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The Story Behind the Heartrending Netflix Documentary Tell Me Who I Am

By Mahita Gajanan

8 LGBTQ Documentaries to Watch During Pride Month

By Rachel E. Greenspan

'That Laugh Is a Drug.' HBO's New Documentary Explores Robin Williams' Relationship to Comedy and Addiction

By Jamie Ducharme

This New Movie Will Give You a New Love for Insects. Really.

By Jeffrey Kluger
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In One of America's Most Dangerous Cities, Football Is a Reprieve for the East St. Louis Flyers

See the new documentary from Fox Sports Films and LeBron James' Uninterrupted

By Dan Greene / Sports Illustrated

Books, Rats and Elegant Shoes

Three documentaries out now that deserve to be on your radar. IN THE STACKS With Ex Libris: New York Public Library, prolific 87-year-old filmmaker Frederick Wiseman trains his ultra-perceptive lens on the NYPL system, an...

By Stephanie Zacharek

Ken Burns Takes on the Vietnam War

Ken Burns takes on the cataclysm of Vietnam

By Karl Vick

The Soul of an Old Machine

People who love typewriters--you know who you are--shouldn't tap the space bar once, let alone twice, before rushing to see Doug Nichol's agile, deeply affectionate documentary California Typewriter. But anyone who loves machines, poetry or,...

By Stephanie Zacharek

Whose Streets? Is a Ragged, Bracing Protest Document

Little good can come from the tragedy of Michael Brown. The 18-year-old unarmed black man was shot to death in the city of Ferguson, Mo., near St. Louis, on Aug. 9, 2014, by white police...

By Stephanie Zacharek

Watch the Trailer for Award-Winning Documentary About Hong Kong Teenage Activist

A profile of Hong Kong teenage activist Joshua Wong

By Eliza Berman

Review: I Am Not Your Negro

In an era when civilized discourse has gone the way of the flip phone, novelist, essayist and playwright James Baldwin--as heard and seen in Raoul Peck's documentary I Am Not Your Negro--is an ambassador from...

By Stephanie Zacharek

Ava DuVernay on Her Oscar-Nominated Documentary 13th and Resistance Through Art

When the 13th amendment was ratified into law on December 6, 1865, it abolished slavery, with one key caveat: “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” More than...

By Eliza Berman

Watch James Baldwin Talk Race in America in a Clip From I Am Not Your Negro

Baldwin's work feels more timely than ever

By Eliza Berman

Janet Mock on What the Election Means for Transgender Americans

'We will not be forced to be silent. We will not have our rights taken away'

By Katy Steinmetz

Watch Morgan Freeman Narrate the Life of an Unsuspecting Pedestrian

This man's life just became March of the Penguins

By Melissa Locker

Suited: Inside Brooklyn’s Tailors for Gender Nonconforming Customers

A new HBO documentary introduces viewers to Bindle & Keep, a custom suiting company that serves people who are transgender, nonbinary, androgynous and genderqueer

By Eliza Berman and Kenneth Bachor

Go Inside the Twisted World of Competitive Tickling in an Exclusive Clip From Tickled

A new documentary explores the dark underbelly of an offbeat subculture

By Eliza Berman

How a Father Created a Video Game to Remember His Terminally Ill Son

The documentary "Thank You For Playing" tells the story of Ryan Green's journey to make a game honoring his son Joel's life

By Eliza Berman

How to Get a Cartoon in the New Yorker in 7 Simple Steps

In the documentary "Very Semi-Serious," "New Yorker" cartoon editor Bob Mankoff discusses what it takes to get a coveted spot in the magazine

By Eliza Berman

How American and Japanese Veterans of Iwo Jima Forged a Friendship 70 Years Later

Watch an exclusive clip from the documentary Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades, hosted by Ryan Phillippe

By Eliza Berman
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