Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure, director Matthew Hashiguchi’s documentary The Only Doctor exposes not only a myriad of failings in the American healthcare system, but also how something meant …
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Directors Karen O’Connor, Miri Mavasky, and Maeve O’Boyle spend time getting to know a folk music legend with their documentary Joan Baez I Am A Noise, a biographical film that …
Filmmaker Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized, which opens the 30th edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this week, profiles a tireless advocate for indigenous rights as they approach …
Wrenching, powerful, timely, and insightful, director Nisha Pahuja’s documentary To Kill a Tiger is one of the best investigations into the nature of toxic masculinity in modern Indian society.
The most relaxing documentary of the year, Jacquelyn Mills’ Geographies of Solitude shows how one person’s passion and obsession in an isolated location can help us better understand the world …
Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide is a pleasing and insightful documentary that gives an overlooked icon in the world of pop surrealism their proper due.
Nathalie Bibeau’s Canadian documentary The Walrus and the Whistleblower (which picked up one of the Audience Award prizes at Hot Docs earlier this year) is the perfect marriage of a …
An uneven, but impassioned defense of renewable energy, Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip is a documentary made by someone who’s willing to defend what they believe in, but still hasn’t fully …
A decent, but unexceptional primer on the life and works of one of the most exalted American authors of the 20th century, Flannery follows a boilerplate documentary template of talking …
Our coverage of the 2020 online edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival – which kicks off tomorrow – continues with ten more must-see documentaries.