Docu a compelling portrait of high school debaters
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With its esoteric rules  and ultra-ambitious participants, competitive high school  debate would seem, at first glance, a dry and potentially  off-putting subject for a documentary.
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âThe Education of Ms. Groves,â a documentary that will be shown on the Sundance Channel as a half-hour series tonight through Friday, lays out the journey of this neophyte language-arts teacher as neatly as if it were a sentence to be diagramed.
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Sift through the newspaper clippings on Harvard's football team, read deeper than the headlines, and look past the controversy.
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The Democratic contender will converse with students at Coe College in Iowa, as well as viewers watching a live stream and submitting questions online.
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Interviews with both men were added this past week to the college's "Mapping Our Tears" exhibit, in which visitors watch videotaped testimony from an attic setting resembling those that Jewish fugitives might ...
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Diverse and well funded, the next generation of conservatives is winning battles on campus. But not all are fighting for George W. Bush
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"What's funnier than real-life experience?" Alexander Payne asks. That question easily could serve as the motto for the director who set "Election" in a real high school with authentic real students and plopped an au naturel Kathy Bates into a hot tub for "About Schmidt."
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An academic real world -- plus, a chance to win $1,000.
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A campus comedy with a dirty mouth and a surprisingly wise mind, âFreshman Orientationâ uses identity politics as a road to romance and emotional maturity.
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A documentary called âObsession: Radical Islamâs War Against the Westâ has become the latest flashpoint in the bitter campus debate over the Middle East.
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An enthralling documentary follows the Afghan politician Malalai Joya through the final months of campaigning for her countryâs National Assembly in 2005.
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Lots of inaccuracies and exaggerations were tossed around at the Republican and Democratic debates at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Saturday night. A team of Washington Post fact checkers monitored the back-to-back 90-minute debates, and a live fact check was posted online at...
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A division between American dramatic competition and documentaries could be seen in this year's competitive selections.
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Charles Ferguson's  documentary "No End in Sight" has more than lived up to its  name. A year ago, the political scientist-turned-documentarian  was preparing to launch the Iraq-themed film at the Sundance  Film Festival.
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Monday will deliver a milestone in presidential campaign history, as user-generated video drives a debate.
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Young, Internet-savvy voters challenged Democratic presidential hopefuls on Iraq, the military draft and the candidates' own place in a broken political system, playing starring roles in a provocative, video-driven debate Monday night.
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The life of a high school science fair winner isn't easy. But the research itself can be earth-shattering.