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  1. documentaries
    A New Doc Boldly Argues for Deep Space Nine’s Place in the Black TV CanonThe revolutionary series deserves to be considered as one of the great cultural artifacts of the 1990s.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  2. that don’t impress me much
    Werner Herzog Has Heard Paul F. Tompkins’s Impression of Him and He Has Notes“That’s good stuff.”
    By Bethy Squires
  3. trailer mix
    Waterworks Are Coming in This Game of Thrones: The Last Watch Doc TrailerHBO’s behind-the-scenes documentary of the last season.
    By Devon Ivie
  4. documentaries
    Kulap Vilaysack Is Ready to Share Her Origin StoryTalking with Vilaysack about her deeply personal documentary, podcasting, and Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.
    By Kenneth Arthur
  5. clips
    Watch Dr. Ruth Read From the Diary She Kept During the HolocaustIn this clip from the new documentary Ask Dr. Ruth, the famed sex therapist reveals heartbreaking details about her childhood.
    By Rachel Handler
  6. at the heart of gold
    Erin Lee Carr Tackles the ‘Whiplash’ of Abuse at the Heart of USA GymnasticsThe At the Heart of Gold director says making a film about the survivors of Larry Nassar and the youth gymnastics system changed her as a person.
    By Chloe Angyal
  7. movie review
    Werner Herzog Brings a Soviet Leader to Tears in Meeting GorbachevSometimes, a history lesson works better when it’s a little ragged and personal.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  8. documentaries
    How Did Netflix’s Knock Down the House Predict AOC’s Rise? It Didn’t.“We had a whole plan. It was going to be gritty and dark, and we were going to tell it like it is.” Then Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won.
    By Jada Yuan
  9. tribeca film festival 2019
    Tribeca’s Sublime Doc Mostly Misses the PointThere’s a hurried slickness to Sublime that ultimately hampers any attempt to offer the definitive account of the band’s history.
    By Larry Fitzmaurice
  10. d’angelo
    The Ever-Elusive D’Angelo Is Working On His Next AlbumThe news comes from the director of his new documentary.
    By Milan Polk
  11. documentaries
    Iconic L.A. Club The Comedy Store Is Getting a Docu-Series at ShowtimeThe four-part series will air sometime next year.
    By Megh Wright
  12. movie review
    Penguins Would Be Amazing With the Sound Turned OffDisney’s nature documentary could do without its 1980s power-pop soundtrack.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. movie review
    Satanic Temple Documentary Hail Satan? Might Just Turn You Into a SatanistFilmmaker Penny Lane offers a fascinating look at the surprisingly sincere free-speech rabble-rousers.
    By Emily Yoshida
  14. homecoming
    Just Drop the Blue Ivy Album AlreadyIt’s time for Bluechella.
    By Milan Polk
  15. documentaries
    Scott Rudin Is Producing a To Kill a Mockingbird Documentary for HBOLikely to air this fall.
    By Jackson McHenry
  16. movie review
    Aretha Franklin’s Concert Doc Amazing Grace Is TranscendentThe long-buried documentary, which Franklin blocked from theaters, is finally being released.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  17. interview
    The Wild Story Behind Aretha Franklin’s Long-Delayed Documentary, Amazing Grace“It’s all crazy. It’s the craziest story that I know of in show business. I think we’ve lapped the field on crazy.”
    By Mike Rubin
  18. true crime
    Watch an Exclusive Clip From HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed FinaleCould DNA evidence potentially exonerate Adnan?
    By Dan Reilly
  19. backstories
    The Ingeniously Nerdy Filmmaking Secrets of Documentary Now!The IFC show’s directors break down, in extreme detail, how they pulled off the visual parodies of season three.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  20. chat room
    Michael C. Hall on Documentary Now!, Bowling, and Why Alf Is ‘Rude’In the season finale of IFC’s parody series Doc Now!, the Dexter actor plays “the best bowler in the world.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  21. movie review
    You Need to See the Steve Bannon Doc The BrinkIt’s the year’s most urgent documentary.
    By David Edelstein
  22. roll clip!
    The Birds in Netflix’s New Nature Doc Are Some Big Ole FreaksTickle my face with your tail feather so I know it’s real.
    By Hunter Harris
  23. the inventor
    Alex Gibney’s Theranos Documentary Stares Deeply into Elizabeth Holmes’s EyesThe Inventor fixates on the would-be disrupter’s face as it tries to understand her captivating effect on Silicon Valley.
    By Emily Yoshida
  24. close reads
    Leaving Neverland and Surviving R. Kelly Ask Too Much of VictimsBoth demand an emotional labor that reveals how entrenched we are in rape culture, even as we attempt to pass a sweeping referendum on it.
    By Nylah Burton
  25. tv review
    The Case Against Adnan Syed Is an Empathetic ReckoningIn this HBO docuseries, Hae Min Lee rightfully becomes the center of a murder case that’s captivated millions.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  26. movie review
    Lil Peep Documentary Is a Deeply Affecting Character Study of the Late RapperEverybody’s Everything arrives at some kind of truth about the risks and rewards of an artist with seemingly no boundaries.
    By Emily Yoshida
  27. scams
    20/20 to Air Its Own Special About the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos DebacleThe ABC News podcast The Dropout, also about Holmes, premiered in January.
    By Halle Kiefer
  28. trailer mix
    Amazing Grace Trailer: Aretha Franklin, in All Her GlorySee the concert doc in theaters April 5.
    By Hunter Harris
  29. trailer mix
    Alec Baldwin Wears John DeLorean’s Eyebrows in the Framing John DeLorean TrailerCould the parking-spot feud have been Method acting?
    By Hunter Harris
  30. documentaries
    I Am Richard Pryor Documentary Makes Its TV Debut Next WeekTiffany Haddish, Lily Tomlin, Mike Epps, and more show up in the film.
    By Megh Wright
  31. documentaries
    Amazon Documentary Plans to Capture Jonas Brothers in Their Natural HabitatThe band recently released “Sucker,” their first single in six years.
    By Halle Kiefer
  32. vulture recommends
    The Legend of Jimmy Breslin and Pete HamillHBO’s Deadline Artists documentary is a celebration of two New York journalism giants.
    By Chris Smith
  33. tv review
    Leaving Neverland Is a Chilling Indictment of Michael Jackson’s LegacyThe HBO doc illuminates not just Jackson’s alleged underage sex abuse, but the forces that kept people from talking about it.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  34. the show must go on
    If You Liked Their Oscars Set, Adam Lambert and Queen Hope You’ll Love Their DocBased on his reaction at the Academy Awards, Javier Bardem is about to go nuts for The Show Must Go On.
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. true crime
    Abducted in Plain Sight’s Jan Broberg on Why She Forgave Her Parents“The reality is that my parents were victims too, and this man was just a master manipulator.”
    By Maria Elena Fernandez
  36. documentary now!
    Get to Know the Films That Inspired Documentary Now!Your guide to watching the major titles that the IFC series has parodied in the past and will spoof in its new season.
    By Noel Murray
  37. trailer mix
    The Trailer for The Case Against Adnan Syed Revives Your Serial Obsession“Nobody realized it was going to turn into anything big.”
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  38. trailer mix
    Watch the Trailer for the Controversial Michael Jackson Doc Leaving NeverlandComing to HBO in March.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  39. chat room
    Oscar-Nominated Minding the Gap Director Bing Liu on American Masculinity Crisis“My take in this film was the way in which we do or don’t deal with emotions manifests itself in every aspect of your life.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  40. tribeca film festival 2019
    Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Will Open With a Documentary About the Apollo TheaterThe festival will screen the Roger Ross Williams documentary The Apollo in the Apollo Theater.
    By Rebecca Alter
  41. tv review
    Amazon’s Lorena Docuseries Will Make You Rethink the Bobbitt CaseThe Amazon docuseries takes a deeper look at the woman who became infamous for cutting off her husband’s penis in 1993.
    By Jen Chaney
  42. true crime
    Abducted in Plain Sight Director on Why the Brobergs Were in ‘Absolute Denial’Skye Borgman answers lingering questions about her absolute shocker of a true-crime documentary.
    By Jen Chaney
  43. sundance 2019
    The Brink Is a Steve Bannon Movie That Doesn’t Give Him a PlatformBannon may bloviate and backslap all he wants, but The Brink’s message is clear: his shit is weak.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  44. tv review
    The Ted Bundy Tapes Examines an Infamous Killer, But Finds Only a VoidThe Netflix doc is brilliantly structured and edited, but it ultimately elides the stories of Bundy’s victims.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  45. true crime
    Abducted in Plain Sight Is a Documentary That Must Be Seen to Be BelievedThink of the wildest story you’ve ever heard, multiply it by 50, and then you’ll have a sense of how nuts this doc is.
    By Jen Chaney
  46. documentaries
    Peter Jackson Directing New, Happier Doc About the Beatles’ Let It BeNow with much less fighting.
    By Dee Lockett
  47. sundance 2019
    Chris Wallace Wants You to Remember It Can Always Get WorseAnd he has a message for Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  48. sundance 2019
    Behind Leaving Neverland, the Michael Jackson Documentary That Stunned SundanceDirector Dan Reed on why and how he explored Wade Robson and James Safechuck’s allegations that Jackson sexually abused them as children.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  49. movies
    Extremely Wicked Director on How Ted Bundy ‘Seduced’ His VictimsJoe Berlinger explains his two very different Ted Bundy movies: one is a Netflix doc, the other a Zac Efron movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  50. documentaries
    Why Didn’t Surviving R. Kelly Happen Before Lifetime Entered the Picture?“BET could’ve done it a million times if they wanted to,” says Dream Hampton.
    By Dee Lockett
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