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The Fog of Truth: Close-Up on Documentaries


Apr 25, 2018

There seems to be no shortage of good doc series available to stream online. We take a look at the evolution of this format through early PBS observational series to today. We also discuss Dirty Money and Bart interviews the creators of Wild Wild Country.

 

Group Review Documentary:

DIRTY MONEY (2018) / USA (Creator: Alex Gibney)

Available on Netflix

 

Film Featured in Interview Portion:

WILD WILD COUNTRY (2018) /USA (Creators: Chapman Way & Maclain Way)

Available on Netflix   

 

Other Films/Articles/Books Mentioned:

Up Series / 1964 - Present (TV Series)

An American Family / 1973 (TV Series)

Airport / 1996 - 2008 (TV Series)

The Civil War / 1990 (TV Series / Director/Creator: Ken Burns)

The Jinx / 2015 (TV Series / Director: Andrew Jarecki)

Making a Murderer / 2015 (TV Series / Directors:  Moira Demos & Laura Ricciardi)

Wormwood / 2017 (TV Series / Director: Errol Morris)

The Staircase / 2004 (TV Series)

American Vandal / 2017 (TV Series / Creators: Tony Yacenda, Dan Perrault)

The Keepers / 2017  (TV Series / Director: Ryan White)

Planet Earth / 2006 (TV Series / Director: Alastair Fothergill)

American Masters Series / 1986 - Present (TV Series / Creator: Susan Lacy)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson / 2004  (TV Series / Director: Ken Burns)

Taxi to the Dark Side / 2008 (Director: Alex Gibney)

The Bandit / 2016 (Director: Jesse Moss)

Mommy Dead and Dearest / 2017 (Director: Erin Lee Carr)

Solitary / 2016 (Director: Kristi Jacobson)

Amanda Knox / 2016 (Directors: Rod Blackhurst, Brian McGinn)

Before the Flood / 2016 (Director: Fisher Stevens)

The Battered Bastards of Baseball / 2014 (Director: Chapman Way & Maclain Way)

Source Family / 2012 (Directors: Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos)

My Fathers, My Mother and Me / 2013 (Director: Paul-Julien Robert)

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple / 2006 (Director: Stanley Nelson Jr.)

Millhouse / 1971 (Director: Emile de Antonio)

Point of Order / 1964 (Director: Emile de Antonio)

In the Year of the Pig / 1969 (Director: Emile de Antonio)

Underground / 2015 (Directors: Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler)

Rush to Judgement / 1967 (Director: Emile de Antonio)

 

Timestamps:

02:49 - Intro discussion of Documentaries Series

12:53 - Group Review of DIRTY MONEY

29:47 - Bart Weiss interviews Chapman Way & Maclain Way of WILD WILD COUNTRY

46:29 -  Doc Talk

 

Website/Email:

www.fogoftruth.com

disinfo@fogoftruth.com

 

Credits:

Artwork by Hilary Campbell

Intro music by Jeremiah Moore

Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst)