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Chris Marker and the Art of Collaboration: ‘Le Joli Mai’ and ‘Far from Vietnam’
Docs In Theaters: ‘Justin Bieber’s Believe’
The 13 Best Documentaries of 2013
The ‘Up’ Series and ‘Caesar Must Die’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
10 Best Music Documentaries of the Year According to the Guy Who Sees Them All
Docs In Theaters: ‘The New Rijksmuseum’ Parts 1 and 2
‘The Realness’ Episode 13: ‘The Crash Reel’
4 Great Disney History Films To Watch Now
‘The Act of Killing’ Voted the Best Documentary of 2013 in Inaugural Nonfics Critics Poll
‘Roger and Me’ and ‘Decasia’ Added to National Film Registry
Shots From the Canon #15: ‘An Injury to One’ (Travis Wilkerson, 2002)
’20 Feet From Stardom’ and ‘Becoming Santa’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, All American Rejects and More Contend for Original Song Oscar
The 5 Must-See Music Documentaries of 2013
Docs In Theaters: ‘The Crash Reel,’ ‘Nuclear Nation,’ ‘Two Lessons,’ ‘Liv & Ingmar’ and More
‘The Realness’ Episode 12: The 2013 Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary Feature
What Might Have Been Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Documentary of 2013?
Watch a Short Documentary On the Making of Michel Gondry’s ‘Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?’
Shots From the Canon #14: ‘Lessons of Darkness’ (Werner Herzog, 1992)
The ABCs of Labeling Your Documentary a Rhyme of “Documentary”
Docs In Theaters: ‘Lenny Cooke,’ ‘Tim’s Vermeer,’ ‘Unhung Hero’ and More
The Doc Option: 2 Great Appalachia Docs You Need To Watch
Guide to All the Sundance 2014 Documentary Competition Titles, With Trailers Where Available
Why This Year’s Doc Oscar Shortlist Was the Most Predictable Yet, And Why the Nominees Won’t Be
Bruce Weber Collection and ‘Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
‘The Act of Killing’ and ‘Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings’ Win Gotham Awards
‘The Punk Singer’ Makes a Killing With Weekend’s Best Per-Screen Average for a Documentary
Attention Filmmakers and Critics: Nonfics Wants Your Best Docs of 2013 Lists!
Why Documentaries Make the Greatest Gifts
Shots From the Canon #13: ‘Streetwise’ (Martin Bell, 1984)
Barenaked Ladies Cancel SeaWorld Concert Because of ‘Blackfish’
Docs In Theaters: ‘The Punk Singer,’ ‘The End of Time,’ ‘The Unbelievers’ and More
The Doc Option: Before ‘Philomena’ Watch ‘A Girl Like Her’
‘The Square,’ and ‘Let the Fire Burn’ Among Indie Spirit Nominees in Documentary Categories
‘Le Joli Mai’ and ‘Medora’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
Cinema Eye Honors Announce Josh Fox as Hell Yeah! Prize Winner and Announce 2013 Heterodox Nominees
‘Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?’ is All Smiles With $10K Per-Screen Average
Interview: Michel Gondry On How Documentary Filmmaking Has Influenced His Narrative Work
Shots From the Canon #12: ‘Manufacturing Consent’ (Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, 1992)
‘Tiny: A Story About Living Small’ Review
5 Favorite Documentaries Recommended By Michel Gondry
Docs In Theaters: ‘Bettie Page Reveals All,’ ‘Narco Cultura,’ ‘Weekend of a Champion’ and More
‘Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?’ Review
The Doc Option: Instead of ‘Delivery Man,’ Watch ‘Donor Unknown’
Steve Coogan Talks Nonfiction Drama ‘Philomena’ and Altering Fact for Greater Truth
Win a Digital Copy of the Must-Have New Book ‘Tell Me Something: Documentary Filmmakers’
‘The Last of the Unjust’ Trailer
‘Informant,’ ‘Passione’ and ‘Toxic Hot Seat’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
Exclusive: Poster for ‘American Arab’ Shows the World Trade Center as the Backdrop for Its Story
Box Office: ‘Muscle Shoals’ Proves To Be a Steady Sleeper By Slowly Scooping Half a Million Dollars
RIP: ‘Manufacturing Consent’ Director Peter Wintonick (1953–2013)
Shots From the Canon #11: The ‘Koker’ Trilogy (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987–1994)
‘Justin Bieber’s Believe’ Trailer
Docs In Theaters: ‘12–12–12,’ ‘Dear Mr. Watterson,’ ‘Lion Ark,’ ‘Pad Yatra’ and More
The Doc Option: Instead of ‘All is Lost,’ Watch ‘Deep Water’
Watch: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Smile’
‘The Act of Killing’ Wins 2013 PUMA Impact Award for Its “Brave Brilliance”
‘The Realness’ Episode 11: ‘Style Wars’ and DOC NYC Picks
‘Electoral Dysfunction’ Review
AFI Fest 2013: ‘Charlie Victor Romeo’ Review
Watch Cinema Eye Honor Nominees At Home Via This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
‘The Armstrong Lie’ Takes the Metaphoric Yellow Jersey By Finishing First for Doc Debuts
Shots From the Canon #10: ‘The Belovs’ (Viktor Kossakovsky, 1994)
Docs In Theaters: ‘The Armstrong Lie,’ ‘Medora,’ ‘At Berkeley,’ ‘Approved for Adoption’ and More
‘Momo’ Poster Premiere: This Gangster Loomed Over Hollywood and The White House
Snow, Sex Chairs and the Hadron Collider: The Films of Peter Mettler
‘The Realness’ Episode 10: ‘The War Room’ and ‘Caucus’
Director Mike Newman Shares 5 Reasons He Had to Make the Buckeye Nation Documentary ‘Nuts’
‘Cutie and the Boxer’ and ‘The Act of Killing’ Lead 7th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nominees
The Doc Option: Watch ‘How to Survive a Plague’
Watch This Documentary Short in Which Disney’s Seven Dwarfs Teach Us About Malaria
‘This Is Not a Film’ and ‘¡Vivan Las Antipodas!’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
Slavoj Žižek Draws Biggest Doc Debut Crowd of the Weekend For ‘The Pervert’s Guide to the Galaxy’
Shots From the Canon #9: ‘Man of Aran’ (Robert J. Flaherty, 1934)
Docs In Theaters: ‘Running From Crazy,’ ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology,’ ‘Casting By’ and More
‘The Realness’ Episode 9: ‘These Birds Walk’
‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’ Review
Nonfics Seeks Passionate Writers on Documentary Cinema and Television
‘Let the Fire Burn’ Leads Nominees for 2013 IDA Documentary Awards
‘Cutie and the Boxer,’ ‘Foreign Parts’ and ‘Lou Reed’s Berlin’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
‘Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky’ Trailer
Box Office: If ‘Bad Grandpa’ Qualifies It Is Now the Top-Grossing Doc of the Year
‘The Gatekeepers’ TV Series to Have U.S. Premiere at NYC’s Other Israel Film Festival
Which Oscar Nominees for Documentary Feature Deserve More Lasting Recognition?
Shots From the Canon #8: ‘How to Live in the German Federal Republic’ (Harun Farocki, 1990)
‘The Realness’ Episode 8: ‘The Square’ and ‘Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment’
Docs In Theaters: ‘The Square,’ ‘Caucus,’ ‘Spinning Plates,’ ‘I Am Divine,’ ‘When I Walk’ and More
2013 Gotham Award Documentary Nominees Include ‘The Act of Killing’ and ‘Our Nixon’
Who Are the Best Nonfiction Film Characters of 2013?
‘Leviathan’ and ‘Far Out Isn’t Far Enough’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
Watch: POV’s DocChat Panel On Documentary Criticism
Is ‘Mediastan’ Really the Best Film to See About WikiLeaks?
Box Office: Self-Distributed ‘American Promise’ Makes Good With Top Doc Screen Average
‘Political Bodies’ Began With a Hunch About Virginia’s “War on Women”
Shots From the Canon #7: ‘The Battle of Chile’ (Patricio Guzmán, 1973–1979)
Docs In Theaters: ‘American Promise,’ ‘Birth of the Living Dead,’ ‘Seduced and Abandoned’ and More
Exclusive: Poster for Frederick Wiseman’s ‘At Berkeley’ Welcomes You At the Gates of a Masterpiece
‘Enzo Avitabile: Music Life’ Review
‘The Realness’ Episode 7: New York Film Festival and ‘Blood Brother’
The Doc Option: Instead of ‘The Fifth Estate’ Watch ‘We Steal Secrets’
12 Documentaries That Spawned TV Series
‘Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle’ Tops This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
Box Office: ‘God Loves Uganda’ Tops New Releases as ‘Inequality for All’ Continues to Rise
City Symphony Primer: 3 Essential Films to Watch Now
The Doc Option: Before ‘Captain Phillips’ Watch ‘Stolen Seas’
Shots From the Canon #6: ‘Edvard Munch’ (Peter Watkins, 1974)
Docs In Theaters: ‘God Loves Uganda,’ ‘Broadway Idiot,’ ‘AKA Doc Pomus,’ ‘Design Is One’ and More
Guide to the 8 Documentary Shorts Named to 2013 Oscar Shortlist
Should Documentaries Provide a Platform for the Purely Evil?
‘Herman’s House’ and ‘Mea Maxima Culpa’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
‘Particle Fever’ Announces Distribution Plans as Higgs Boson Discovery Wins Nobel Prize
Box Office: ‘Linsanity’ Slam Dunks With Best Documentary Average of the Weekend
A Lesson in Historical Storytelling from ‘Touching the Void’ and ‘The Summit’
RIP: Herman Wallace (1941–2013)
Docs In Theaters: ‘The Summit,’ ‘Linsanity,’ ‘A River Changes Course,’ ‘Bridegroom’ and More
The Doc Option: Before Seeing ‘Gravity,’ Listen to These True Stories About Spacewalks Gone Wrong
‘The Empire Project’: One of the Best Parts of the 2013 New York Film Festival is Available Online
‘A River Changes Course’ Review
Watch This Short: Jonas and Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘The Shock Doctrine’
‘Herman’s House’ and ‘Angola 3’ Update: Herman Wallace Freed After 41 Years in Solitary Confinement
Shots From the Canon #5: ‘The Century of the Self’ (Adam Curtis, 2002)
‘Blackfish’ Update: SeaWorld Looking Into “Treadmills” for Killer Whales
‘Saving Face,’ ‘The Interrupters’ and ‘The Loving Story’ Among Winners at the 2013 News & Doc Emmys
‘Rich Hill’ Looks Like a Strong Candidate for the Best Documentary of 2014
‘Full Battle Rattle’ and ‘A Fierce Green Fire’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks
Box Office: ‘Metallica’ and ‘Muscle Shoals’ Open Strongly But Kirk Cameron Wins the Week
Charles Ferguson and CNN Films Cancel Hillary Clinton Documentary
Québec’s Cinéma Direct Primer: What Films to Watch Now
‘Los Angeles Plays Itself’ 10th Anniversary Remastered Edition Review
The Doc Option: Instead of ‘Rush’ Watch ‘Senna’
Federal Judge Maintains Journalistic Protection for Ken Burns and ‘The Central Park Five’
Shots From the Canon #4: ‘Tokyo Olympiad’ (Kon Ichikawa, 1965)
‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’ is Named Best Film By Fantastic Fest Audience
RIP: Canadian Direct Cinema Pioneer Michel Brault (1928–2013)
‘Generation Iron’ Debuts With Year’s Best Opening For a Non-Concert Doc
LEGO Documentary In the Works From Daniel Junge and Kief Davidson
‘Thisisstuttering’ Promises to Be a Found-Footage Film of Another Kind
‘Blue Caprice’ Reminds Us Why We Need a Documentary About the DC Snipers
The Doc Option: Instead of ‘Battle of the Year’ Watch ‘Planet B-Boy’
Shots From the Canon #3: Gianfranco Rosi’s ‘Below Sea Level’
‘The Realness’ Episode 6: ‘The Act of Killing’
‘GMO OMG’ is a Single-Screen Hit With $15K Opening
‘The East’ and ‘Sound of My Voice’ Writer-Director Zal Batmanglij Shares His Top 10 Documentaries
New Chinese Documentary Primer: What Films to Watch Now
‘Mea Maxima Culpa’ and ‘Deadliest Catch’ Are Big Nonfiction Winners at 2013 Creative Arts Emmys
TIFF 2013: Awards Go to ‘The Square’ and ‘When Jews Were Funny’
Shots From the Canon #2: Frederick Wiseman’s ‘The Store’ (1983)
RIP: ‘Fidel’ and ‘Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang’ Director Saul Landau (1936–2013)
‘Ukraine Is Not a Brothel’ Trailer
Watch Alex Winter’s Napster Doc ‘Downloaded’ Free
Documentary Classics: ‘The Way Things Go’
Watch: New Steve James Short ‘A Place Called Pluto’ on Early Stages of Alzheimer’s
‘The Story of Film’ With ‘Nanook of the North’ Tops This Week’s Home Viewing Picks
Joe Berlinger’s ‘HANK: Five Years From the Brink’ to Premiere Exclusively on Netflix Next Week
Years Later, Nonfiction Cinema Makes and Breaks Our Mythology of 9/11
‘Burt’s Buzz’ Goes to FilmBuff for Early 2014 Theatrical and VOD Release
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson Shares His Top 10 Documentaries
Updated: ‘Salinger’ Opens With Best Per-Screen Average of the Weekend for $87K Total
‘Sacro GRA’ is the First Documentary to Win Top Honors at the Venice Film Festival
Watch Thom Andersen’s ‘Los Angeles Plays Itself’ On Its 10th Anniversary
Mark Cousins Talks About ‘A Story of Children and Film’ and the Best Documentaries About Kids
HBO Documentary Films Fall Season Trailer
‘Out of the Clear Blue Sky’ Review
‘Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve’ Review
‘99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film’ Review
‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Subject Tim Jenison On How the Film Blows the Lid Off Art History
James Franco, BDSM and Sexual Performance
Stunning ‘Tough Bond’ is Among the Contenders in the 2013 New Orleans Film Festival Doc Competition
‘The Human Experiment’ Trailer
Shots From the Canon #1: ‘News From Home’
TIFF 2013: First Look at ‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Features Penn Jillette Setting Up the Premise
Welcome to Nonfics! A Letter From the Editor
Centennial Tribute to Helen Levitt: The Most Important Documentary Filmmaker You Haven’t Heard Of
Will Jon M. Chu’s New Justin Bieber Doc Be as Great as ‘Never Say Never’?
‘Out of the Clear Blue Sky’ Trailer
Documentary Classics: ‘When We Were Kings’
10 Films We’re Most Excited About at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
‘Stories We Tell’ Tops This Week’s Home Viewing Picks
‘Jay-Z: Made in America’ Trailer
‘The Big Flip’ Will Explore Women Breadwinners and Stay At Home Dads
Doc Box Office: ‘One Direction: This Is Us’ is #1 Movie Overall
‘Herb and Dorothy 50×50’ Trailer
Variance Films to Release ‘God Loves Uganda’ on October 11
‘One Direction: This Is Us’ Review
Richard Linklater and James Benning Doc Picked Up By FilmBuff Ahead of Venice Premiere
Michael Fassbender-Narrated Formula One Film Hits iTunes Exclusively October 1
‘The Trials of Muhammad Ali’ Review
‘The Realness’ Episode 5: The Top 5 Docs of 2013 (So Far)
‘The Realness’ Episode 4: ’20 Feet From Stardom’ and Backup Singers
Spoilers We Tell: Are Documentary Revelations Not Sacred?
British Rhythm & Blues to See Its Start in ‘Suburban Steps to Rockland’
‘The Realness’ Episode 3: A Discussion of Les Blank
Lance Armstrong Doc ‘The Armstrong Lie’ Opens November 8
‘Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve’ Trailer
Watch ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Behind the Scenes Short Film By Bill and Turner Ross
‘The Realness’ Episode 1: ‘Room 237’ and Humor in Documentary
‘Terms and Conditions May Apply’ Trailer