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‘The Act of Killing’ Director’s Cut and ‘Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks

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

‘Mitt’ Trailer

‘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

‘Two Lessons’ Review

The 5 Must-See Music Documentaries of 2013

Docs In Theaters: ‘The Crash Reel,’ ‘Nuclear Nation,’ ‘Two Lessons,’ ‘Liv & Ingmar’ and More

‘The Crash Reel’ Review

‘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)

‘Grey Gardens’ on Criterion Blu-ray, ‘Far From Vietnam’ and ‘Dirty Wars’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks

The ABCs of Labeling Your Documentary a Rhyme of “Documentary”

Docs In Theaters: ‘Lenny Cooke,’ ‘Tim’s Vermeer,’ ‘Unhung Hero’ and More

‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Review

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

Oscar Shortlist for Documentary Feature Includes ‘Cutie and the Boxer,’ ‘Stories We Tell’ and 13 Others

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

‘Tim’s Vermeer,’ ‘The Act of Killing’ and ‘Sound City’ Among 10 Satellite Nominees for Best Documentary

Shots From the Canon #13: ‘Streetwise’ (Martin Bell, 1984)

Barenaked Ladies Cancel SeaWorld Concert Because of ‘Blackfish’

‘Cousin Jules’ Review

Docs In Theaters: ‘The Punk Singer,’ ‘The End of Time,’ ‘The Unbelievers’ and More

‘The Punk Singer’ Review

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

‘Touba’ Review

5 Favorite Documentaries Recommended By Michel Gondry

Docs In Theaters: ‘Bettie Page Reveals All,’ ‘Narco Cultura,’ ‘Weekend of a Champion’ and More

‘Narco Cultura’ Review

‘Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?’ Review

‘White Gold’ Review

The Doc Option: Instead of ‘Delivery Man,’ Watch ‘Donor Unknown’

‘American Arab’ Trailer

‘Town Hall’ Review

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

‘Toxic Hot Seat’ Review

‘Hungry’ Review

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)

‘Rebel Music’ Review

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

‘Dear Mr. Watterson’ Review

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

Director Zachary Roberts Shares the Ups and Downs of Documenting a School Shooting His Own Brother Committed in ‘Hope’

‘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)

‘The Armstrong Lie’ Review

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

‘At Berkeley’ Review

‘Caucus’ Review

Snow, Sex Chairs and the Hadron Collider: The Films of Peter Mettler

‘People of a Feather’ Review

‘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’

‘These Birds Walk’ Review

‘Sweet Dreams’ Review

‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’ Review

‘Musicwood’ 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

‘Maidentrip’ 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

‘I Am Divine’ Review

‘When I Walk’ Review

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

‘Blackfish’ Update: SeaWorld Gives Detailed Response Ahead of CNN Premiere and Claims Possible Record Attendance in 2013

‘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

‘Blood Brother’ Review

‘Enzo Avitabile: Music Life’ Review

‘The Realness’ Episode 7: New York Film Festival and ‘Blood Brother’

‘The Human Scale’ Review

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

‘Dear Mr. Watterson’ Trailer

‘Medora’ Trailer

Guide to the 8 Documentary Shorts Named to 2013 Oscar Shortlist

‘Burning Bush’ Review

‘Abuse of Weakness’ Review

‘Broadway Idiot’ Interview: Director Doug Hamilton on Documenting Billie Joe Armstrong’s Personal Journey

‘Milius’ Trailer

Should Documentaries Provide a Platform for the Purely Evil?

NYFF 2013: ‘Afternoon of a Faun’ Interview: Director Nancy Buirski on Crafting a Narrative from the Ephemeral Beauty of an Artist

‘Blood Brother’ Trailer

‘Afternoon of a Faun’ Review

‘American Promise’ Review

‘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’

‘The Armstrong Lie’ Trailer

RIP: Herman Wallace (1941–2013)

‘Linsanity’ Review

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

‘The Summit’ Review

Watch This Short: Jonas and Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘The Shock Doctrine’

‘Valentine Road’ Interview: Director Marta Cunningham on the Complexity of a Double-Issue Film and Bearing Witness for the Intolerant

‘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

‘Inequality for All’ Review

The Doc Option: Instead of ‘Rush’ Watch ‘Senna’

Docs In Theaters: ‘Muscle Shoals,’ ‘Inequality for All,’ ‘The Network’ and ‘Metallica Through the Never’

Laura Poitras’s Op-Doc, a ‘Frontline’ Episode and Two Films by Eva Weber Are Shorts Finalists for the 2014 Cinema Eye Honors

Federal Judge Maintains Journalistic Protection for Ken Burns and ‘The Central Park Five’

Shots From the Canon #4: ‘Tokyo Olympiad’ (Kon Ichikawa, 1965)

Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras and Geralyn Dreyfous Named Special Honorees for 2013 IDA Documentary Awards

‘The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear’ and ‘Call Me Kuchu’ Top This Week’s Nonfics Home Picks

‘Crossett’ Trailer

‘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’

‘After Tiller’ Review

Shots From the Canon #3: Gianfranco Rosi’s ‘Below Sea Level’

‘The Realness’ Episode 6: ‘The Act of Killing’

‘99% — The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film’ Television Premiere Tops This Week’s Home Viewing Picks

‘When Jews Were Funny’ Review

‘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’

‘Herb & Dorothy 50×50’ Review

TIFF 2013: Chris Jordan on ‘Midway,’ Changing Global Consciousness, Sharing the Message of the Albatross and Aestheticizing Horror

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

‘The Network’ Trailer

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

‘Fire in the Blood’ Review

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

Watch a Behind-The-Scenes Preview of Vince Vaughn and Glenn Beck’s Documentary Competition Reality Series

‘Red Obsession’ 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

September is “Fix This Planet” Month at SundanceNow’s Doc Club; Films Include Must-See ‘Windfall’ and ‘Crude’

Variance Films to Release ‘God Loves Uganda’ on October 11

Stranger Than Fiction Fall 2013 Season Includes Preview of ‘Muscle Shoals’ and Classic Pick ‘Capturing the Friedmans’

‘One Direction: This Is Us’ Review

‘Linsanity’ Trailer

Richard Linklater and James Benning Doc Picked Up By FilmBuff Ahead of Venice Premiere

Could ‘American Made Movie’ Change This Country? Directors Vincent Vittorio and Nathaniel Thomas McGill Believe So

‘Generation Iron’ Trailer

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 2: ‘Free Angela and All Political Prisoners’ and Narrative Remakes of Documentaries

‘Muscle Shoals’ Trailer

‘The Realness’ Episode 1: ‘Room 237’ and Humor in Documentary

‘Terms and Conditions May Apply’ Trailer

‘Blackfish’ Trailer

‘The Trials of Muhammad Ali’ Trailer

‘DisneyNature’s Bears’ Trailer