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The documentary filmmaker who testified last week about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol said on Sunday that he and his crew were aware they had filmed “multiple crimes” when they followed the far-right militia Proud Boys during the rioting for a documentary about division in America. Nick Quested told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that he saw crimes “on the steps of the Capitol” and “inside the Capitol.” After filming the events of Jan. 6, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn certification of the 2020 election, Quested...

Oscar-nominated documentarian Tim Hetherington (pictured), who died earlier this year, is to become the subject of a documentary himself, with HBO commissioning his friend and Restrepo co-director Sebastian Junger to make a special focusing on his life and work, ...snip The second project in the works, Battle Company, will be a 3 x 60-minute series acting as a sequel of sorts to Restrepo. The program will comprise footage shot by Junger and Hetherington in Afghanistan, of which “around 95%” will be previously unaired. “The focus will be on the characters at [Outpost] Restrepo, rather than the troops and the deployment,”...

Excerpt - British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops.