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Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘Fantastical’ Is a Catfishing Horror Story About Toxic Fandom
“Fanatical,” an eye-popping film directed by Erin Lee Carr, details the bizarre 16-year ordeal that the duo and their fans endured.
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‘Union’ Review: Amazon Workers Unionize
As this documentary by Brett Story and Stephen Maing chronicles, the efforts to unionize a warehouse in New York were successful — but also a grind.
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‘Nocturnes’ Review: They Come at Night
In the forests of northeast India, an ecologist tracking moths creates a tiny oasis of light in the darkness.
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Christopher Reeve and 6 Takeaways From the Documentary ‘Super/Man’
The new film chronicles the life of the paralyzed star, covering his friendship with Robin Williams and gut-wrenching details about his care and family.
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In ‘The Last of the Sea Women,’ Divers Face a Vanishing Way of Life
The film captures the arduous work of South Korean haenyeo, who harvest seafood without diving gear, and whose traditions may be ending.
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‘Separated’ Review: Interrogating a Policy
The latest documentary from Errol Morris looks at the Trump administration’s practice of taking children from their parents at the southern border.
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‘Piece by Piece’ Review: Pharrell Williams’s Life, in Legos
The producer and musician gets the biographical documentary treatment — with an unexpected twist.
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‘Daytime Revolution’ Review: Coffee and Counterculture
John Lennon and Yoko Ono invade middle-American living rooms in this cute but shallow documentary.
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‘The Menendez Brothers’ Review: Reframing a Case
To the extent this documentary about Lyle and Erik Menendez has appeal, it is of the tabloid variety.