![]() ![]() Coming out right after both women passed away makes Bright Lights a bittersweet release, and a celebration of their life and love that's too consistently funny to ever be too sad. Followed primarily in 2014, each has her respective return to the limelight, Fisher working on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Reynolds being honored with lifetime achievement awards. Why it's great: Who knew that Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds made for a modern-day Beales of Grey Gardens? Although neither as eccentric nor as squalorous as doc icons Little and Big Edie, the famous daughter-mother duo are still fabulous, as intimately profiled by fellow actor-turned-Oscar-winning-documentarian Fisher Stevens. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynoldsĭirectors: Fisher Stevens ( The Cove) and Alexis Bloom ![]() Where to see it right now: Stream on Amazon Prime rent on iTunes, Amazon, and VUDU ( watch the trailer) PBSĢ1. In addition to being a positive showcase of heroic citizen journalists, the doc presents us with a media war, as RBSS combats, through imagery, the world’s current scariest villains, who use their own videos as weapons of propaganda. The images they put out to the world, much of it collected here and never seen before, is devastating stuff. City of Ghost's internationally honored main characters operate from relatively safe locations in Germany and Turkey, while other members bravely report from their ISIS-occupied hometown. This time he focuses on the heavily documented Syria but specifically spotlights the city of Raqqa and the journalism organization known as Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently. Why it’s great: Heineman follows his Oscar nomination for Cartel Land with another trip to a brutally violent territory. ![]() Director: Matthew Heineman ( Cartel Land) ![]()
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