Did you know elections and vote-counting happen in places other than Minnesota? It’s true! Take, for example, India, where the monthlong (!) election just came to an end, and the results are coming in at this moment. Approximately a gigabyte of the country’s 700 million eligible voters went to the polls, which all used electronic voting machines, and the potential debacle seems to have gone off without any disasters, civil wars, coups, terrorism, piracy, PUMAs, or any discussion of gay marriage whatsoever. So, score one for Democracy! UPDATE: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia & Rahul Gandhi’s Congress Party win big! MORE »

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill T. Jones, Vernon Jordan, Toni Morrison, Chris Rock, Al Sharpton and Slash are some of the rich, famous and powerful black Americans who tell their tales in The Black List, by NYT film critic Elvis Mitchell and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Watch it tonight on HBO, part of the cable channel’s summer documentary series. Grab the HBO Documentary Films Series widget and stay up to date on the complete series.

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Roman Polanski has a weirder, richer and much more fun life than, say, you do. But he’s also been on the run from American Justice since 1978, when he was about to be convicted for raping a 13-year-old girl, who he was shooting for Vogue, in Jack Nicholson’s house. Also, he made Chinatown. You can see Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired tonight on HBO, as part of the channel’s summer documentary series. Grab the HBO Documentary Films Series widget and stay up to date on the complete series.