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This Year’s Oscar Shortlisted Documentary Shorts and Where to Watch Them
One of These 15 Documentaries Will Win the Oscar in 2020
What Might Have Been the Golden Globe Nominees for Best Documentary of 2019?
‘The Confession Killer’ Review: Morbid Superstar
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Public Speaking’ Should Be Considered One of His Best
31 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on GuideDoc
Michael Apted on ’63 Up’ and the Past, Present, and Future of the ‘Up’ Series
‘Letter to the Editor’ Review: A Mosaic of American News Told in a Refreshing Format
The Documentary the Royal Family Doesn’t Want You to See
‘Waking Sleeping Beauty’ is a Captivating History of Disney’s Comeback
‘Apollo 11’ Named the Best Documentary of the Year
‘The Battle of Midway’ is the Best American Propaganda Film of All Time
Midge Costin on ‘Making Waves’ and the Art and the Future of Film Sound
‘The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash’ Review: Making a Man Out of The Myth
‘Rewind’ Review: Trauma Hits Close to Home
‘The Biggest Little Farm’ Leads 2019 Critics’ Choice Documentary Award Nominations
‘143 Sahara Street’ Review: Tea Time In The Desert
‘Where’s My Roy Cohn?’ Review: Bullying the Bully
‘I Am Not Alone’ Review: One Man’s Walk Leads to Armenia’s Revolution
Frederick Wiseman to Be Honored at 2019 Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
‘Liam Gallagher: As It Was’ Review: This One’s For the Diehards
‘The Cave’ Review: Feminist Camaraderie Keeps Syrian Underground Hospital Running
‘Our Godfather’ Review: Men of Honor and Violence
‘Un Film Dramatique’ Review: Kids, Cameras, and Freedom
‘Love Child’ Review: Seeking Refuge in Romance
‘Leaving Neverland’ and ‘Our Planet’ Win Top Awards at Creative Arts Emmy Awards
The Best Documentaries on Amazon Prime in September 2019
‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ Review: The Performer, the Paradox
The Best Documentaries on Netflix in September 2019
‘Jack of all Trades’ Review: Reliving the Gilded Age of Baseball Cards
The Short Documentary You Need to Watch With ‘American Factory’
‘Jawline’ Review: When The Dream of Social Media Stardom Turns Nightmarish
Why Amazon Alexa is Infiltrating Hulu Documentaries
‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ Review: An Enthralling Blur of Fact and Fiction
‘What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?’ Review: A Quiet Look at a Community in Crisis
‘One Child Nation’ Review: A Devastating History, Revealed
‘Vision Portraits’ Review: An Answer to Inspiration Porn
The Best Documentaries on Amazon Prime in August 2019
‘What We Left Behind’ Review: A Refreshingly Honest Retrospective
The Best Documentaries on Netflix in August 2019
‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ Review: All These Love Affairs
‘For Sama’ Review: A Letter to a Daughter About Her Parents
How Errol Morris Established the Bittersweet Comedy of American Life
‘The Great Hack’ Review: Weapons-Grade Persuasion
‘Phantom of Winnipeg’ Review: Contagiously Joyous Super Fans Win Hearts
‘Free Solo’ and ‘Our Planet’ Lead 2019 Primetime Emmy Nominations in Documentary Categories
‘I Love You, Now Die’ Review: Teens, Technology, and a Moral Paradox
‘Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love’ Review: This Is Not a Love Story
The 100 Best Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime in July 2019
5 Essential Soccer Documentaries
The 50 Best Documentaries Streaming on Netflix in July 2019
Composer Jeff Beal on the Soundscape of ‘The Biggest Little Farm’
‘Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am’ Review: Toni Morrison Has a Lot to Teach Us
‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ Review: Half-Truths, Whole Truths, Who Cares?
‘Ice on Fire’ Review: Too Cheery and Too Hopeful
‘Framing John DeLorean’ Review: Revealing Scandal Under the Hood
5 Essential Climate Change Documentaries
The 100 Best Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime This June
The 50 Best Documentaries Streaming on Netflix This June
‘The Image You Missed’ Review: Healing Through Artistic Exchange
‘Free Trip to Egypt’ Review: A Flimsy Attempt To Build Bridges
‘Game of Thrones: The Last Watch’ Review: Closing the Book
‘Picture Character’ Review: Our Tech Overlords Tells Us About Emojis
‘Red, White & Wasted’ Review: Mudding Into a Soul Of America
‘Bauhaus Spirit’ Review: Searching and Finding True Believers
‘Echo in the Canyon’ Review: Sexy Sonic Convergence
‘The Creative Brain’ Review: Mapping Out Attainable Enlightenment
Doug Block on the 20th Anniversaries of ‘Home Page’ and the D-Word
‘The Biggest Little Farm’ Review: Nature, Uh, Finds a Way
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime This May
‘General Magic’ Review: Failure is Only the Beginning
‘Our Planet’ and ‘Conversations with a Killer’ Among Critics’ Choice Real TV Award Nominees
‘Out of State’ Review: A Tender Look At Life Beyond Prison
‘Meeting Gorbachev’ Review: A Personal Look at Objective Truths
‘Decade of Fire’ Review: A Community Rises From the Ashes
50 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Netflix This May
‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ Review: The Private Life of an Intimacy Expert
The Documentaries of Werner Herzog Ranked
‘Knock Down the House’ Review: Up Versus Down
‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ Review: Enriching an Iconic Piece of Genre Cinema
‘Wildland’ Review: Finding Second Chances in the Flames
‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Review: A Backup Copy Of History
‘If the Dancer Dances’ Review: Artistic Preservation from Body to Body
‘Scary Stories’ Review: Examining a Generation’s Collective Nightmares
‘Chasing Portraits’ Review: The Art of Healing
The Unshakable Necessity of Nature Documentaries in the Face of Ecological Ruin
Beyoncé’s ‘Homecoming’ Review: An Historic Celebration
‘Instant Dreams’ Review: Stuck in the Past
‘Grass is Greener’ Review: Personal Stakes in the Marijuana Debate
‘Our Planet’ Review: The Fragility of Nature
‘Hail Satan?’ Review: Necessary Blasphemy
‘Breaking Habits’ Review: Nuns, Guns, and the Higher Calling of Breaking Bad
‘Blowin’ Up’ Review: The Art of Giving Perspective
Discussing Equality in the Bedroom with ‘The Dilemma of Desire’ Filmmakers
‘350 Days’ Review: Pro Wrestling Isn’t All Glitz and Glamour
Disneynature’s ‘Penguins’ Review: Sub-Zero Joy
The 10 Best Documentaries About Healthy Living
Seeking Connection, 20 Years Later
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime This April
Variety is the Spice of the 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
‘Drunk History’ Has Become a Major Influence on Documentaries
50 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Netflix This April
‘The Legend of Cocaine Island’ Review: A Southern Fairy Tale Y’all Ain’t Gonna Believe
The 9 Best Baseball Documentaries
‘Screwball’ Review: A Quirky Documentary That Swings for the Fences
‘The Brink’ Review: Portrait of a Political Phantom
‘Meeting Gorbachev’ Trailer: Werner Herzog Spotlights an Unsung Hero
‘Tigerland’ Review: Preservation at Any Cost
Ovid: Your New Nonfiction-Heavy Streaming Destination
Art of the Real is Breaking Down Genre Barriers
‘The Eyes of Orson Welles’ Review: Imaginary Meaning
Storytelling by Proxy: The Case Against Fictionalizing ‘Mommy Dead and Dearest’
‘Combat Obscura’ Review: Demythologizing War
‘Buddy’ Review: Freedom’s Best Friend
The 10 Best Concert Films of All Time
‘Roll Red Roll’ Review: Seriously, What Will Boys Be?
‘The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann’ Review: A Study of Media Mythmaking
‘Buddy’ Trailer: The Life and Times of Devoted Dogs
‘The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley’ Review
‘Madonna and the Breakfast Club’ Trailer: Like A Doppelgänger
The New Cinema Made from the Old: Archival Documentaries on the Rise
The 10 Best Documentaries About the Struggles and Triumphs of Filmmaking
“Finding Frances” and the Line Between True and False
‘The Brink’ Trailer: Steve Bannon is About Winning
‘Time for Ilhan’ Review: Fear Inaction, Not Defeat
‘Life After Flash’ Review: An Overflowing, Heartfelt Celebration of Fandom
‘The Case Against Adnan Syed’ Review: Bad Evidence
50 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Hulu This March
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime This March
The 11 Best Documentaries About Space Travel
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Netflix This March
‘Leaving Neverland’ Review: Fan in the Mirror
The 10 Most Fascinating Serial Killer Documentaries
Why ‘Free Solo’ is a Worthy Oscar Winner
‘Wrestle’ is a Wrestling Documentary That Goes Beyond the Mat
‘Anthropocene’ Introduces the Darkest Man-Made Wonders of the World
10 Essential Documentaries About Love
The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts Reviewed and Ranked
‘Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements’ is a Great Work of Love
‘Rodents of Unusual Size’ is the Thoughtful Swamp Rat Movie You Didn’t Know You Wanted
‘Untouchable’ Exposes a Violator Beyond That Of Harvey Weinstein
‘Gaza’ Puts Normalcy Into Perspective
‘Pahokee’ Gives a Whole New Meaning to Hometown Pride
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime This February
‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ is a Proper Beginning
‘Midnight Family’ Rings Alarms About Public and Private Healthcare
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Netflix This February
Anton Yelchin Documentary ‘Love, Antosha’ is Something to Cherish
‘Bedlam’ Offers Insight into the Horrors of Mental Illness in America
‘Sea of Shadows’ is Mexico’s Answer to ‘The Cove’
‘Midnight Traveler’ is a Powerfully Personal Look at a Family on the Run
‘Stieg Larsson’ Reminds Us That We Need Passionate Journalism
‘Apollo 11’ Review: An Exhaustive, Immersive Experience that Shatters Your Nostalgia
Love and Death in Palermo: ‘Shooting the Mafia’ Captures a Compelling Artist
‘The Disappearance of My Mother’ is All About Appearances
‘RBG’ Leads 2019 Oscar Nominations for Documentaries
Killer Mike Does His Best Morgan Spurlock in ‘Trigger Warning’
‘Fyre’ and ‘Fyre Fraud’ Should Be Watched as a Package Deal
‘Hale County This Morning, This Evening’ Wins Top Award at Cinema Eye Honors
Our 25 Most Anticipated Documentaries of 2019
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Amazon Prime This January
‘Social Animals’ Wades in the Shallows
‘Communion’ is a Stark Picture of Familial Isolation
‘Theatre of War’ Aims Big But Misfires
100 Must-See Documentaries Streaming on Netflix This January
‘Springsteen on Broadway’ Review: Essential for Fans of The Boss