“This here would be my older brother Quentin. And last year, he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of early-onset birdwatcher.” This is Owen, talking in Listers: A glimpse into extreme ...

Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit The Residence, was a birder, as is Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent character in ...

Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...

Quentin Reiser's hockey hair and fashion choices are your first clue that the film's protagonists have their own approach to birding; (screenshot/ A good slice-of-life documentary highlights a certain ...

Joe Clarke wanted to tell a great wrestling story. So he decided to do a documentary on one of the sport’s greatest storytellers. The award-winning filmmaker had already drawn rave reviews from his ...

Bob Odenkirk has had quite the career, from classic sketches on Saturday Night Live to his award-winning performance as Saul Goodman on the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul. But Odenkirk now ...

It’s telling that so many incisive, vital documentaries on journalism and media have been produced in the past half-dozen years. The Fourth Estate is under attack on many fronts, from the deleterious ...

Italy is planning the world's longest bridge as China is building the highest. The future of transportation took shape on two continents this week as Italy and China announced bridges that would ...

“We’re kind of like the nerds of action sports.” Doing tricks on air-powered pogo sticks is a sport — and a rather extreme one at that. Brut filmmaker Léo Hamelin went to the world championships of ...