The 'silent auteur' tackled troubling social and economic issues in such films as 'Titicut Follies,' which exposed ...

This month offers a tribute to the prolific filmmaker who died last week at 96 and has a plausible claim to being the greatest documentarian who ever lived.

Desmond Denton grew up surrounded by storytelling in South Africa. Denton, whose film-making business is now based in Frederick, said narrative is everywhere in his home country, including how lessons ...