Here are the true stories that deserve spots on your watchlist.
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Looking for great fly-on-the-wall views of subcultures, obsessions, and stories of incredible artistry?
Here are the 22 best documentaries streaming across various platforms.
‘Fire of Love’; Kathleen Hanna in ‘The Punk Singer’; Pepper LaBeija in ‘Paris Is Burning’.Credit:Everett (3)
Brutal yet riveting,The Act of Killingis a haunting doc you may never forget.
Too many titles use the word “American” as a faux-meaningful affectation.
This is a love story between two people and their shared obsession, one inseparable from the other.
Herman Koto in ‘The Act of Killing’.Drafthouse Films/Everett
What follows is remarkable, harrowing, and a marvel of documentary editing.
This is a vital document that’s both celebratory and sobering.
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Where to watchThe War Room: Max
Directors:Chris Hegedus, D.A.
Nan Goldin in ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’.Neon
(From left to right) Miriam Frost, Mark Borchardt, Robert Richard Jorge, Sherri Beaupre, and Tom Schimmels in ‘American Movie’.Everett Collection
Andrew Bagby in ‘Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father’.Everett
Dick Johnson in ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’.John Wakayama Carey/Courtesy of Sundance Institute
A still from ‘Fire of Love’.Courtesy of Sundance Institute
Alex Honnold in ‘Free Solo’.Everett
Poster for ‘Gates of Heaven’.Everett
Timothy Treadwell in ‘Grizzly Man’.Lionsgate/Everett
William Gates in ‘Hoop Dreams’.Fine Line Features/Everett
A scene from ‘If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise’.Everett
Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp in ‘Lost in La Mancha’.Everett
Scene from ‘Meru’.Everett
Martin Luther King Jr. in ‘MLK/FBI’.IFC Films
David Bowie in ‘Moonage Daydream’.Neon
Pepper LaBeija in ‘Paris Is Burning’.Everett
Kathleen Hanna (center) in ‘The Punk Singer’.Everett
Still from ‘Samsara’.Everett
Iris Ng and Sarah Polley in ‘Stories We Tell’.Everett
Nina Simone in ‘Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)'.Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures
Randall Dale Adams in ‘The Thin Blue Line’.Everett
George Stephanopoulos and James Carville in ‘The War Room’.October Films/Everett
