They say art imitates life, but nothing gets to the heart of humanity like documentary filmmaking. Whether you want to flex your history knowledge or binge a true crime, here are the best documentaries and docuseries available to stream now.
The question mark in the title represents the central idea of this fascinating documentary: what if worshipping Satan is the…
Depicting the horrifying cycle of abuse in the state’s prison system, The Alabama Solution is tough to watch. It was…
There are three threads in Daughters that directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton weave beautifully together. The first thread follows…
Is there anything more lovely than hearing Martin Scorsese talk about cinema? Maybe it’s just the film nerds in us–…
John Candy: I Like Me takes a somewhat standard approach in remembering the titular comedian. The film pulls out old…
An ad exec who skipped his colonoscopy films his own terminal cancer with humor intact. A documentary about death that's…
To Kill a Tiger should not be an easy watch. It’s about the gang rape of 13-year-old Kiran, a girl…
Forget everything you know about the music biopic. One-on-one interviews, chronological storytelling, silent moments with the subjects—Moonage Daydream isn’t that…
It’s hard not to watch The Unknown Country and think of Nomadland: along with similarities in their Terrence Malick-inspired visuals,…
Unlike the other documentaries depicting “Hollywood’s smartest dumb blonde”, My Mom Jayne takes on a different approach to Jayne Mansfield.…
The Beatles is the greatest musical band ever created, or at least the one with the most success, most influence,…
From Ground Zero doesn’t have the most number of shorts within an anthology film, though it comes pretty close with…
Continuing her fight to tell the world the truth about her sexual assault case, journalist Shiori Ito released Black Box…
In Pee-wee as Himself, actor Paul Reubens tells all about his notoriously private life. He sets the record straight about…
Documentaries about people suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s, or other neurodegenerative diseases will always occupy a bit of an uneasy space—how…
Whether or not you’re a fan of Nick Cave’s contemplative, idiosyncratic style of music, This Much I Know to Be…
The idea of representation in movies is often limited to superficial gestures of putting on screen people who look a…
Frida Kahlo is an iconic Mexican painter, not just because of her outstanding art, but also because of her outlook…
At the peak of his fame in the 80s, Christopher Reeve was constantly seen as his onscreen character, Superman. Like…
In this documentary about John Allen Chau — the American Christian missionary reportedly killed when he tried to preach the…
Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…
The film unfolds in the rhythm of a cow’s life: birth, mating, feeding, milking, checkups. Soon, these events become regular…
By remaining totally committed to its quiet, drama-free, observational style of documentary filmmaking, Mr. Bachmann and His Class ends up…
It’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not in the film Pavements, which is a mockumentary (or is it…
There’s a scene early in the documentary when present-day Michael J. Fox, who famously suffers from Parkinson’s Disease, swaggers along…
Following a group of journalists uncovering an entire architecture of institutional corruption in Romania, Collective makes for an inspiring watch—not…
Somewhere near the border between Russia and Ukraine lies a shelter for kids coming from unstable homes. Their parents, either…
In the hands of a lesser artist, something like The Choe Show might have come off as a vanity project…
Judy Blume, the author behind enduring classics like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Superfudge, and Forever, gifts us…
Everything about Sugarcane is arresting, whether it’s the epic shots of the sweeping reservation (“Canada is our land,” one native…
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