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‘Society of the Snow’ Review: The Stranded and the Faithful

Another movie tackles the story of the Uruguayan rugby players who survived a plane crash and turned to cannibalism.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream

This month’s selections include Jean-Luc Godard’s look at the Rolling Stones, an interview with a Holocaust survivor and a behind-the-scenes look at “Sesame Street.”

‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis probably never met. What the stage-based film presupposes is: Maybe they did?

‘Godard Cinema’ Review: A Convention-Defying Auteur

This documentary looks at the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who sought with each new work to confound assumptions about how movies could look and sound.

‘Into the Weeds’ Review: Man Versus Monsanto

This documentary by Jennifer Baichwal recounts a legal battle in which a groundskeeper in California took on a multibillion-dollar company.

Three Great Documentaries to Stream

This month’s picks include two disturbing looks at domestic dysfunction, and — on a brighter note — a portrait of a brilliant Leonard Bernstein protégée.

‘American Symphony’ Review: Intimate Harmony

This portrait of the musician Jon Batiste and the author Suleika Jaouad follows an artistic couple through ambition and adversity.

‘Frybread Face and Me’ Review: Reservation Summer

An 11-year-old boy from San Diego goes to live with his Navajo grandmother and spends time with his cousin.

‘David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived’ Review: Harry Potter’s Stunt Wizard

A documentary looks at the friendship that formed during the Harry Potter movies between Daniel Radcliffe and his main stunt double, who was seriously injured...

‘Youth (Spring)’ Review: Garment Rending

The documentarian Wang Bing examines the cloistered world of young textile workers in China.