Emily Buder
The Tale Is a Powerful, Messy Story About Abuse
At this year’s Sundance, Jennifer Fox’s film stood out for its harrowing exploration of the director’s own experience as a teenage girl.
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What It’s Like to Survive Being Shot by the Police
In a new short documentary, Leon Ford reflects on the trauma he experienced.
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Medical Research Council/The Atlantic ‘COVID-19 Is a Delirium Factory’
In a new documentary from The Atlantic, coronavirus survivors describe frightening experiences in the intensive-care unit.
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What Was Lost When SXSW Was Canceled
It’s okay to grieve the loss of a big opportunity, even during a pandemic.
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The Last True Hermit Was Alone for 27 Years
For nearly three decades, Christopher Knight lived undetected in the dense woods of Maine.
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‘My Boyfriend Died of COVID-19’
In Wuhan, a young woman and her fiancé’s dreams are shattered.
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What Social Distance Looks Like Across the World
People from more than 30 countries share joyous moments from their lives in quarantine.
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What Doctors Are Afraid Of
At the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers describe a new world of chaos, fear, and suffering.
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A Disturbing Look Inside an Italian Hospital
“Seeing people one step away from dying kills a little part of you.”
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What Misinformation Has to Do With Toilet Paper
In 1973, Johnny Carson spread an unsubstantiated rumor that sent America into a panic-buying frenzy.
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10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known
Quarantined Italians record messages to themselves 10 days ago, when the pandemic hadn’t yet killed 1,809 people and infected more than 24,000 across the country.
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The Voices of the Loneliness Epidemic
Young people from across the U.K. leave anonymous voicemails for the minister for loneliness.
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The Truth About Stalin’s Prison Camps
A harrowing account of one woman’s experience in the gulags illuminates a dark period of Russian history.
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The Daredevil Aviatrix That History Forgot
Bessie Coleman, the first female African American pilot, is remembered in a thrilling new documentary.
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The Embers of a Childhood Lost
In the aftermath of a devastating California wildfire, children sift through the ashes of their home—and memories.
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Ghost Stories Keep the Roma Alive
In the lush forests of Latvia, Roma families reflect on their identity and traditions by sharing ghost stories.
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Two Couples Tried a Group Marriage. It Didn’t Work.
In 1969, two “conventional” married couples conducted an unwieldy social experiment.
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The Ethical Folly of ‘Modern Witch-Burning’
When Mike Nayna uploaded a viral video of a hate-speech tirade, he thought he was being a Good Samaritan. Then, the narrative got out of his hands.
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The Subject of an Oscar-Nominated Documentary Starts a New Life
After five years in an underground hospital, a Syrian doctor is haunted by what she saw.
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The Absurd Theatrics of the Border Wall
At the U.S.-Mexico border, eight winning prototypes of Donald Trump’s design contest must withstand a durability test.
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In Duterte’s War on Drugs, Where Do All the Bodies Go?
In Manila, a group of young caretakers lives and works in a cemetery that's quickly being filled with victims of extrajudicial killings.
