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- 12019Fyre Fraud is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason that premiered on Hulu on January 14, 2019. A look at the whistleblowers, victims, and the lack of accountability associated with the promotion and execution of the Fyre Festival.
- 2Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Josh Greenbaum. The film explores the creation of The Dana Carvey Show, how its creative team was assembled, and how the show ultimately came to be cancelled.
- 3I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 French, American, Belgian and Swiss documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history.
- 42020Billie is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holliday directed by James Erskine. Based around interviews recorded on audio cassettes in the 1970s while researching a book on Billie Holiday that was never completed, the documentary tells Billie's story from the point of view of her friends, family, her band, peers in 1930s Harlem, pianists, and a pimp.
- 5Wrinkles the Clown is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Michael Beach Nichols. An unknown man in Florida can be hired as Wrinkles the Clown to scare misbehaving children and prank people.
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Batman & Bill
2017Batman & Bill is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce. The film explores the creation of Batman, how Bob Kane was accepted as the sole creator, and how Bill Finger was never credited for his work, despite him creating the Batman mythos. - 7
Hail Satan?
2019Hail Satan? is a 2019 American documentary directed by Penny Lane. An examination of The Satanic Temple, including its origins and grassroots political activism. - 8
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
2016The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years is a 2016 documentary film directed by Ron Howard. The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. - 92021Pharma Bro is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Brent Hodge. A profile of Martin Shkreli, the financial entrepreneur and pharmaceutical tycoon from Brooklyn, New York, known for raising the price of an AIDS drug 5500% overnight, buying the sole copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album for $2 million dollars and being convicted of securities fraud. The most hated man in America, Martin Shkreli is Pharma Bro.
- 102017Obey Giant is a 2017 American documentary film directed by James Moll. The film follows artist Shepard Fairey's rise from his roots in punk rock and skateboarding, to his role as one of the most well-known and influential street artists in the world - through his iconic Obama "HOPE" poster and the controversy that surrounds it.
- 112020Spaceship Earth is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Matt Wolf. A look into the 1991 experiment that saw eight individuals spend two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem, dubbed Biosphere 2.
- The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Scott Barber and Adam Sweeney. A journey behind the scenes of the Nickelodeon television network to chronicle its unprecedented success, from its humble origins as a small local channel to its status as an international phenomenon that helped shape an entire generation of children.
- Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Patrick O'Dell. A look at the rise and fall of the subversive skateboarding magazine Big Brother, which rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and had a profound effect on the skating subculture with its unfiltered approach.
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Crime + Punishment
2018Crime + Punishment is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Stephen T. Maing. A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments. - 152019Untouchable is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Ursula Macfarlane. The film focuses on the abuse allegations that involve Harvey Weinstein and features interviews with Weinstein’s accusers including that of Rosanna Arquette, Paz de la Huerta, and Erika Rosenbaum.More Untouchable
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- 162021Kid 90 is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Soleil Moon Frye. As a teenager in the '90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it away for over 20 years.
- 172019Ask Dr. Ruth is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Ryan White. The documentary offers insight into the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer who survived the Holocaust and became America's most famous sex therapist.
- 182018Minding the Gap is a 2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu. The film chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by their love of skateboarding.More Minding the Gap
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- 192020AKA Jane Roe is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Nick Sweeney. The film features interviews prior to Norma McCorvey's death that offer insight into her journey from pro-choice to pro-life in what she refers to as her "deathbed confession."
- 202019Honeyland is a 2019 Republic of Macedonia documentary film directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.
- The Painter and the Thief is a 2020 Norwegian documentary directed by Benjamin Ree. The documentary follows an artist who gets to know the thief that stole her painting and they become close after a car crash leaves him severely injured but that is not the end of the story.
- 222020I Am Greta is a 2020 international documentary film directed by Nathan Grossman. The film follows climate change activist Greta Thunberg as she travels the world raising awareness about the world's environmental problems.
- 232017Becoming Bond is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Josh Greenbaum. The stranger-than-fiction true story of the casting of Australian model George Lazenby as James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, his eventual decision to leave the role, and the effect it all had on his career and the rest of his life.
- 242020Zappa is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Alex Winter. An in-depth look into the life and career of the enigmatic groundbreaking rock star musician Frank Zappa.
- You Cannot Kill David Arquette is a 2020 American sports documentary film, directed by David Darg and Price James. Actor David Arquette returns to the professional wrestling ring for a series of matches.
- 262021Dead Asleep is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Skye Borgman. Did a remorseful Randy Herman Jr. really commit a brutal murder in his sleep, or was it a convenient cover story? Exclusive access to Herman and his family, the defense and prosecution attorneys, journalists who covered the case, forensic psychiatrists and world experts in violent parasomnia (sleep-walking) give an inside look at the shocking twists and turns of the controversial crime.
- The story of Russ McKamey.
- 282021WeWork (aka WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn) is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Jed Rothstein. It follows WeWork, a real estate company run by Adam Neumann, who was ultimately forced out of the company.
- 29Tea with the Dames is a 2018 documentary film directed by Roger Michell. Acting greats and Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that goes back more than half a century.
- 302020The Mole Agent (Spanish: El agente topo) is a 2020 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Maite Alberdi. A private investigator hires an elderly man to go undercover in a nursing home in Chile.
