Filmmaker Emilce Quevedo Díaz brings light and connection to her family’s story of generational trauma in the documentary We The Women, with a deeply moving, sad, and yet hopeful glimpse into the past and present.
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The League, from director Sam Pollard, is a documentary that should be mandatory viewing for all diehard baseball fans.
Part profile and part concert film, July Talk: Love Lives Here looks at what happens when a band best known for touring and high-intensity, spontaneous live shows is forced to pivot towards something a lot more uncertain and meticulous.
The fear and sadness of losing a loved one collide with the frustrations one faces when caught up in a broken system in Quebecois filmmaker Denys Desjardins’ latest and most personal documentary, I Lost My Mom.
Rich in economic, cultural, culinary, and familial histories, the amusing, cheekily titled, and disarmingly complex documentary The Lebanese Burger Mafia is a satisfyingly full meal.
The life of a talented, but struggling artist is rendered in tender, aching detail in Quebec based filmmaker Justine Harbonnier’s documentary Caiti Blues.
The intriguingly structured two-part ESPN 30 for 30 entry The American Gladiators Documentary shows there’s a lot more to one of the 1990s biggest cultural phenomenons than meets the eye.
Praying for Armageddon, a look into the influence Christian nationalism has on American politics and foreign policy, is equally insightful, timely, wallowing, and repetitive.
Built around a subject some would describe as complex at best and insufferable at worst, the documentary Jackie the Wolf is a layered, deeply personal profile piece built around a controversial, sometimes hard to like person who still shows a great deal of compassion and love for those around them.
A poignant look at emotional depletion and challenged faith, A Still Small Voice is one of the most moving documentaries made during the recent pandemic era about people struggling to keep a level head.