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This week's highlights include documentaries about Julia Reichert, Elton John, 'Chasing Amy,' Nikki Giovanni, Pharell, a...
13/12/2024

This week's highlights include documentaries about Julia Reichert, Elton John, 'Chasing Amy,' Nikki Giovanni, Pharell, and the Vietnam War. Also, the latest big awards winners and nominees. Check out our latest newsletter here: https://buff.ly/41EHraW

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - December 13-19, 2024

We count down the 24 best documentaries of the year. Where does your favorite rank? Or, what do you think we missed?
11/12/2024

We count down the 24 best documentaries of the year.

Where does your favorite rank? Or, what do you think we missed?

A count down of the most important and cleverest films and series this year.

This week's highlights include two of this year's best documentaries finally making their streaming debuts and another o...
06/12/2024

This week's highlights include two of this year's best documentaries finally making their streaming debuts and another one of this year's best documentaries racking up best-of-2024 awards.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - December 6-12, 2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about The Beatles, gauchos, and the first woman to join the New York Ph...
29/11/2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about The Beatles, gauchos, and the first woman to join the New York Philharmonic.

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Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - November 29-December 5, 2024

This week's documentary highlights mostly showcase photojournalists and other artists capturing the best and the worst o...
22/11/2024

This week's documentary highlights mostly showcase photojournalists and other artists capturing the best and the worst of the world around them. Also: the AARP and IDA nominations!

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - November 22-28, 2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about anti-authoritarian activists, one of the most famous actors of Ho...
15/11/2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about anti-authoritarian activists, one of the most famous actors of Hollywood's Golden Age, and *the* most famous artist of the Renaissance.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - November 15-21, 2024

This week is light on notable new releases, so we're highlighting a couple of anniversary titles, a double feature for f...
08/11/2024

This week is light on notable new releases, so we're highlighting a couple of anniversary titles, a double feature for film fans, and this weekend's Critics Choice Documentary Awards ceremony.

Check out our latest newsletter for what to watch and when.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - November 8-14, 2024

Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Chris Smith's 'American Movie,' so we wrote about why it remains a class...
05/11/2024

Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Chris Smith's 'American Movie,' so we wrote about why it remains a classic documentary a quarter of a century later.

Chris Smith's 1999 documentary arrived at the end of an era for independent cinema but remains one of the most memorable nonfiction films of the 1990s.

This week's documentary highlights include new films about Luther Vandross, John Williams, jazz legends and African deco...
01/11/2024

This week's documentary highlights include new films about Luther Vandross, John Williams, jazz legends and African decolonization, and Israel and Palestine, plus spotlights on the works of Alanis Obomsawin, Harrod Blank, and Susan Froemke.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - November 1-7, 2024

This week's documentary highlights include films following a woman's investigation into her own s*xual assault, the retu...
25/10/2024

This week's documentary highlights include films following a woman's investigation into her own s*xual assault, the return of African art to its home after more than a century, and the life of Martha Stewart. Check out our latest newsletter for those and more listings at the link below.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - October 25-October 31, 2024

This week's documentary highlights include new films about the Phillies, Amazon workers, moths, Tegan and Sara, and a ga...
19/10/2024

This week's documentary highlights include new films about the Phillies, Amazon workers, moths, Tegan and Sara, and a gamer with a secret life, plus an old film following the JFK presidential campaign. Check out our latest newsletter for more!

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - October 18-October 24, 2024

"It's not really what did they do, it's what are you going to do.”Here's our interview with Angela Patton and Natalie Ra...
15/10/2024

"It's not really what did they do, it's what are you going to do.”

Here's our interview with Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, directors of the Netflix documentary 'Daughters': https://nonfics.substack.com/p/daughters-documentary-interview-angela-patton-natalie-rae

In their feature filmmaking debut, two passionate women shine a light on Black girls and seek positive change in a system that punishes kids for things they can't control.

This week's documentary highlights include Pharrell Williams animated in LEGO style, the full release of 'Super/Man,' th...
12/10/2024

This week's documentary highlights include Pharrell Williams animated in LEGO style, the full release of 'Super/Man,' the re-release of 'The Cruise,' and the last of the haenyeo diving into streaming on Apple TV+.

Check out the latest Nonfics newsletter for more:

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - October 11-October 17, 2024

This week's new release highlights include documentaries about James Carville, immigration, and a family in a rare medic...
04/10/2024

This week's new release highlights include documentaries about James Carville, immigration, and a family in a rare medical situation. But our Picks of the Week go back to the '80s for some essential classics.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - October 4-October 10, 2024

This week's documentary highlights include a new docuseries from Lauren Greenfield and films starring Will Ferrell, Ruth...
27/09/2024

This week's documentary highlights include a new docuseries from Lauren Greenfield and films starring Will Ferrell, Ruth Reichl, and Mayor Brandon M. Scott, and News & Documentary Emmy winners, plus the filmographies of Lionel Rogosin and Toni Myers.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - September 27-October 3, 2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about people you believed can fly (Christopher Reeve and BASE jumpers),...
20/09/2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about people you believed can fly (Christopher Reeve and BASE jumpers), a three-part Chilean masterpiece, and a Mexican documentary that's been remade as a medical drama. Check out the latest Nonfics newsletter:

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - September 20-September 26, 2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about NYC psychics, a horse whisperer who befriended the Queen of Engla...
07/09/2024

This week's documentary highlights include films about NYC psychics, a horse whisperer who befriended the Queen of England, NYC oysters, a forgotten s*x educator, and one of the most memorable nonfiction film characters of all time. Check out our latest newsletter here:

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - September 6-September 12, 2024

This week's newsletter highlights new documentaries about Merchant Ivory and BASE jumping, the 45th (or 50th) anniversar...
30/08/2024

This week's newsletter highlights new documentaries about Merchant Ivory and BASE jumping, the 45th (or 50th) anniversary of one of D.A. Pennebaker's great concert films, an overlooked gem from last year, and the essential filmography of Sergei Loznitsa.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - August 30-September 5, 2024

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