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‘Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest’ Review: A Barrier-Breaking Ascent

This documentary tells the story of Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to summit Earth’s highest mountain.

Did This Couple Inspire Edward Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’?

A newly preserved Andy Warhol film documents a combative artist couple the playwright knew. The movie is premiering in MoMA’s To Save and Project.

‘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.