Documentary

What happens when a Catholic priest admits (on camera) to molesting dozens of children…and the Church still protected him for years? Trailer for “Deliver Us From Evil” You Can’t Make … Read more

This is a heartbreaking look at generational addiction. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows a 26-year-old woman trying to break free from the same cycle of drugs, prison, and … Read more

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

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

Did you know that the fifth Beatle was a brother? Billy Preston! Shout-out to Andrew Chan at 4Columns, whose piece sent me down the Billy Preston rabbit hole. Trailer for … Read more

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

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

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

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

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