Documentary

John Candy made you laugh in Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. But behind that charm was a private, sometimes heavy life. Thanks to Tim Ferriss for recommending this … Read more

How does a small-town comptroller steal more than $53 million and still get treated like a local success story? Trailer for “All the Queen’s Horses” You Can’t Make This Sh!t … Read more

He’s 80 years old. He rides a beat-up bicycle through Manhattan traffic. And he’s one of the most important fashion photographers in the world. My colleague Rob Kelly listed this … Read more

He paid thousands to change his eye color and finally got the attention he’d been chasing his whole life…right as he started going blind. Trailer for “Caterpillar” You Can’t Make … Read more

One brother gets high, flips through his family’s bird book, and has a wild thought: what if you could identify every single bird in here? I found this one on … Read more

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