Dignity may be out of Marion Barry’s reach at this point, but documentary makers Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer manage to invest him with a respectable sense of tragedy. A defiant civil rights ...

"The Nine Lives of Marion Barry" Directed by Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer Streaming via Hulu To many, Marion Barry, the recently deceased longtime mayor of Washington, D.C., is misunderstood—a ...

Also consulting: Dana Flow and Toby Oppenheimer, who made the 2009 documentary "The Nine Lives of Marion Barry." Barry initially served as mayor of D.C. -- he was the city's second mayor -- from 1979 ...

It started with an arrest, as it often does. There was a woman involved, as there usually is. And there were the denials, controversial behavior by the police and extraordinary news conferences that ...