“The Oldest Person in the World,” which premiered at Sundance, delves into the lives of supercentenarians.

Part of the storytelling process involved intertwining moments from filmmaker Sam Green’s personal life — the birth of his son, the death of his younger brother, a serious illness and conversations ...

Documentarian Sam Green has an obsession he can't quite explain: learning about the oldest living person in the world. It's a Guinness Book of World Records title that stands apart from others in that ...

Sundance: It turns out that centenarians don't make for the most riveting interview subjects, but Sam Green's film gleans a real poignancy from what they have to say. A heartfelt, wistful, and ...

Meet Ethel Caterham – born in 1909, when William Howard Taft was president and the Titanic was being planned. Today, at 115, she holds the Guinness World Record as Europe’s oldest person. Her life is ...

On his 70th birthday, in 1905, Mark Twain gave a speech about the secret to successful aging. (If 70 doesn’t sound aged to you, bear in mind that because of high infant-mortality rates, the average ...

Sometimes, It Helps to Look at Another Human’s FaceFor a movie so filled with death, The Oldest Person in the World is surprisingly, almost confrontationally life-affirming.

PARK CITY, Utah — It started with a birthday invitation. In the summer of 2015, filmmaker Sam Green, who’d just finished a documentary on Guinness World Records, read in the newspaper that the ...