Documentary

Before TikTok edits, before MTV, before jump cuts had a name, Dziga Vertov was already doing it better (in 1929!). Trailer for “Man with a Movie Camera” You Can’t Make … Read more

An honest and funny doc about facing death. It follows poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley as they turn a terminal cancer diagnosis into something that somehow feels full of … Read more

Imagine being raised for one purpose, to beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, and then actually doing it. Tim Ferriss mentioned he’s watching this in his 5-Bullet Friday … Read more

This is one of the best documentaries on how a single spiritual idea can scale into a global cultural movement. Trailer for “Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the … Read more

They spent 10 years chasing a TV dream that never got made. That dream was “Manifesto!”—an unscripted series about real activists and disenfranchised communities. Trailer for “We Want the Airwaves” … Read more

John Paul DeJoria goes from being homeless in Los Angeles twice and running with motorcycle gangs to co-founding Paul Mitchell and Patrón. Trailer for “Good Fortune” You Can’t Make This … Read more

Roger Stone (Donald Trump’s flamboyant, Nixon-tattooed political hitman) lets a filmmaker follow him as the 2020 election spirals toward January 6. Emily Baker of MSN recommended this one. Trailer for … Read more

Imagine the opening of Saving Private Ryan—but stretched across a single mile of Ukrainian forest packed with mines, drones, and Russian troops. A frontline journalist follows a platoon step-by-step toward … Read more

Two French brothers helped invent movies…and this documentary lets you watch the moment cinema was born. I first found it through this post on Kottke.org…and they found it through this … Read more

If Monty Python started a church, marketed it like Apple in 1984, and accidentally predicted Reddit. JR “Bob” Dobbs & the Church of the SubGenius tells the story of how … Read more