Nov 22, 2023

Docn' is back! This lost episode was taped two years ago upon the holiday season release of Peter Jackson's Get Back. 

Divided into thirds and running nearly eight hours, Get Back is a look at the beginning of the end of the Beatles. The documentary is doubly successful: first, it complicates and challenges the...

Jan 3, 2022

Canadian director and writer Dean DeBlois has a film oeuvre that reveals two passions: one, for bringing fantastical creatures to life via animation (Lilo & Stitch, 2002 and How to Train Your Dragon, 2010) and two, for the music of Icelandic band Sigur Rós, fronted by Jon Thor Birgisson (a.k.a. Jonsi), who DeBlois...

Nov 24, 2021

The Woodstock Festival held in 1969 over three days in August would not be fated as a short and mostly sweet gathering around music and instead bears the historical weight of a sprawling and chaotic youth bacchanal that defines how we think about the sixties. But how well do we remember Woodstock itself? Thanks to a...

Nov 9, 2021

This very special episode of Docn' has three big firsts - it's our first episode without co-host Carolyn on the microphone (boo), our first episode featuring a guest (yay) and our first discussion of a movie currently out in theaters (ambivalent noise).

We are joined by Managing Director of the Texas Archive of the...

Oct 25, 2021

Behind the Music was on for seventeen years and chronicled a dizzying amount of musicians on the sorta music-centric channel VH1. While episodes of the show are quite concise and not proper 'documentaries', we really couldn't avoid addressing this behemoth of very appropriate content.

Armed with breakthrough technology...