When former Davis County Sheriff William "Dub" Lawrence, the subject of the Independent Lens film Peace Officer, established one of Utah's first SWAT teams in 1975 he initially required a four-officer unit, but…...
While some might call Philippe Sands the on-screen host of My Nazi Legacy, the new film by David Evans that is based on Sands' new book, he's actually the probing,…...
Award-winning English director David Evans helmed the feature film Fever Pitch (the original, superior British version about soccer, starring Colin Firth, for which Nick Hornby adapted his best-selling book of the…...
Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter are the adult children of high-ranking Nazi officers. As we learn in My Nazi Legacy, their fathers sent tens of thousands of people to…...
A list of sources for stats seen in the animated short film about S.W.A.T., for Peace Officer. In 1964, S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics) is formed. Sources:, Mitchel P. Roth, Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001); and… Read More
Everything changed in the United States on September 11, 2001. While in the aftermath of those attacks much of the focus in what President George W. Bush called the "War on Terror" was…...
My Nazi Legacy explores the relationship between two men, each the sons of high-ranking Nazi officials, and internationally renowned British human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, whose family perished in the Holocaust. Sands met Niklas Frank and Horst van Wächter while researching his book East… Read More
Established in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson, Veterans Day (which is always November 11, to commemorate the date when WWI armistice was signed) has become a tradition to “honor America's veterans…...
Stray Dog filmmaker Debra Granik, on our behalf, checked back in with the subjects of her film, Ron "Stray Dog" Hall, and his Mexican-born stepsons, Angel and Jesús, to see how…...
Ron “Stray Dog” Hall is the force to be reckoned with in Debra Granik’s acclaimed documentary Stray Dog, which has its national television premiere Monday, November 9 on Independent Lens on PBS [10pm; check local listings]. “Sympathetic without… Read More
The central dilemma in Dan Krauss's Independent Lens documentary The Kill Team is grappled with by an American soldier in Afghanistan who found members of his platoon were committing immoral war crimes, and wanted…...
Filmmaker Dan Krauss, who was nominated for an Academy Award and two Emmys for his first feature, The Death of Kevin Carter, was on the Oscar shortlist for his latest documentary The…...