The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time
By Elizabeth Jackson, Stacker News
AND Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 5/5/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
Great documentaries often give access and illumination to stories that would otherwise go untold. The subject of a great documentary can be anything from a single individual s life to a broader political event, and the effect of the films can be anything from uplifting to devastating.
To celebrate the genre, Stacker created a ranking of the top 100 documentaries of all time by leveraging data on all documentary movies to create a Stacker score that serves as a weighted index split evenly between IMDb and Metacritic scores. To qualify, the film had to be listed as a documentary on IMDb, have a Metascore, and have at least 1,000 IMDb user votes. Ties were broken by Metascore and further ties were broken by votes. Documentary TV series were not included.
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Purple Panda and Donkey Hodie are two characters from the series “Donkey Hodie.” (Courtesy of Fred Rogers Productions)
In 2018, David and Adam Rudman began work on their latest project, “Donkey Hodie.”
Truth is, Fred Rogers came up with the original idea decades prior.
After three years of hard work – with plenty of starts and stops due to the pandemic – the PBS Kids series will premiere at 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 3, on New Mexico PBS. It will rebroadcast more than a dozen times through June 26.
The series is from Fred Rogers Productions, home of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and Spiffy Pictures.
It is inspired by the funny, quirky side of beloved children’s TV pioneer Rogers, the imaginative puppet series for preschoolers follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie, a “can-do” little yellow donkey with a bright magenta mane – and the granddaughter of the original Donk
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Even after the director says, “Cut!,” sometimes puppeteers stay in character.
“I said all my lines right!” said Donkey Hodie, as performed and voiced by former Point Park University student Haley Jenkins. And she said it in Donkey’s voice.
“It’s a little too Little Caesars,” she said in Duck Duck’s voice between takes before cameras rolled again with a single “thank you” uttered.
It was just another day on the set of “Donkey Hodie,” a puppet show spin-off of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” for PBS Kids that debuts at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Monday on WQED-TV.