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Documentary filmmaker Dan Reed, whose work includes Michael Jackson doc “Leaving Neverland” and HBO’s recent “The Truth vs Alex Jones,” has found his calling in getting people to relive “the worst day in their life,” as he describes it.

As well as delving into subjects as grim as child sexual abuse (he won an Emmy and a BAFTA for “Leaving Neverland”) and the Sandy Hook massacre, he has made numerous documentaries about large-scale terror attacks including the Moscow theater hostage crisis of 2002, the 60-hour siege of Mumbai in 2008 and the Nairobi Westgate mall attack of 2013.

How does Reed manage to revisit some of the world’s most barbarous acts without succumbing to despair? By knowing that he is performing a vital role in bearing witness and relaying victims’ stories to the wider public. “I have this sort of mental barrier that gives me an alibi for being there and...

The new HBO documentary “Stopping the Steal” is set to premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 9 p.m. Et and takes viewers behind the scenes into the efforts by former President Trump to challenge the 2020 presidential election results. The film features interviews from former White House staff and appointees, including former Attorney General William Barr, as well as elected Republican officials in Arizona and Georgia. The Streamable recommends that you stream the doc with a 7-Day Free Trial of Max.

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Recounted in detail by former staff members of the Trump Administration, Republican political appointees, and elected state officials, “Stopping the Steal” tracks the evolution of the movement to discredit the American election starting as early...

Alex Jones is notorious for sharing conspiracy theories on his website, InfoWars. Immediately after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, he began questioning the truth about what really happened, claiming the tragedy was nothing more than a hoax. A new documentary, “The Truth vs. Alex Jones,” takes viewers inside the courtroom and reveals what occurred during Jones’ defamation lawsuits and trials. You can dive into “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” beginning on Tuesday, March 26. You can watch with a subscription to Max.

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In response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Alex Jones began spreading his own theories about the tragedy. He made bold claims, denying that the 26 murders actually happened and that it was all a government coverup.

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It’s officially spring, which means just one thing to sports fans not distracted by the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments: baseball is here! The MLB’s 2024 Opening Day is on Thursday, March 28, and every team in the league will be in action to help kick the season off in style.

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Nominees, the Lifetime Achievement honoree and host information will be announced in the coming weeks.

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HBO’s released the official trailer for The Truth vs. Alex Jones, a documentary that takes an in-depth look at Alex Jones’ disturbing lies about the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and how family members of the murdered school children fought back. The documentary, directed by BAFTA and Emmy winner Dan Reed (Leaving Neverland), will premiere on HBO on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Among those contributing to the documentary are Sandy Hook parents Mark Barden, Alissa and Robbie Parker, Neil Heslin, Scarlett Lewis, Nicole Hockley, Lenny Pozner, and Veronique de la Rosa. The documentary also features attorneys Mark Bankston, Chris Mattei, Wesley Ball, and Andino Reyna as well as Connecticut State Police officer Daniel Jewiss.

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HBO released the following description of The Truth vs. Alex Jones:

“Filmed over four years with unprecedented access, The Truth vs. Alex Jones...

HBO has released the first trailer (below) for its upcoming documentary chronicling the rise and fall of one of the most controversial and disgraced voices in American media: Alex Jones.

In The Truth vs. Alex Jones, filmmaker Dan Reed (Leaving Neverland, Four Hours at the Capitol) shows how Jones built an empire peddling supplements to listeners of his popular InfoWars radio show and then fueled his own collapse by promoting a conspiracy theory that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was staged and its shattered parents were actors.

“With his embrace of Sandy Hook hoaxer theories, Jones discovered that a high-octane mix of conspiracy and politics could set his audience on fire like never before, turbocharging his online supplements business,” Reed said in a statement. “The parents of the children murdered at Sandy Hook confronted Jones in a court of law and exposed his lies. My documentary is about this...

British director Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”) spent four years filming Sandy Hook Elementary parents as they attempt to hold Alex Jones — the infamous talk-news conspiracist guru of InfoWars — accountable for the lies he spread about their children’s murders in 2012. The result is the HBO documentary “The Truth vs. Alex Jones.”

Bringing Jones to trial involved years of effort by the grieving parents and their legal teams and culminated in two jury trials for damages in Texas and Connecticut. The outcome was America’s biggest-ever defamation verdict, with nearly $1.5 billion awarded by juries in the two states to the families, Not surprisingly Jones, who called the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax and was accused of using the tragedy to help sell dietary supplement on his site, subsequently declared bankruptcy.

Variety spoke to Reed ahead of “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” SXSW world premiere on March 11.

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