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Oprah Winfrey paid a fortune to Apple TV + chiefs to buy back the rights to a documentary about her life, Page Six can reveal. Apple announced with great fanfare Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald would be directing the documentary about the talk show host turned media mogul back in 2021. However, sources tell Page Six that Macdonald, who teamed up with Winfrey’s longtime producer Lisa Erspamer on the project, had clashed with the 70-year-old billionaire after he finished the film, and it’s been on hold ever since. “Kevin made the film, but Oprah didn’t like it and he refused to...

With the Middle East on the brink of war, Four Corners travels to Iran, Lebanon and Israel to investigate why a new regional war is looming. Four Corners gains rare access to Iran. There they reveal the fault lines of a repressive regime, and how its power extends through proxy groups in the region – Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Global Affairs Editor John Lyons travels to Hezbollah’s heartland in Lebanon, then to Israel, now facing war on multiple fronts. He speaks with key figures, politicians and military insiders to unravel the challenge of defusing this geopolitical timebomb. Linked index...

Posted in disrespect to censorship regimes. "SILENCED" delivers a powerful and timely message, serving as a poignant warning to all Americans. This film boldly exposes a disconcerting trend of weaponizing the government against truth-tellers. Journalist Tommy Robinson finds himself facing a two-year imprisonment for his internationally banned documentary, "Silenced." With unflinching courage, the film unearths the unholy alliance that exists between the government, media, and judiciary, unveiling their relentless efforts to control free speech and silence dissenting voices. Brace yourself for an eye-opening exploration of the lengths taken to suppress truth, as "SILENCED" challenges viewers to confront the erosion of...

There's nothing new in historians claiming that Abraham Lincoln was bisexual or gay. The "theory" took root in the 1970s during the gay awakening and has hung around on the fringes of historical scholarship ever since. Now, a serious documentary purports to "prove" the point using newly unearthed letters, documents, and photographs. Abraham Lincoln slept in the same bed with men — a common practice in 1840s America where a judicial circuit rider like Lincoln would have been forced to share a bed with other travelers while practicing law — and also wrote "passionately" about male friends and acquaintances. What...

The notoriously tumultuous making-of story behind Steven Spielberg‘s hit Jaws and the writing of its best-selling source material by Peter Benchley are getting the documentary treatment. Timed to the 50th anniversary of the 1975 film, Nat Geo has greenlit Jaws @ 50 (working title), a doc feature that will focus on both the Spielberg film and the writing of the horror best-seller by Benchley. A summer 2025 release is planned on National Geographic and for streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. Laurent Bouzereau is set to direct. The filmmaker just completed the nonfiction project Faye, centering on the career and legacy...

The group of studio musicians nicknamed the Wrecking Crew are largely responsible for the timeless musical arrangements on the Beach Boys’ most iconic records, but that doesn’t mean every Wrecking Crew alum approves of a 2024 Disney+ documentary about the Californian group. Legendary bassist Carol Kaye, for example, is decidedly not a fan. Kaye played bass on many of the Beach Boys’ most memorable albums, including ‘Pet Sounds,’ ‘Beach Boys Today,’ ‘Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!),’ and ‘Smile.’ And while one might assume the musician would be happy to have directors Frank Marshall and Thom Zimmy highlighting a musical era...

This is a 2 hour plus documentary on the Las Vegas shooting. Mindy Robinson has spent the last 7 years investigating, and has compiled some amazing video footage of the events that night, as well as interviews with people who were on the scene. Well worth the time to watch.

The true story of the events that played out on January 6, 2021 has never been fully told. Bits and pieces of it have shaken loose, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that fell on the floor. But never before have they been stitched together into a complete and accurate picture of that day’s events, so that people can understand what actually happened — as opposed to being told what didn’t. A new film, War on Truth, directed by Chris Burgard and produced by Nick Searcy, tells the full story — not just the parts of it that the political...

“That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees!” – Al Gore There is a chronic lack of civil discourse in Western society in that people have become far less civil and rarely engage in discourse. Driven by the proliferation of bias-confirming social media, people are herded into corners of the internet where views they agree with are amplified and dissent is swiftly marginalized, shouted down, or canceled...

Joe Biden is tearing America apart, and the media refuses to report on the impact of Biden’s treasonous policies. Join Ben Shapiro on the ground as he explores the real world consequences of one of the most destructive presidencies in American history.( Watch episodes)

February 24, 2024. Two years to the day since Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. For the first year, the world watched on as Russian forces grappled with an opponent they seemingly underestimated. The Ukrainians proved they would not give up their sovereignty without a fight. With aid from the West, Ukraine held the Russian forces, and gained back ground. On the second anniversary we look back at the last 12 months. It was the battles away from the fronts that would truly test the resolve of both sides. It was a year of fighting for aid and for...

Elon Musk shared a powerful yet terrifying documentary from Robby Starbuck on the dangers of the trans movement. Worth watching, especially for parents pic.twitter.com/k6gb2CMVqU — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2024 As Musk notes, parents should watch because the people in this movement rely on them not being involved, not paying attention, or worse, buying into the nonsense and allowing their children to become part of it. Scary stuff. I didn’t fully appreciate the depth of this war. But there is really a war on children. https://t.co/NafreeLob4 — BowTiedYanqui — The Sovereign Wolf (@BowTiedYanqui) February 18, 2024 As the parent...

Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century." This documentary from 2021 shows the path Russian foreign policy has followed under Putin. [This documentary was originally released in 2021. In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.] On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. Along with it came hope for the end of the Cold War, for independence and freedom for the former Soviet republics. But for many it also brought poverty and war. What remains of the dreams of that time? The...

On Friday, political commentator Robby Starbuck released “The War On Children,” a feature-length documentary about the Left’s attempt to “sexualize” and “indoctrinate” children via, among other things, social media. “There’s a war on our children right now. Far left activists will stop at nothing to indoctrinate them, sexualize them, guilt them and punish them until they submit to their woke religion,” Starbuck wrote in his announcement post on X. “For too long the dots haven’t been connected to expose their battle plan. This film exposes EVERYTHING.” The documentary features interviews with notable voices who have spoken out on the sexualization...

A PBS documentary released this week shows that the January 6 Committee used James Goldston, the former president of ABC News, to create a “miniseries” whose primary purpose was to create primetime propaganda that would reach the American public. The committee was derided by critics as a “show trial” because then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rejected the nominees of the minority party, for the first time in American history, and appointed anti-Trump Republicans in their place. Every single member of the committee opposed Donald Trump, and testimony was initially held behind closed doors, meaning witnesses were denied due...

Muckraker followed the entire mass migration route from Quito, Ecuador to the United States border. To our knowledge, no one has ever produced an entire documentary following this entire route.

‘Our leadership class is poisonous, power mad and dangerous,’ Carlson said. And this is not the case for ‘the people who showed up at the Capitol to protest the theft of their democratic election.’ (LifeSiteNews) – Tucker Carlson promoted a new independent documentary on the January 6, 2021 disturbance that he said “should be the most famous film in the United States” as it “shows you what actually happened at the [U.S.] Capitol” that day. For the last three years, the media and the political “uniparty” made up of Democrats and Republican leadership has worked diligently to project and maintain...

Hunter Biden’s lawyer and so-called “sugar brother,” Kevin Morris, has a film crew following the first son around for a documentary glamorizing his scandal-scarred client, including his press conference in December upon defying a subpoenaed congressional testimony. Cameras and spotlights for the film were reportedly on Hunter during the “press conference”, amid Morris’ ongoing initiative to produce a documentary about Hunter, as Breitbart News previously reported. Media members previously spotted the film crew trailing Hunter at several key public appearances at Soho’s Georges Berges gallery, where he tried to sell art to “anonymous” buyers. The purpose of the documentary is...

A new documentary that gives an inside look on the front lines of Ukraine’s fight against Russia is poised to be screened at the Capitol — just as lawmakers weigh providing more aid to the war-torn country. In an exclusive clip from Bernard-Henri Lévy’s “Glory to the Heroes,” the French filmmaker and activist is seen as he embeds with Ukraine’s forces on the frontline this past summer. Lévy is there as Ukraine’s military fire two French mortars linked to a drone. “We struck. The first rocket fell 10 meters from the target,” one of the troops is heard telling Lévy....

Documentarian Ford Fischer rediscovered some video from the riot on Jan. 6 that’s raising a lot of questions. It also puts a big crimp in the narrative of the Jan. 6 Committee. He has a picture and video of Capitol Police Lieutenant Tarik Johnson leading Oathkeepers into the building, then wearing a MAGA hat and yelling into a bullhorn, leading more of them out. *** Now, this has been reported before, albeit not widely. But Johnson said he appealed to Oathkeepers who were outside to help get some of his fellow officers out who were trapped in the building. Where...