Despite being a tad too long and a trifle repetitive, the documentary essay “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” from American helmer Penny Lane is a thought-provoking personal investigation into a ...

When documentary filmmaker Penny Lane chose to donate a kidney to a stranger — the dramatic crux of her new “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” — one can’t help but wonder whether the movie idea came ...

The largest charitable gift in the history of the State of Israel was in 2016: a $500 million donation to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. President Isaac Herzog called it “unprecedented.” It ...

An exploration of the science, history and ethics of organ donation in the context of the filmmaker's kidney donation. For the record, Lane thought about donating a kidney long before she thought of ...