The 25 Best Documentaries of the Decade (2000-2009)

Upton Sinclair, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein may have set the standard for muckraking in the 20th century, but their heirs apparent are as likely to pick up a video camera as they are a pen when they fight the battles of the 21st...  read more

Listen to Al Gore Narrate the Intro to Google Earth's Climate Change Simulator

Just in time for the UN's climate change conference in Copenhagen, Google has released an interactive tour of climate change scenarios, as well as some "possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation."...  read more

The Seven Most Iconic Liberal-Guilt Documentaries

Ever since last year’s election cycle finally lunged to an end, so-called “liberal guilt” has retired to a quieter existence. Now less of an anti-Obama anthem and more of an amusing curiosity, the concept of guilt over leftists' long history of complacency with the big, evil, corporate world can return to where it's most comfortable: the documentary film....  read more

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth heads to the opera

Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth is being reworked into an opera by Giorgio Battistelli for Milan's famous La Scala opera house. Continuing in the grand tradition of other movies being turned into operas (Lost Highway, The Fly, Brokeback Mountain), the opera-ified version of the movie that is credited with launching the 'green' movement is set to be performed for La Scala's 2011 season....  read more