founds a reggae music club that offers a nonviolent alternative to their rampant drug and gang activity.
Kodlawsky said her goal was to tell Thiranagama\’s story vividly; in a way, it reminded her of those late-night discussions over cigarettes and coffee. Her mother\’s friends often spoke of how Kodlawsky\’s mother risked death to smuggle food to others at Bergen-Belsen.
Monika Hertwig was 1 year old when her father Amon Goeth, sadistic SS commandant of the Plaszow forced-labor and concentration camp, was hanged as a war criminal in 1946. Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig was picked among the prisoners by Goeth as his maid and was brutalized for two years. Now, more than 60 years later, the two women are the unlikely protagonists of the feature documentary \”Inheritance: A Legacy of Hatred and the Journey to Change It.\”
Filmmakers are currently wrestling with four different projects to document or dramatize the story of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter beheaded by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in early 2002, leaving behind a pregnant wife.
Gehry\’s creative solution — his psychoanalytic victory — was to embrace the delight of free-form design, while making sure that his buildings met the needs of his clients. His freedom in designing what appear to be purely sculptural objects that subsequently win rapturous praise must make him the envy of all architects who secretly wish they could find such willing clients.
While a student at Columbia School of Journalism, Rachel Boynton saw a film about the history of 20th century nonviolent conflict that included a segment on how American consultants had gone to Chile in 1990 to produce TV ads for a successful campaign to end Gen. Augusto Pinochet\’s long autocratic presidency.
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