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by Brewing America | Nov 6, 2020 | All, Border, Border crisis, documentary, Film, Immigration, The Culture | 0 |
For five years, Omar Roman-Gomez and his family have been desperate for closure. Since 2015, when his older brother Homero Roman went missing after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S., Roman-Gomez, his parents, and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 4, 2020 | All, Athletes, documentary, Film, History, Olympics, Sports, The Culture | 0 |
On October 17, 1968, American track-and-field athlete Tommie Smith won the gold medal for the 200-meter dash at the Olympics in Mexico City. As he took the podium and the National Anthem played, he and his teammate John Carlos...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 23, 2020 | All, Anne Rapp, austin film festival, documentary, Film, horton foote, Texas film | 0 |
When Horton Foote was six years old, he arrived home out of breath one afternoon, covered in dirt and sweat. Stunned, his mother listened as he described a most harrowing scene: a wild dog had chased him across a cotton field,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 13, 2020 | All, Boys State, documentary, Film, Politics, texas legislature | 0 |
President George Washington’s famous warning about the dangers of partisan politics, delivered in his 1796 farewell address, appears on a title card at the outset of the new documentary Boys State. Yet it’s a cynical...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Sep 16, 2019 | All, Country Music, documentary, ken burns, Music, outlaw country, waylon jennings, willie nelson | 0 |
Ken Burns has told stories about the most important parts of American life. His eleven-hour documentary The Civil War is the definitive film on the subject; Baseball, clocking in at eighteen and a half hours, tells the full...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Sep 3, 2019 | All, documentary, Film, Janice Engel, Jim Hightower, Media, Molly Ivins, The National Podcast of Texas | 0 |
Subscribe Apple — Google Play — Stitcher — Spotify Seven years in the making, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins premiered at January’s Sundance Film Festival, played South By Southwest in March, and is now in...
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