DOC NYC, America’s largest festival for documentary films, returns to New York City and streaming for the 17th year, with screenings in Manhattan beginning Wednesday through Nov. 19, and continuing online through Nov. 29. The festival includes more than 115 feature-length documentaries — many making their world, U.S. or New York City premieres — as…
Michael Mann, a filmmaker known for the classic crime drama “Heat,” was injured at a gun range in Los Angeles on Saturday, his representative told CBS News. The representative said on Sunday that Mann had received treatment at a hospital for “a superficial injury” and was being released. “On Saturday, at a gun range, a…
Harper We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Returning to movie screens after his service in World War II, actor Jimmy Stewart was nervous about appearing in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” – a film now acknowledged as one of his very best. In his biography of the…
Linda Mason, a trailblazing journalist who spent 47 years with CBS News, has died at the age of 84. She died peacefully Wednesday night surrounded by family, according to a statement from CBS News. After starting as a radio desk assistant in 1966, she went on to become the first female producer of the “CBS…
Okinawa proved to be the last and costliest battle of World War II in the Pacific – and it’s a name director Peter Berg wants us all to remember. His new movie, “The Mosquito Bowl,” captures that battle. “It is a film that I hope asks us all to look at what we ask of…
There he was, in February 2017, on the cover of Time Magazine: Steve Bannon, chief White House strategist. They called him “The Great Manipulator.” He threatened at times to overshadow the president himself – not the best career move – and for a while he visibly fell out of favor. Steven Bannon, dubbed “The Great…
