The Iran Hostage Crisis takes center stage in Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple's new documentary "Desert One," a film that aims to recognize the heroism of the men who undertook a failed mission ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The United States’ failed 1980 rescue mission in Iran is coming to a screen near you. On Friday, Greenwich Entertainment released Desert One, a new documentary from ...

Picking up where Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning “Argo” left off, the riveting “Desert One” focuses on the members of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Tehran who weren’t so lucky. There were 52 of them, all ...

In 'Desert One,' Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple ('American Dream') revisits the botched 1980 Delta Force operation that was meant to resolve the Iran hostage crisis. By Jordan Mintzer A ...

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the North American theatrical and select home entertainment rights for Barbara Kopple’s documentary Desert One. Greenwich will release Desert One on a ...

Bad outcomes seldom make for good nonfiction. We prefer tales of triumph, breakthroughs, success against steep odds, unless the point is assigning blame, which isn’t Ms. Kopple’s intent. What makes ...

September 11, 2001, was the day that changed our world — but really, the day that changed our world was April 24, 1980. That was when the United States, under the leadership of President Jimmy Carter, ...

Filmmaker Barbara Kopple won Oscars for the intimate documentaries about striking workers, "Harlan County, USA" and "American Dream." Now she looks to a story that has a more global scope, "Desert One ...

DESTIN — After two previous unsuccessful attempts, there is now a documentary film, "Desert One," that tells the story of Operation Eagle Claw, the unsuccessful 1980 attempt to rescue 52 American ...

So, who’s up for a movie history lesson? No, not about the history of cinema, but rather a look back at a time that often feels not that long ago, but with others, it may be “olden days”. Now don’t ...