This might be the best Beatles documentary most people have never seen. It’s unauthorized, loaded with rare interviews, and basically vanished after Paul McCartney bought the negative and pulled it … Read more

Mariska Hargitay spent decades chasing justice on Law & Order: SVU—then discovered thousands of real-life rape kits sitting untested across America. Trailer for “I Am Evidence” You Can’t Make This … Read more

It starts with kids playing in the yard and ends in gunfire. This doc shows how a petty complaint spiraled into a deadly test of “stand your ground.” Trailer for … Read more

Before Tony Hawk, before the X Games, before skateboarding was a billion-dollar industry…there were broke kids from Dogtown carving up drained pools like they were waves. This is the origin … Read more

Long before viral wipeouts and drone footage, Riding Giants tells the story of the maniacs—Greg Noll, Jeff Clark, Laird Hamilton—who rewrote what humans thought was survivable. Trailer for “Riding Giants” … Read more

She was a “little Black girl” who wasn’t taken seriously, but grew into one of the most important voices in literature. I found this one thanks to Kasey Moore over … Read more

A black-and-white time capsule of the East Village before it got scrubbed clean. Where the bars are grimy, the streets feel dangerous, and every face might be famous someday. Thanks … Read more

24 people. One pickup truck and one rule: keep your hand on it longer than anyone else. The hours stretch into days, the hallucinations kick in, and it becomes one … Read more

In 1985, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on one of its own neighborhoods. The footage sat largely unseen for decades. Stephen Johnson of LifeHacker listed this in his … Read more