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Commentary: The Spectacle of Reality

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt reflects on reality TV and its early iterations: documentaries. 

Cracking the Fashion Code at “Vogue”

Arts, Culture & Media
The documentary, Machines, takes the audience into a textile millin Sachin, India. It is one of film critic Matt Holzman's picks for foreign documentaries to see this summer.

Four international documentaries to see before the summer ends

Arts
"Sunshine Superman" tells the story of Carl Boenish and his team of filmmaker-jumpers, including his wife, Jean Boenish.

A new documentary chronicles the inventor of BASE jumping

Sports
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