Obit
Genre: Documentary
Actor: William McDonald, Bruce Weber, Margalit Fox
Director: Vanessa Gould
Country: United States
Quality: HD
Duration: 1h 33m
Release: 2017
Tags: newspaper, journalism, celebrity
IMDb: 7.3/10
At The New York Times, obituary writers and editors face the daily challenge of summing up a public figure’s life in just a few hundred words. This documentary offers a rare look at their routines, craft, and pressures as they decide how to chronicle lives after death, balancing journalistic precision with the strange joys and existential weight of writing on the front lines of history.
