Film
Looking Back at the Misbegotten Woodstock ’99 Music Festival
The HBO documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage views the event not just as one fiasco, but as an allegory for the Y2K era.
Barbara Kopple
Film
The Bizarre World of US Gun Violence, Seen Through Documentaries
Watching from Chile, these films feel not like documents of the US’s present but a premonition of the future here.
Film
An Oscar-winning Director Sets Her Sights on the Failed US Hostage Rescue in Iran
Barbara Kopple’s Desert One chronicles the disastrous events of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980.