Hacker News with Generative AI: Documentary

"C" Is for Censorship: PBS Cuts 'Art Spiegelman' Doc (documentary.org)
Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women’s March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.

Censorship, Documentary, Politics, Art, Media

6 points by colinprince 17 hours ago | 0 comments

Shifty – A brand new Adam Curtis series [video] (youtube.com)

Documentary, Film, YouTube, Adam Curtis

11 points by valeg 5 days ago | 1 comments

Star Trek documentary reveals Lucille Ball's sci-fi influence (2021) (inverse.com)
Without Lucy, we’d never have reached the Final Frontier.

Star Trek, Television, History, Documentary, Science Fiction

6 points by dxs 19 days ago | 0 comments

Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams (2018) (hustwit.com)
Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential designers alive, and a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design.

Design, Documentary, Consumerism, Sustainability

71 points by Michelangelo11 21 days ago | 19 comments

A Dead Pixel on a Monitor Set Release of Goofy Movie Back by 1 Year (polygon.com)
Disney Plus’ documentary Not Just a Goof reveals a fun (and for the filmmakers, horrifying) production detail

Disney, Film Production, Goofy Movie, Documentary, Entertainment

9 points by coloneltcb 46 days ago | 1 comments

'No Other Land' Filmmaker Beaten and Detained, Claims Activist Group (hollywoodreporter.com)
One of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been injured and detained after a conflict that took place on the West Bank, according to his fellow filmmaker and an activist group.

Filmmaking, Activism, Israel, Palestine, Documentary

24 points by suraci 59 days ago | 2 comments

Florida mayor seeks to evict cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary (theguardian.com)
The mayor of Miami Beach is attempting to evict an independent cinema from city-owned property after it screened No Other Land, the film about Palestinian displacement in the West Bank that just won the Oscar for best documentary.

Politics, Cinema, Documentary, Palestine, Florida

13 points by impish9208 71 days ago | 2 comments

Roland tr 808 / Documental [video] (youtube.com)

Music, Documentary, Roland TR-808

3 points by Tomte 73 days ago | 0 comments

The Making of Lego Island: A Documentary [video] (youtube.com)

Video Games, Documentary, Lego

7 points by Klaster_1 126 days ago | 0 comments

iPhone 4 Documentary: Theft, Death and Steve Jobs [video] (youtube.com)

iPhone, Documentary, Steve Jobs, Apple, Technology

8 points by rport 158 days ago | 0 comments

Into the Phones of Teens (newyorker.com)
About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of Arizona freshman named Sydney—as she exercises on an elliptical machine at the gym.

Social Media, Teenagers, Documentary

7 points by mitchbob 195 days ago | 1 comments

The Downfall of Olivetti – Exploring an Abandoned Computer Factory [video] (youtube.com)

History, Technology, Documentary, Italy, Factories

4 points by hggh 200 days ago | 0 comments

Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says (theguardian.com)
The centuries-old mystery over Christopher Columbus’s nationality has been revealed by scientists in a Spanish TV documentary after using DNA analysis.

History, Genetics, Spain, Documentary, Columbus

124 points by ywvcbk 222 days ago | 345 comments

A camera in the East Village, capturing the now and the long ago (nytimes.com)
The photographer Susan Schiffman shoots rent-stabilized apartments in the neighborhood intended as portraits of the unseen tenants who live in them.

Photography, East Village, Rent Control, Documentary

17 points by tintinnabula 224 days ago | 4 comments

Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says (politico.eu)
LONDON — A new HBO documentary identifies Canadian developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous founder of cryptocurrency bitcoin.

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Documentary, HBO, Identity

18 points by tzury 227 days ago | 28 comments

HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd (bloomberg.com)
A new HBO documentary about the origins of Bitcoin suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the original cryptocurrency, is likely Canadian software developer Peter Todd.

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, Documentary, Technology, Conspiracy Theories

62 points by pat2man 227 days ago | 147 comments

New HBO Documentary Claims Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Len Sassaman (blockhead.co)
HBO's upcoming documentary, 'Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery', claims the real Satoshi Nakamoto is Len Sassaman, who tragically took his life in 2011

Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Documentary, HBO, Biography

52 points by dist-epoch 230 days ago | 66 comments

Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims (politico.eu)
LONDON — A new HBO documentary claims to have cracked the true identity of the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Bitcoin, Cryptography, HBO, Documentary, Biography

50 points by cempaka 232 days ago | 53 comments

At Shinjuku's 24-Hour Drugstore [video] (nhk.or.jp)
A drugstore in Tokyo's busy Shinjuku district sells medicine, cosmetics and snacks around the clock. Why do people shop there? For three days and nights near the end of 2023, we asked them.

Japan, Retail, Convenience Stores, Documentary, Video

11 points by greenSunglass 256 days ago | 0 comments

Repair and Remain (2022) (comment.org)

Film, Documentary, 2022

615 points by yarapavan 284 days ago | 253 comments

Sierra On-Line Documentary to be made with impressive ex-employee cast (backerkit.com)

Documentary, Gaming, Sierra On-Line

32 points by lance_ewing 290 days ago | 4 comments

Rare footage of largest uncontacted tribe in the world [video] (youtube.com)

Indigenous Peoples, Amazon Rainforest, Anthropology, Video, Documentary

62 points by quantisan 308 days ago | 59 comments

Video Ethnography of "ICARUS" on the Xerox Alto [video] (2017) (youtube.com)