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What's going to win best picture at the 94th Academy Awards.

Rarely have past and present mingled in a documentary the way they do in “Descendant,” a nonfiction account of the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement.

A new documentary goes behind the walls of the deadly 1971 uprising. Attica filmmaker Stanley Nelson and former prisoner Arthur Harrison reflect on the five-day revolt, and its lasting legacy.

The Toronto International Film Festival is uniquely reliant on crowds, which has made its 2021 edition particularly challenging during the pandemic.

Another documentary, “Black Wall Street” is being distributed by Cineflix Productions, but no network has yet picked it up. She pitched her Tulsa massacre documentary to some networks nearly five years ago, but drew no interest because she believes the “gatekeepers” weren’t ready to welcome the story. The Oklahoma native said even her father — who is a pastor in Tulsa — never heard of the massacre until the late 1990s, when the Tulsa Race Riot Commission was formed. She interviewed the descendants of Greenwood residents and business owners in the PBS documentary "Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten," which airs May 31. ___Find AP's full coverage of the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre: https://apnews.com/hub/tulsa-race-massacreCopyright 2021 The Associated Press.

LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and a slew of networks are among those releasing documentaries based on the tragic backstory of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.