Documentary

Frank Grillo makes an enthusiastic host in Netflix’s new original documentary series Fightworld. The 53-year-old actor is shredded, grizzled, and a lifelong fight fan; the...

It’s difficult to comprehend a show like Netflix’s Dancing Queen; I feel torn and uneasy at the pressure put on children to perform. It becomes bizarrely...

The most effective scene in Two Catalonias occurs early in the two-hour runtime. It’s filmed from above, presumably from a balcony, in a swaying handheld...

Three teenagers, who by pure coincidence (some might call it fate) in the fall of 1979 discovered they were triplets separated at birth. They reunite,...

Filmmakers from different races, genders, and upbringings are being given platforms to a wider net to express their unique views that weren’t available before. Alternate...

I welled up ever so slightly during City of Joy. The Netflix documentary details so much tragedy, yet curtails the depression with hope, signifying a light at...

Writer-director Bart Layton’s American Animals is a funny, suspenseful heist film wrapped around a true crime documentary. And it’s just brilliant. Evan Peters, Barry Keoughan,...

Netflix’s Inside the Criminal Mind is a four-part series exploring the answers experts have been seeking for decades – what makes evil criminals tick? Each episode...

Zion is a short documentary film about one remarkable young man, and most especially his attitude about himself. By “short”, I mean it’s less than...

Afflicted is an extraordinarily bleak seven-part Netflix Original documentary series created by Dan Partland. It follows individuals with severe, chronic illnesses who seek out increasingly...

The Most Unknown is a fascinating documentary by Ian Cheney that unites nine scientists from a slew of fields in pursuit of intellectual common ground....

The Bleeding Edge is somewhat a human tragedy articulated by Kirby Dick. The Netflix documentary has no balanced approach, clearly blaming the industry, with systematic failures...

In the opening minutes of 100 Days of Solitude, also known as 100 Days of Loneliness (100 días de soledad), Spanish photographer José Díaz sounds like he...

According to some relevant factoids deployed at the end of Netflix’s new original documentary, 90% of Americans who need help recovering from drug addiction don’t...

When I read about Netflix’s Explained, a new documentary series, I was definitely intrigued. It claimed to be a series that was going to shed some...

Evil Genius opens with the story of Brian Wells, a pizza delivery guy who attempts to rob a bank with a homemade bomb forcibly locked...

I often lie about what I do for a living, as I haven’t yet found a way to say, “I write about movies and video...

A lot of thoughts came to my mind whilst watching The Rachel Divide. The first was that I found it incredible how Rachel Dolezal had managed to...

Ram Dass, Going Home is a Netflix short documentary that follows spiritualist and author Ram Dass at his home in Maui, Hawaii. The film gives...

[yasr_overall_rating size=”medium”] Trump: An American Dream is a documentary mini-series of four hourlong episodes, and takes a deep dive into the history of Donald Trump’s...