TD Interviews

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The Everything Union

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Dec 20, 2024 A new documentary goes inside the dramatic origins of the Amazon Labor Union — just in time for holiday shopping decisions. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

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Exile’s Eye

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Dec 4, 2024 To understand the pain of deracination, Raoul Peck resurrects the legacy of apartheid-era photographer Ernest Cole. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

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Intrepid Exile Mohammad Rasoulof Thwarts the Theocracy

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Nov 26, 2024 Iran’s outcast artist on the “gangsters of culture” and making movies under the mullahs’ noses. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

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Behold a Winged Horse

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Nov 25, 2024 In “Surveilled,” Ronan Farrow investigates Pegasus, the world’s most infamous spyware. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

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Ken Burns Does Da Vinci

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Nov 15, 2024 A chronicler of Americana takes on the towering genius of 15th century Italy. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

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What Quiet Meditation on an Eastern Himalayan Moth Can Teach Us

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Nov 1, 2024 Two Indian filmmakers on the importance of looking at the world with more attention and hearing with more intent. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

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The Week John and Yoko Seized American TV

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Oct 7, 2024 “Daytime Revolution” chronicles John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1972 takeover — with a little help from their radical friends — of “The Mike Douglas Show.” Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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John Leguizamo: Decolonizing Hispanic History Onscreen

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Sep 26, 2024 From Aztecs and Incans to United Farm Workers and Young Lords, the actor tells ‘the untold history of Latinos’ in a new documentary series. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

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Coming of Age in the Shadow of 9/11

Eoin Higgins / Truthdig Sep 20, 2024 A new book offers a personal and political history of Bush-era America and its imprints on the present. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Surviving the Cruel Saga of Canada’s Indigenous Boarding Schools

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Aug 16, 2024 “Sugarcane” chronicles the cruel intergenerational saga of Canada’s Indigenous boarding schools. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

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​Woody Guthrie’s Shack Becomes a Shrine

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Aug 1, 2024 An interview with Ellen Geer about her actor father, the Red Scare and growing up with a famous folk singer in a cottage that’s now a museum. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

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‘Uncropped’: James Hamilton’s Life in Photos

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Apr 24, 2024 A new documentary chronicles an iconic New York photography career and the death of the media economy that nourished it. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )