Documentary

What do Ray Charles, Aretha, Clapton, The Allmans, and Lynyrd Skynyrd all have in common? Tom Dowd. Atlantic Records ran through his hands. Jeff Giles at Ultimate Classic Rock recommended … Read more

If you’ve ever posted a cute dog video while biting into a burger, this doc might make that scroll feel very different. Joaquin Phoenix narrates. We first noticed “Earthlings” in … Read more

Just one man, one guest house in Los Angeles, and six months of COVID lockdown. What starts as comedy slowly turns into something much heavier. Rex Woodbury of Digital Native … Read more

One empty stage. One man. One boombox. It starts stripped down and ends as one of the most joyful, tightly choreographed live performances ever put on film. Elizabeth Jackson and … Read more

This just might be the best documentary on the modern free-speech culture war playing out on college campuses and across American media. Trailer for “No Safe Spaces” You Can’t Make … Read more

Before Spotify playlists and laptop producers, there was vinyl, a mixer, and DJs like Mix Master Mike and Grandmaster Flash turning turntables into instruments. We found this one from Fernand … Read more

Imagine your name being sewn into a quilt because your country refused to say it out loud. Before hashtags, before corporate pride logos, before America figured out how to talk … Read more

If “The Wire” had a documentary cousin about the war on weed, this would be it—complete with dirty cops, corrupt laws, and Snoop Dogg keeping it real the whole way … Read more

Peter Jackson took 100-year-old footage from the trenches of World War I, restored it in full color, and synced it with real soldier interviews. It makes the war feel like … Read more

They invented punk, hated each other, and toured like factory workers clocking in. I found this doc thanks to Fernand Pajot’s list of the best documentaries ever here. This was … Read more