Topic: Barbara Kopple

The 50 best documentaries of all time

As long as there is fantasy and wish fulfillment onscreen, audiences will also yearn for the truth?or something close to it. FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004) America braced itself for Michael Moore's rage?during a presidential election year, no less. Moore ...

Shut up and sing

The Dixie Chicks, the top-selling female recording artists of all time, were the darlings of country music until Natalie Maines, the group's lead singer, said she was ashamed that George Bush came from Texas. Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's affirmative ...

This is your brain on film

If there's a gotcha moment in Addiction-the centerpiece of HBO's The Addiction Project, a 14-documentary series that premieres Thursday 15 and continues through Sunday 18-it's when Gary Tennis of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association suggests that managed-care health providers ...