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This week's highlights include new documentaries involving hummingbirds, Diane Warren, and poor families in Beirut. Also...
10/01/2025

This week's highlights include new documentaries involving hummingbirds, Diane Warren, and poor families in Beirut. Also: 'Look Into My Eyes' hits streaming and 'Kon-Tiki' turns 75.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - January 10-16, 2025

Tonight, the Cinema Eye Honors celebrates the documentary 'Hearts and Minds' with their Legacy Award. We thought it a go...
09/01/2025

Tonight, the Cinema Eye Honors celebrates the documentary 'Hearts and Minds' with their Legacy Award. We thought it a good time, therefore, to write about the film's legacy and why it's a documentary classic.

Why the 1974 Oscar winner about the Vietnam War is still worth watching today.

This week's highlights include documentaries about Gaza, Hollywood, and Chet Baker, plus the streaming releases of two o...
03/01/2025

This week's highlights include documentaries about Gaza, Hollywood, and Chet Baker, plus the streaming releases of two of 2024's best films. Check out the latest newsletter below.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - January 3-9, 2025

Here are 25 documentaries we're looking forward to in 2025, including new films about Sly and the Family Stone, Pee-wee ...
01/01/2025

Here are 25 documentaries we're looking forward to in 2025, including new films about Sly and the Family Stone, Pee-wee Herman, Paul McCartney, John & Yoko, Marlee Matlin, Julian Assange, and the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - January-December 2025

This week's highlights include retrospectives of the films of Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Arthur D**g, and Farugh Farrokhzad...
27/12/2024

This week's highlights include retrospectives of the films of Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Arthur D**g, and Farugh Farrokhzad, plus a new documentary set in the future.

Theatrical & Streaming Releases - New & Recommended - December 27, 2024-January 2, 2025

This week's highlights include documentaries on the Oscar shortlists, nonfiction films added to the National Film Regist...
20/12/2024

This week's highlights include documentaries on the Oscar shortlists, nonfiction films added to the National Film Registry, our best of 2024, and Doc Options with Bob Dylan and Robbie Williams.

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

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 sexual assault, the retu...
25/10/2024

This week's documentary highlights include films following a woman's investigation into her own sexual 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.

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