The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Go back to the beginning of television’s longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes footage, memorable scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors, creators and crew members.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Brad Lachman
Actors: Christopher Meloni, Dick Wolf, Ice-T, Jamie Gray Hyder, Kelli Giddish, Mariska Hargitay, Peter Scanavino, Raúl Esparza, Stephanie March, Tamara Tunie
Country: United States
King Coal
The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the…
Lynch/Oz
Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.
Get Me Roger Stone
From his days of testifying at the Watergate hearings to advising recent presidential candidate Donald Trump, Roger Stone has long offended people on both sides of the political fence as…
PLAN C
A hidden grassroots organization doggedly fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Sergio Larraín, The Eternal Moment
This documentary offers a portrait of the photographer Sergio Larrain based on the mark that he left during the course of his existence: photographs, testimonies, philosophical texts, and in particular,…
Our Godfather
The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the…
Sir John Mills’ Moving Memories
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills’ Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain’s most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with…
Ithaka
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner,…
King on Screen
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror’s books, in more than 80 films and series,…
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
A documentary that follows the former Tonight Show host. Filmed during Conan’s ”Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” comedy tour, after his departure from the Tonight Show, taking viewers…
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
All the cool kids were wearing it. This documentary explores A&F’s pop culture reign in the late ’90s and early 2000s and how it thrived on exclusion.
Jodie Foster, Hollywood Under the Skin
From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster’s story is about a feminist struggle, albeit atypical, fought on and off the screen….