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Movies

Boyz II Men movie to tell story of the R&B group's decades-long career

Boyz II Men Movie

Movies

John Legend-produced documentary explores Philadelphia's unique brand of soul music

Philly sound Teddy Pendergrass

Movies

Documentary chronicles the raunchy, ridiculous history of the Wing Bowl

Wing Bowl doc

Festivals

Philadelphia Film Festival will screen Oscar contenders and a Wing Bowl documentary

Philadelphia Film Festival

Movies

Adam McKay now an executive producer on 'Union' documentary about Amazon warehouse workers

Adam McKay Union

Film

Questlove's next film project will be a documentary on Earth, Wind & Fire

Questlove New Documentary

Music

Lizzy McAlpine to release documentary about the making of 'Older' album

lizzy mcalpine older documentary

Movies

Rockers Low Cut Connie to debut film next month featuring concert footage and off-stage antics

Low Cut Connie

Movies

Penn Vet program for search-and-rescue dogs featured in Netflix documentary

Penn Vet Netflix

Music

Lower Merion native tasked with writing soundtrack for 'road trip' documentary about U.S. National Parks

Lower Merion composer

Movies

New Bruce Springsteen documentary coming to Hulu, Disney+ in October

Bruce springsteen doc

Arts & Culture

New Hope Film Festival to show Malcolm Kenyatta documentary

Kenyatta Documentary

TV

Hulu docuseries follows Bon Jovi from New Jersey beginnings to current crisis

Bon Jovi documentary

Movies

Bernard Hopkins, Tim Witherspoon featured in new boxing documentary 'In the Company of Kings'

Boxing documentary Bernard Hopkins

Movies

Penn Relays documentary explores history, cultural significance of annual track meet at Franklin Field

Penn Relays Documentary

Movies

New documentary about Phoenixville's Firebird Festival to play at Colonial Theatre

Firebird Festival documentary

Movies

Tierra Whack's pseudo-documentary 'Cypher' to stream on Hulu later this month

Movies

New HBO documentary follows Philly high schoolers as they record an album

Stand Up & Shout documentary

Movies

In 'Bad Things in Philadelphia,' the film shows how programs for youth could ease the city's gun violence crisis

Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia

Film

'Kelce' is Prime Video's most-watched documentary in US

TV

Rittenhouse Square stabbing docuseries uses Sean Schellenger's death to explore criminal justice in Philly

Sean Schellenger docuseries

Movies

Documentary exploring former Pa. state Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell's grief and activism to debut on PBS this fall

Murders That Matter

Movies

Trailer for Jason Kelce documentary shows the Eagles center mulling retirement

Kelce documentary trailer

TV

HBO's 'Telemarketers' docuseries investigates N.J. call center scam

Telemarketers HBO

Streaming

Jason Kelce's upcoming Eagles season to be documented for Prime Video series

Jason Kelce prime

Arts & Culture

Filmmaker interviews one author from each state for documentary, including Pa.'s Carmen Maria Machado

carmen maria machado documentary

Arts & Culture

BlackStar Film Festival returns next month with 93 film screenings at three Philly theaters

BlackStar Film Festival

Movies

'Midnight Oil,' a documentary about the 2019 Southwest Philly oil refinery explosion, now streaming on YouTube

Midnight Oil Documentary

TV

New HBO docuseries revisits 1990s serial killings of gay men from Philly and N.Y.

Last Call HBO

Media

Joel Embiid starts media company, will release documentary on his life

Embiid media company

Movies

'The League,' sports doc produced by Questlove and Black Thought, chronicles the rise of Negro League baseball

The League Documentary

Sixers

Interview: 'Everything But The Chip' director details making of 2001 Sixers documentary

Movies

Documentary short follows Tarik Khan, the nurse practitioner who delivered COVID vaccines to Philadelphians

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Film

The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival is back: here's what's playing and where

Independent Film Festival

Illness

New Lyme disease documentary aims to bring awareness to the tick-borne illness and spur research efforts

Lyme disease documentary

Lawsuits

Netflix used man's photos in film, mistaking him for hitchhiker who killed N.J. attorney, lawsuit says

Netflix Lawsuit Hitchhiker

Festivals

Screen 'Stephen Curry: Underrated' during Philadelphia Film Festival SpringFest

PFS SpringFest

Movies

4 documentaries on Irish history and culture to stream for St. Patrick's Day

Irish Documentaries

Movies

Questlove's Sly Stone documentary, a follow-up to 'Summer of Soul,' to be produced for Hulu

Streaming

How to use Kanopy, the streaming service that comes with your Free Library card

free library kanopy

Music

Jazmine Sullivan, Taylor Swift songs added to shortlist for Oscar nominations

Music

Lawsuit against Taylor Swift for 'Shake It Off' lyrics, recently dismissed, is subject of CNN documentary

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