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“The B-Side” of Errol Morris

Errol Morris talks about “The B-Side” and Donald Trump’s favorite movie.  

“The B-Side” of Errol Morris

George Carlin's "Class Clown"

George Carlin's "Class Clown"

American Icons: Shaft

American Icons: Shaft
a violin.

The art and science of composing movie scores

The art and science of composing movie scores
documentary

Filipina beauty queens' fight for trans rights is focus of new series looking at a 'woman's place'

Filipina beauty queens' fight for trans rights is focus of new series looking at a 'woman's place'
Jose and Oscar

Their parents work the farms as migrant labor. What are their kids' lives like?

"East of Salinas" profiles Sherwood Elementary School in Salinas Valley, California, where 90 percent of students are the children of migrant farmworkers.

Their parents work the farms as migrant labor. What are their kids' lives like?

When Forgery Isn’t a Crime

One of the world’s most prolific art forgers got caught. But he’ll never be prosecuted, because he donated all his fakes. 

When Forgery Isn’t a Crime

Where Killers Are Heroes

“We killed happily,” a former Indonesian death-squad leader says as he re-enacts a murder in the astonishing documentary "The Act of Killing."

Where Killers Are Heroes

Five Things You Had To See Online This Week

The Wolfpack brothers do insanely good impressions of Batman and Joker to win the internet this week. Plus: little girl does a mean Aretha Franklin and robots fall down a lot. 

Five Things You Had To See Online This Week
A break dancer strikes a pose in the streets of Sanaa, Yemen, in a scene from the new documentary, "Shake the Dust."

Rap legend Nas hunts for hip-hop culture across the globe

A new documentary called "Shake The Dust" explores break-dancing culture from Yemen to Colombia, and its director says the grassroots hip-hip scenes he found around the world may be truer to the genre's New York roots than anything else around.

Rap legend Nas hunts for hip-hop culture across the globe

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Fifty Shades of Hutt, a "Total Eclipse of the Heart" explainer, and classical music's chest-baring heartthrob win the internet this week.

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Onyeabor Mystery Persists in New Documentary

William Onyeabor is one of the most unique Nigerian performers of the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s and also, very likely, the most mysterious. While we covered Onyeabor in our exploration of synthesizers in Africa, the new documentary Fantastic Man, directed by ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/16968/onyeabor-mystery-persists-in-new-documentary/"> Read more &#187;</a>

Onyeabor Mystery Persists in New Documentary
The World

A Forgotten Form of Street Art

A Forgotten Form of Street Art

The Aristocrats

The Aristocrats