Don Schwartz Spotlight on Documentaries
Welcome to the Blog of actor/journalist/personal historian Don Schwartz.
Don has been published in a variety of publications since 1977. His book, Telling Their Own Stories: Conversations with Documentary Filmmakers, is available from Amazon in softback or Kindle edition.
Don holds multiple degrees, including a Ph.D. in psychology and counseling from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Don is a regular guest on our web radio show, The Art of Film Funding, produced by From the Heart Productions, reviewing documentary films with founder Carole Dean—http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-art-of-film-funding
Don also contributes film reviews and filmmaker profiles to CineSource Magazine online—www.CineSourceMagazine.com
His weekly film review appears in The Marin Post—https://marinpost.org/
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
I am as fascinated with the making of Sonia Kennebeck’s documentary 
Written, produced, and directed by Dani Menkin andYonatan Nir, 
There are 22.5 million refugees worldwide, over half of which are under the age of 18.
From the Filmmaker: 
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” Thomas Jefferson
Ben Rekhi’s 
“We have very large airplanes, very large helicopters, lots of equipment on the ground, lots of people, fire engines—all of that, and there is no trend that we can see that indicates that we will ever be able to control extreme wildfires.”
Jack Cohen, Research Physical Scientist, (Retired), Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, US
Cosima Dannoritzer’s 
Preface: epistemology—the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
I have seen my fair share of documentaries about UFOs/aliens. Read a couple books, too, and watched a few seasons of Ancient Aliens. I’ve never seen either a UFO nor an alien, yet I have no doubt that they both exist, and that they ha
I rarely cover Netflix documentaries because,… well, they’re Netflix, and the streamer gives documentary films plenty of much-needed exposure. But, I do watch their documentary films, and this one, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is one of those films that should be seen by the whole world.
Attenborough is 93 years of age. He has had a magnificent and storied career covering the natural world. I’ve seen most, i
Yours truly flew Cessna 150s and 172s out of Atlanta’s Fulton County Airport for four years in the 1960s. So, naturally, I must cover this much-needed documentary about women in aeronautics and space.
It was well worth it.
Katie McEntire Wiatt’s 
Rodney Stotts was born into a semi-impoverished community in the Maryland/DC region. His early life was on the streets, during a crack epidemic, losing friends and family to drugs and violence. He doesn’t look back or talk about it.
Instead he talks about and demonstrates his work as a licensed master Falconer, as well as his environmental work cleaning up rivers with high school dropouts under the aegis of 