The Eternal Memory

He spent his life protecting Chile’s memory. Now he’s losing his own. This doc follows journalist Augusto Góngora and actress Paulina Urrutia as they fight Alzheimer’s together. I first heard … Read more

Shoah

Who could make a 9½-hour documentary about the Holocaust without using a single second of archival footage? French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann did just that. JA lot of people are fans … Read more

Paint Me a Road Out of Here

What happens when a legendary Black artist paints freedom onto the walls of Rikers Island—and the system tries to bury it? I first saw the story on Colossal, which highlighted … Read more

Hanging by a Wire

Two steel cables snap and eight people hang 900 feet above a rocky gorge in the Himilayas. And the last cable is fraying. I found out about this one on … Read more

The Alabama Solution

In Alabama, inmates say this prison is built on violence, forced labor, and cover-ups. And they risk their lives to prove it. Hugh Scott from CinemaBlend​ listed this as one … Read more

The Track

It’s part sports doc, part coming-of-age story, and part post-war survival tale. Two teenage boys. One shattered Olympic track. And a country still trying to rebuild itself. Jason Kottke of … Read more

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

He released just one studio album before drowning in the Wolf River in Memphis on May 29, 1997…at 30 years old. But his hauntingly beautiful sounds seem to live on … Read more