“Circus of Books” - The Jewish Factor
Making a film with mom, dad, and LA’s most beloved gay porn store.
Jul 15, 2019•27 min
The Document
The Document is KCRW's new kind of mashup of documentaries and radio - telling addictive, real life, right now stories.
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Episodes
Preschool Panic
Pulling back the dark veil of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.
Apr 17, 2019•33 min
Underground
Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson brings us the story of the made-in-secret documentary “Underground.” How did director Emile de Antonio manage to find - and film - the wanted fugitives of the leftist Weather Underground?
Mar 27, 2019•35 min
A Hard Truth
The story of two films - a narrative and a documentary - made inside a fully functioning, maximum-security prison.
Mar 08, 2019•34 min
Lamerica
An Italian filmmaker drives across the country looking for his vision of America.
Jan 30, 2019•20 min
The Yellow Laugh
A notorious dictator demands a recut of the documentary about him – or else .
Dec 12, 2018•22 min
Chef Flynn
What happens when a prodigy chef realizes his dream, at 19?
Nov 14, 2018•18 min
Free Solo
Will the cameras kill Alex Honnold on his free solo climb of El Cap?
Oct 03, 2018•23 min
Return to Rockford
A filmmaker steps out from behind the camera to interview his mom about his family’s excruciating past.
Aug 22, 2018•24 min
Dark Money
The toxic pit that’s the country’s largest Superfund site is a painful reminder of the corruption of Montana’s Copper Kings...and a warning of what corporate spending can still do to democracy today.
Jul 18, 2018•15 min
Love Means Zero
A Grand Slam of an interview with tennis coaching legend Nick Bollettieri. [Explicit Content]
Jun 20, 2018•23 min
Cuba and the Cameraman...and his Daughter
The perks and perils of growing up in the family business, traveling the world and making documentary films.
Mar 21, 2018•22 min
Music and Meaning
A filmmaker and composer pull back the curtain on how they use music to shape the way we experience documentaries.
Mar 07, 2018•20 min
Bad is Good
A story about a Neil Simon play gone bad - and the documentary that was going to make everything better. [Explicit language]
Feb 21, 2018•32 min
Committed
Brian Watts went to prison when he was 18. When he got out on parole, he was 42, and on a mission to find love - for the very first time.
Feb 07, 2018•30 min
Love and Science
The world's top student scientists converge at the Olympics of science fairs.
Jan 17, 2018•21 min
Ministry of Presence
How a minister who made the execution chamber his office changed his mind about the death penalty.
Nov 08, 2017•30 min
A Spark in His Eye
Brimstone and Glory is a fiery trip into a Mexican city's glorious orgy of fireworks.
Oct 25, 2017•18 min
The Hands of Persons Unknown
Looking at one of America's greatest shames. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
Oct 11, 2017•17 min
The Lost Tapes
What could documentaries about Princess Diana and the 1992 Los Angeles riots possibly have in common?
Sep 13, 2017•20 min
Dominion
A deep dive into big game hunting -- a world most of us have very strong feelings about...but really know very little.
Aug 30, 2017•16 min
Inside Voice
A young singer-songwriter's voice starts out sounding like a girl, ends up sounding like a man...and he finds his true voice along the way. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
Aug 16, 2017•19 min
Eating Diane
When exotic food writer Eddie Lin asked his pregnant wife if she'd consider letting him eat her placenta, she said, "no way". But she asked him when their second child came along...and Eddie had to figure out how to cook it.
Aug 02, 2017•20 min
Psychedelic Misery
A cinematographer's bad trip coincides with the death of the '60s. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
Jul 19, 2017•27 min
Baby Steps
A documentary filmmaker's five-year trip down the rabbit hole of in vitro fertilization. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
Jul 05, 2017•23 min
The End of the Endless Summer
A look at back at The Endless Summer -- the most influential surf movie ever -- 50 years after it came out.
Jun 21, 2017•18 min
Because It's There
A former mountaineer returns to the Himalayas for one last climb...to bury his long lost friend. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
Jun 07, 2017•33 min
The Blue Dress
At a time when many immigrants are living in fear of detention and deportation, a group of young undocumented activists in Florida have been actually trying to get themselves detained...and it's not as easy as you might think. (EXPLICIT LANGUAGE)
May 10, 2017•26 min
Body Language
A veteran documentary cameraperson reflects on a moment she filmed years earlier...and only recently realized what a brave and monumental act she'd captured. [EXPLICIT LANGUAGE]
Apr 26, 2017•21 min
'The Document' Sneak Peek
The Document is a new kind of mash-up between documentaries and radio. From creator Matt Holzman, it goes beyond clips and interviews, mining great stories from the raw footage of documentaries present, past and in-progress.
Apr 15, 2017•3 min
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