Deaf President Now!” filmmakers say the new documentary about 1988 protests at Gallaudet University can inspire young people who feel “they’re living in a tumultuous world.” ...

In March 1988, students of the world’s only Deaf university started a revolution that made national news. Now, the first film to document this historic uprising is screening on Apple TV+. At the same ...

The events depicted in “Deaf President Now!” — a documentary revisiting the 1988 protest by students at Gallaudet University that led to the selection of the school’s firs ...

It’s a loud scene – but there is no sound. The unlikely contrast is an intentional decision made by the creators of Deaf President Now!, an innovative and pioneering documentary about the ...

That’s not an unusual task for a board. What’s unusual is what happened next, as told in “Deaf President Now!” (streaming on Apple TV+). Directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim ...

There is a lot of protest, righteous anger and civil disobedience in “Deaf President Now!” Yet there is a small act of personal defiance in Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim’s documentary ...

Deaf President Now! (now streaming on Apple TV+) is easily a leading candidate for the best documentary of 2025. A collaborative directorial effort between documentary stalwart Davis Guggenheim ...

Variety spoke to DiMarco and Guggenheim ahead of the May 16 Apple+ debut of “Deaf President Now!” The film is told from a hearing and a Deaf point of view and liberally cuts between those two ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "The story of 'Deaf President Now!' was about so much more than just appointing a deaf president," DiMarco says. "It's more complex ...

A documentary revisits the protests at Gallaudet University, an institution for the deaf, that erupted in 1988 when the board appointed a hearing president.