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The famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked what she considered to be the earliest sign of the formation of human civilization. It wasn't evidence of toolmaking or farming, in her estimation, but the discovery of a human leg bone from many millennia ago – someone’s femur that had broken but…

Penny Lane is to direct Mrs. America, exploring the changing role of American womanhood through the Mrs. America Beauty Pageant’s half-century history. Anonymous Content, Fremantle and Spinning Nancy are behind the premium doc, which will move through the history of an event started by husband-and-wife team David and…

There's at least one music documentary premiering at TIFF where filmmaker and subject are not at odds: Listening to Kenny G. The popular saxophonist—the bestselling instrumentalist of all time—and director Penny Lane came by Deadline's TIFF Studio in Toronto with all the appearances of remaining on the best of terms…

EXCLUSIVE: Take That singer Gary Barlow is to double down on his lockdown Crooner Sessions by hosting a BBC One music entertainment pilot. Barlow has been dueting online with big names including Elton John, Robbie Williams, and Boy George during the coronavirus pandemic, but will now supersize the sessions in a BBC…

Quibi is teaming with Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, The Outsider, The Color Purple) for the docuseries What We Keep which will bring audiences into the homes of remarkable people and asks the singular question: "Of all that you own, what object means the most to you…