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A Russian schoolteacher smuggled footage abroad and made an award-winning documentary about wartime propaganda. Here’s how his hometown reacted.

Karabash used to be called “the most polluted city in the world,” but then, in 2025, it achieved fame thanks instead to the documentary film Mr. Nobody against Putin. Now the film is up for an Oscar.

‘Mariinka’ Director Talks Spending a Decade in Ukraine to Chronicle How a Country’s Youth Adapts to War in CPH:DOX Opener (EXCLUSIVE)

Pieter-Jan De Pue talks importance of 'time and flexibility' when shooting 'Mariinka' among war, praises CPH:DOX as a partner for ambitious projects.

‘MARIINKA’ Director on His Copenhagen Doc Fest Opening Film That Zooms in on Divided Families and Ukrainians’ Personal Stories Shaped by War

Pieter-Jan De Pue shares insights on working nine years on his feature about a place "where division was everywhere," tracing young lives, and why "we didn't really want to dive into a film that was ...

In ‘Hell’s Army,’ Intrepid Journalists Investigate Brutal Wagner Group, Russia’s Merciless Mercenary Army – CPH:DOX

The documentary Hell’s Army, directed by Richard Rowley, examines the rise of this shadowy group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Cord’ Portrays a “Maternity Warrior” in a Timely Doc Steeped in Solidarity and Sisterhood

Nolwenn Hervé discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, which follows a nurse fighting for safe birthing conditions in Venezuela's "broken" health care system. By Georg Szalai ...
Religion News Service

Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands’ freedom – and won

Couples in interfaith marriages came under intense pressure in Nazi Germany. But women’s protests in February 1943 may have helped save their husbands.
mlive

The Michigan Civil War soldier who was secretly a woman

Sarah Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to join the 2nd Michigan Infantry's Company F, known as the Flint Union Greys.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The U.S.-Israel War With Iran: 5 Documentaries & a Podcast Episode Help Explain the Backstory

New versions of ‘Remaking the Middle East’ and ‘Strike on Iran’ will premiere this month, and a FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast ...
Yes Theory on MSN

Watch what’s left of the world’s most nuked place - 456 explosions later

Hidden deep in Kazakhstan lies the Semipalatinsk Test Site - the place where the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear and hydrogen bombs during the Cold War. For decades this secret city was erased from ...
The Kyiv Independent on MSN

After six years at the front, here is what nobody tells you about being a woman at war

This May will mark six years since I put on a military uniform and began serving in the same marine infantry unit — first as ...

‘Mariinka’ Review: A Haunting Chronicle of Young Lives Shattered by the War in Ukraine

Jan De Pue tells another story of the war in Ukraine — this time through the perspective of five young people. All of them were at a ...

Four years of war have transformed Russia, but few will speak in public against it

Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine recently crossed the four-year mark. Throughout that time, one of the biggest questions has been: Is this what Russians want?