Which documentary was released later, Baghdad ER, or Capturing the Friedmans?
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Baghdad ER Baghdad ER is a documentary released by HBO on May 21, 2006. It shows the Iraq war from the perspective of a military hospital in Baghdad. It has some relatively disturbing scenes in it (e.g. amputations), therefore the U.S. Army is officially warning that military personnel watching it could experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Capturing the Friedmans Capturing the Friedmans is a 2003 HBO documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki. It focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2003.
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Gaza Strip (film) Gaza Strip is a 2002 documentary film by James Longley which records events taking place in 2001 during the Second Intifada.
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Amal Al Khedairy Amal Al Khedairy (born 1928) is an Iraqi academic, lecturer, scholar, art historian and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House") in Baghdad. The centre would focus mostly on reviving Iraqi crafts and finding new avenues for them, as well as concerts and lectures; being the only institution of its kind in Baghdad to do so during the 90s. It was the only private center in Iraq focusing on Iraqi craft and heritage in Baghdad during the mid eighties until the fall of Baghdad on 9 April 2003.
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Siskel/Jacobs Productions Siskel/Jacobs Productions is a Chicago, Illinois-based documentary and film-production company.
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Menachem Friedman Menachem Friedman (Hebrew: מנחם פרידמן‎ ‎ ; born 1936) is an Israeli Emeritus Professor of sociology at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. He explores the field of religion and the confrontations between religious and secular Judaism in modern history. He also studies the modern process of Halachic decision making.
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Voices of Iraq Voices of Iraq is a 2004 documentary film about Iraq, created by distributing cameras to the subjects of a film, thus enabling subjects to film themselves. To preserve its innovative filmmaking, "Voices of Iraq" was added to the permanent collection of Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Joshua Seftel Joshua Seftel (born July 17, 1968) is an American filmmaker.[1] He currently lives in New York City and is represented by Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles. Seftel began his career in documentaries at age 22 with his Emmy-nominated film, "Lost and Found," about Romania’s orphaned children. He followed this with several films including the political campaign film "Taking on the Kennedys", selected by Time Magazine as one of the “ten best of the year”; the underdog sports film "The Home Team" which premiered at SXSW, and the behind-the-scenes film about Annie’s Broadway revival "It’s the Hard Knock Life" which the New York Times called “delightful.” Seftel's first foray into comedy, "Breaking the Mold", gained cult status on the film festival circuit and caught the attention of filmmaker Alexander Payne, who championed him as a director. Seftel went on to direct the political satire War, Inc. starring John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack, and Ben Kingsley which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Seftel continues his work both in documentary film, mini-series, and commercial branded content with pieces such as his most recent series, "The Secret Life of Muslims."
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Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers Answering The Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers is a documentary film that pays tribute to the thousands of volunteers who answered New York City's call for help following the September 11 attacks in 2001. The film was directed by Lou Angeli and is narrated by actress Kathleen Turner, both of whom served at Ground Zero as volunteers.
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Robert Friedman (producer) Robert Friedman (born March 24, 1956) is a businessman in the entertainment industry. He is the CEO of Bungalow Media + Entertainment, a private equity-backed entertainment and media company he founded in 2013. It develops, produces and distributes content across all platforms. Beginning his career as an account manager at Grey Advertising he then held roles at AOL Time Warner, New Line Cinema, Classic Media, and RadicalMedia. He has produced films including , , and Under African Skies, for which he shared a Christopher Award.
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Mostar Round-Trip Mostar Round-Trip (Hebrew: מוסטאר הלוך ושוב) is a 2011 Israeli documentary film, a Fisher Features Ltd. release directed and produced by David Fisher. The film follows his son, Yuval and his classmates who are studying in an international high-school, United World College, in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.The film also exposes the recuperating city, which has been greatly damaged during the Bosnian War and is now geographically divided between the Bosniak and Croat populations. This is the second film in the family trilogy created by Fisher that started with the critically acclaimed Love Inventory (2000) and completed by Six Million and One (2011).
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Farewell Baghdad (2013 film) Farewell Baghdad (Hebrew: מפריח היונים‎ ‎ , lit. "The Dove Flyer"; Arabic: مطير الحمام‎ ‎ ) is an Israeli film based on the novel with the same name, by Iraqi-born Jewish writer Eli Amir. The film was directed by Nissim Dayan, who also wrote the screenplay. The idea for the film was conceived by actress Ahuva Keren, and the script was translated by her into Judeo-Arabic. The making of the film was completed in 2013, but the film itself was commercially released in April 2014.
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Drilling and Killing Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship is an audio documentary produced by Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, mixed and engineered by Dred Scott Keyes. The piece was first aired in 1998 on "Democracy Now!"
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Yisrael Friedman (Pashkaner Rebbe) Yisrael Friedman (November 8, 1923 – May 1, 2017) was known as the Pashkaner Rebbe (after the city of Pașcani where his grandfather served as Rebbe). He was a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the "rosh yeshiva" of a "hesder yeshiva" in Netivot.
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Errol Barnett Errol Barnett is a British-born American anchor and correspondent for CBS News based in Washington, D.C. He previously anchored "CNN Newsroom" during overnight hours in the U.S. after hosting CNN International's cultural affairs program "Inside Africa." During his two years at the helm of the award-winning show Barnett reported from 22 countries including Senegal, Morocco, Ethiopia and Madagascar. He was profiled in GQ South Africa in May 2013 and asked about his extensive journeys.
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Cries from Syria Cries from Syria is a documentary film about the Syrian Civil War, directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, and acquired by HBO. It contains video shot by Syrians with and interviews with freedom fighters, activists, journalists, defected military men, and refugees, some that are children.
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Four Horsemen (film) Four Horsemen is a 2012 British documentary film directed by Ross Ashcroft. The film criticises the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which it regards as a serious threat to Western civilisation. It criticises the War on Terror, which it maintains is not fought to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations, but to create larger debt to the banks. As an alternative, the film promotes a return to classical economics and the gold standard. Among those interviewed are Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank; Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor; John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"; ecological economist and steady-state theorist Herman Daly, formerly at the World Bank; and Max Keiser, TV host and former trader. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2012. A book based on the film has been published.
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Richard Elliott Friedman Richard Elliott Friedman (born May 5, 1946) is a biblical scholar and the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia.
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George Steinmetz George Steinmetz (born 1957) is an American photographer. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Geophysics in 1979. He began his career in photography after hitchhiking through Africa for 28 months in his twenties. His current work focuses on photographing the world's deserts while piloting a motorized paraglider. This experimental aircraft enables him to capture images of the world inaccessible by traditional aircraft and most other modes of transportation.
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Silver Jew Silver Jew is a 2007 documentary film by Michael Tully and Matthew Robison about the musician David Berman and his band Silver Jews. Shot in just three days with no production budget, the film chronicles the band's stop in Israel to play two shows in Tel Aviv and visit Jerusalem during their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006.
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The Henkin Brothers The Henkin brothers, Evgeny (December 14, 1900 – January 3, 1938) and Yakov (December 2, 1903 – November 12, 1941), were notable early 20th century amateur and street photographers who primarily recorded the daily life of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, and Berlin, Germany in the late 1920s and 1930s. Their photographs, never printed and kept as negatives in boxes, were re-discovered by the descendants of Yakov Henkin in 2010s. This collection, known as the Henkin Brothers Archive, consists of more than 7000 frames of photography.
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Stephen J. Friedman (producer) Stephen Jay Friedman (March 15, 1937 – October 4, 1996) was an American film producer known for "The Last Picture Show" (1971) and "The Big Easy" (1988). In 1980 he formed Kings Road Entertainment—named after the West Hollywood street where he lived—, making him one of the first independent film producers to raise substantial film funding through a publicly traded company.