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EXCLUSIVE: Keith Adams, the deaf coach who made history leading an all-deaf high school football team to 12 consecutive victories against all-hearing teams, has inspired two major projects: a feature film from the Project Power directors and a documentary from the NFL. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman have signed on to…

Under fire actor Kevin Spacey’s life and upcoming legal cases are to be the subject of a two-part doc series from British broadcaster Channel 4. British broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered a two-part doc series that promises to take a "forensic" look at actor Kevin Spacey. Spacey Unmasked (working title) will look at…

Alex Holder said that during the interviews he conducted for his Discovery+ docuseries Unprecedented, Donald Trump never wavered from his contention that the election was stolen from him, while his children, including Ivanka, supported their father’s post-election challenge. Yet Holder’s access to the First Family isn…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Lundberg have seen this day coming. For a long time. Their 2108 Netflix documentary Reversing Roe examined how right-wing activists, politicians and jurists were steadily chipping away at abortion rights across the country, with the goal of eventually overturning Roe v. Wade…

EXCLUSIVE: Before Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsey there was Charlie Trotter, the O.G. of bad boy chefs. The late culinary master, who earned Michelin stars at his restaurants in Chicago and Las Vegas, is the subject of Rebecca Halpern's debut documentary Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter. Gree…

To this day, filmmaker Rory Kennedy won't fly on a Boeing 737 Max aircraft. "Based on what I know," she tells Deadline, "I would not get on the 737 Max and I would not let my family get on a 737 Max." Her point of view is significant because Kennedy has learned a great deal about the aircraft in the course of making…

Scott Sternberg Productions today announced the launch of a new documentary division and the acquisition of Strong Island Films. The first project under SSP's new division, Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil: My Story, will premiere this Sunday on REELZ. Sternberg directed the documentary in which the lead singer of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the January 6th Committee, said on Wednesday that the hearing schedule will continue into July. A reason: Newly obtained evidence, including footage from British filmmaker Alex Holder, who is scheduled to speak to the committee on Thursday. Per Politico, Thompson…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ announced today that its documentary The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s “American Pie” will premiere exclusively on the streamer on July 19th, both in the U.S. and internationally, where the service is available. The film will also get an Academy-qualifying run in Los Angeles and…

Epix has picked up BBC doc My Life As A Rolling Stone – four-part series that looks at the veteran rock band. The series, which comes from Universal Music's Mercury Studios, is tied to the 60th anniversary of the Wild Horses rockers and comes as Mick, Keef et al. are in the middle of a world tour to celebrate. The…

EXCLUSIVE: A docuseries about one woman's crusade against the self-styled 'King of Revenge Porn' is set to launch on Netflix. The streamer has ordered three-part series The Most Hated Man on the Internet from Raw TV, the All3Media-backed production company behind vaunted true-crime docs including Don't F**k with Cats…

For anyone who has seen the documentary Amazing Grace, it's hard to imagine a film to rival the one about the making of Aretha Franklin's gospel album. But the new film Stay Prayed Up contains equally ecstatic moments of a gospel singer in performance, in this case a not widely known but deeply gifted woman referred…