Docuseries
Peace, Love, and Music Devolve Into a Clusterfuck in Trailer for Netflix’s Woodstock ’99 Docuseries: Watch
Woodstock ’99 infamously failed to emulate the three days of peace, love, and music that the original festival embodied 30 years prior. The new Netflix docuseries Clusterfuck: Woodstock ’99 attempts to uncover why, and its first trailer is out now. Combining real footage from the event with interviews with the artists who performed, Clusterfuck retraces the fires and riots that destroyed Woodstock ’99 in three 45-minute episodes. Mounds of garbage and overturned cars litter the series’ trailer, as artists like Jewel recall the festival’s turbulent energy. “It felt like a crowd that could turn at any time,” the singer-songwriter says. Other eyewitnesses attribute the toxicity of the event — which was marred by vandalism and sexual assault — to “male ego,” a lack of secur...
Barack Obama Is a Nature Documentarian in Trailer for Our Great National Parks: Watch
Barack Obama is trading the White House for the great outdoors. The 44th US President lends his voice to the new Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks, which just released its first trailer. Check out the clip below. From a fish that walks on land to hippos that surf the ocean waves, Obama waxes poetic about the little-known animals that inhabit our planet. “Around the world, the more isolated the national park, the more unusual its creatures and the more extraordinary their behaviors,” he narrates, before making a physical appearance in the trailer. Our Great National Parks explores the likes of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, the Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia, and the Chilean Patagonia — all of whic...
AI Program Brings Andy Warhol’s Words to Life in Trailer for Netflix Docuseries: Watch
Ever wonder what Andy Warhol would sound like if an AI program was used to recreate his voice? Well, Netflix and Ryan Murphy have answered that question with a docuseries pulling from Warhol’s posthumously published diaries. Check out the trailer below. Spread out over six one-hour episodes, The Andy Warhol Diaries begins with his childhood in Pittsburgh and traces his larger-than-life journey as a director, publisher, TV producer, and more. With the approval of The Andy Warhol Foundation, “cutting-edge AI techniques” were used to help the eccentric artist posthumously tell his own story from the diaries that he began writing after being shot in 1968. Among the topics covered in the trailer are the religious themes in Warhol’s work, as well as his sexuality: Namely, what was the exten...
Sundance Review: We Need to Talk About Cosby Unravels the Man and the Monster
This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: For fifty years, Bill Cosby was America’s Dad, a trailblazer for Black culture on film and television, and comedy. I Spy, The Electric Company, The Cosby Show: All pioneering examples of Black excellence and a guiding light to generations of Black people who yearned to see themselves depicted on screen with grace and intelligence. And then, we learned about the man under those comfy sweaters: someone with credible accusations of sexual assault and rape of dozens of women. For standup comedian W. Kamau Bell, and many Black people across America who’d grown up revering Cosby, those accusations were a tough pill to swallow. What do you do when a man whom you’d idolized, someone who carries seismic importan...
Janet Jackson Weighs In On Michael Jackson Controversy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ron Galella, Ltd. / Getty Janet Jackson is notorious for keeping her private life, private–but now it seems as if the Pop Icon is ready to bear it all after releasing the trailer for her upcoming documentary, ‘Janet.’ Taking to Instagram, the triple threat, along with A&E and Lifetime unveiled a new three-minute trailer from episode one of the two-part docuseries, which is scheduled to begin airing on Jan. 28. Executive produced by Janet and her brother Randy Jackson, the four-hour film, which was shot over the course of the last five years, features interviews with a host of celebrities including Whoopi Goldberg, Mariah Carey, Regina King, Ciara, Janelle Monáe, Tyler Perry, Missy Elliott, Teyana Taylor, Samuel L. Jackson, and Paula Abdul — who’ve wit...
W. Kamau Bell Shares Trailer for New Documentary We Need to Talk About Cosby: Watch
W. Kamau Bell is tackling the legacy of Bill Cosby in a new documentary. Today, the director and comedian announced We Need to Talk About Cosby, a four-part docu-series set to hit Showtime next year, and shared the first trailer for the project. The series juggles the reputation Cosby built as “America’s Dad” with the horrific serial abuser he was behind closed doors. In its first trailer, Bell — known for similarly thoughtful content like the docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, the podcast Politically Re-Active, and the book Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book — attempts to reconcile these opposing personas as a comedian inspired by Cosby himself. “I am a child of Bill Cosby,” Bell says. “I’m a Black man and a comic born in the ’70s. Bill Cosby ha...
Disney Tried to Remove Swearing from The Beatles’ Get Back Documentary
Only The Beatles could get the owners of Mickey Mouse to bend the rules. Get Back, Peter Jackson‘s new eight-hour documentary on the recording of Let It Be, has been lauded as a fresh, insightful look at the world’s most famous band, but it almost didn’t include one of the miniseries’ most iconic touches: Disney+ tried to remove all instances of the group swearing from the film, until the band themselves pushed back. “Disney wanted to remove all the swearing and Ringo [Starr], Paul [McCartney], and Olivia [Harrison] said: ‘That’s how we spoke. That’s how we talked. That’s how we want the world to see us,’” Jackson told NME. While it certainly shows the Fab Four’s good moments, the docuseries — culled from over 55 hours of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s footage of the 1969 Let It Be sessions — also...
Carole Baskin Sues Netflix for Using Footage of Her In Tiger King 2
Chances are that during the early weeks of the pandemic, you spent more time with Carole Baskin than your best friends. But the big cat rights activist, who rose to national fame last year with Netflix‘s Tiger King, isn’t so keen on returning to the small screen: Baskin and her husband, Harold, are suing the streaming giant for using footage of her in the forthcoming sequel, Tiger King 2. According to Variety, the colorful couple filed suit in their Tampa hometown Monday (November 1st) against both Netflix and the show’s production company, Royal Goode Productions. In the documents, Baskin alleges that Royal Goode breached contract by continuing to use footage of her in Tiger King 2, as they had only legally agreed to appear in the docuseries’ first season. The Baskins also added that they...
Will Smith Admits He “Considered Suicide” in Trailer for Best Shape of My Life: Watch
Will Smith says he “considered suicide,” in the new trailer for the YouTube Originals unscripted series Best Shape of My Life. The first two episodes premiere on Monday, November 8th. Smith initially conceived of the project as a way to hold himself accountable as he tried to “lose 20 pounds in 20 weeks.” He said, “When I stared this show, I thought I was getting into the best shape of my life physically. But mentally, I was somewhere else. I ended up discovering a whole lotta hidden things about myself.” He added that the process of writing his memoir Will ended up “exposing my life and so many things that people don’t know about it.” Without revealing any juicy details, the trailer hints at these secrets in a dinner table scene as Smith addresses his family. “That was...
Will Smith Teams Up with Disney+ To Explore the World in ‘Welcome To Earth’ Docuseries
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kyle Christy / National Geographic for Disney+ Will Smith is coming back to your TV screen, but this time it’s to explore Mother Earth as a part of the new Disney+ docuseries, ‘Welcome to Earth.’ In the newly released trailer for their upcoming six-part original series hosted by Will Smith, National Geographic plans to take audiences on an unforgettable and visually stunning journey, as Smith goes on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure around the world to explore the Earth’s greatest wonders and reveal its most hidden secrets. Guided by an elite team of explorers who will help him get up close and personal with some of the most thrilling spectacles on the planet, the legendary actor explores everything the earth has to offer from volcanoes that roar in silence...
Damon Dash Announces ‘In Love For A Living’ Docuseries
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Hollywood To You/Star Max / Getty Damon Dash has continued to find new ways to bring his well-heeled business savvy from his days as a Roc-A-Fella executive to helming various brands of his own. In a new report, the Harlem, N.Y. native has shared details of a new docuseries and struck down his past depictions in reality television. In an exclusive report from Deadline, Dash will be making a re-entry in the television space by way of a new docuseries titled In Love For A Living. Deadline has more: Dash told Deadline, “I’ve been on a couple of shows. I was on Growing Up Hip Hop and a couple of other ones with BET and VH1, and I never really liked the way the narrator portrayed me or the way we were projected and I wanted to just showcase the reality of what...
Hulu Shares First Trailer of Paul McCartney Docuseries with Rick Rubin: Watch
Though it’s been over 60 years since Paul McCartney joined the burgeoning rock ‘n’ roll band that would eventually become The Beatles, there’s still lots to uncover about his history as one of the world’s biggest rock stars. Later this month, Hulu is launching McCartney 3,2,1, an original six-part documentary series in which host Rick Rubin interviews the singer-songwriter about his life in music. Its first trailer has now been unveiled, with the series premiering on July 16th. Shot in black-and-white, the series’ trailer promises “untold stories,” “unheard music,” and “unforgettable memories,” although it will of course include plenty of familiar songs to warm Beatleheads’ hearts. The trailer alone is pretty profound, as Macca remembers his early days working with George Harrison, Ringo S...
