Clashes over the screening of a controversial, award-winning Hong Kong coming-of-age documentary at an Italian film festival have escalated, with the director accusing the secondary school at the centre of the dispute of “blatantly lying” about the arrangement for the showing. Acclaimed filmmaker Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting slammed Ying Wa Girls’ School over the documentary’s screening…
It’s a sign of our times that it takes a documentary on a 20-something-year-old OTT platform with over 300 million subscribers worldwide to remind us of the importance of a print magazine that began exactly 100 years ago in New York and still has only 3% of its number of subscribers (its digital subscribers form…
LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused to say Wednesday whether he would urge President Trump to drop his threat to sue the BBC for a billion dollars over the broadcaster’s edit of a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election. During his weekly questioning in the House of Commons, Starmer was asked by…
Designer and ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham describes herself as someone who “desperately wanted to be liked” in a new three-part documentary about her life. In the Netflix series, which debuted on October 9, the 51-year-old once known as Posh Spice recounts her battle to reinvent herself as a fashion designer after the British girl band…
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101 East investigates why Chinese nationalists have committed violent, sometimes deadly acts against Japanese civilians. September 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the decades since, deep resentment towards Japan has remained among much of the Chinese population, with Beijing maintaining that Tokyo has never fully apologised for…
China aired a documentary last week showing how the Qing dynasty took back Xinjiang from foreign forces in the late 19th century – Beijing’s latest effort to counter Western narratives and strengthen Chinese national identity in ethnic minority border areas. The six-episode documentary, titled Zuo Zongtang Recovers Xinjiang, was produced and aired by the broadcaster…
The poster image for The True Cost released 10 years ago The True Cost “It’s 10 years later, and there’s still not a week that goes by that I don’t get a handful of notes from people that have started a company, or maybe just changed their personal habits because of the documentary,” says Andrew…
101 East exposes the dark side of our fast fashion obsession, revealing its toll on India’s environment and workers. Fast fashion has become a global wardrobe staple. It’s an affordable way to stay on top of ever-evolving trends, but at what cost? Many items are discarded after just a few wears, with shipping containers of…
Atomic People (PBS image) Stephanie Prange July 8, 2025 As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first and only atomic bombs were used in warfare, Atomic People, which provides a powerful historical record, capturing the firsthand testimony of the last Japanese survivors of the blast, premieres Aug. 4 at 10-11:30 p.m. ET on…