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Tag results: “documentaries”
movies
Devo
Explores the Line Between Artistic Integrity and Success
By Abby Olcese
August 19, 2025 | 9:15am
movies
Serial Killer Mockumentary
Strange Harvest
Slashes With Flair, But Loses Potency in the End
By Jim Vorel
August 8, 2025 | 2:17pm
movies
Wheelchair Bound, Crassly Human:
Murderball
at 20
By Craig D. Lindsey
July 22, 2025 | 11:01am
movies
Videoheaven
Is a Nostalgic, Bloated Tribute to Video Store Culture
By Jim Vorel
July 8, 2025 | 3:45pm
movies
Shark Whisperer
’s Passionate Conservation Hints at the Inner Darkness of Ocean Ramsey
By Jim Vorel
June 28, 2025 | 9:15am
movies
An Improbable Home Takes Shape in Earnest Documentary
Secret Mall Apartment
By Jim Vorel
March 24, 2025 | 2:34pm
movies
Netflix’s
The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Highlights the Horrifying Power of Nature
By Jim Vorel
March 18, 2025 | 9:00pm
movies
Stolen Kingdom
Entertainingly Documents the Dark Subculture of Disney Theme Park Theft and Trespassing
By Jim Vorel
February 26, 2025 | 10:37am
movies
In
From Ground Zero
, 22 Palestinian Filmmakers Tell Stories of Life and Death in Gaza
By Isaac Feldberg
January 6, 2025 | 3:15pm
movies
The 10 Best Documentaries of 2024
By Paste Staff
December 25, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Self Discovery for Social Survival
: A Modern-Day Surfer Wannabe’s Hymn
By Alli Dempsey
October 22, 2024 | 11:00am
movies
ABCs of Horror 3: "N" Is for
The Nightmare
(2015)
By Jim Vorel
October 14, 2024 | 9:25am
movies
ABCs of Horror 3: "H" Is for
Häxan
(1922)
By Jim Vorel
October 8, 2024 | 9:25am
movies
Wang Bing's Epic Textile Worker Trilogy Gets Intimate with
Youth (Hard Times)
By Katarina Docalovich
September 23, 2024 | 3:16pm
movies
Psychics Soothe NYC's Wounds in Eccentric, Frustrating Doc
Look into My Eyes
By Katarina Docalovich
September 5, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Film School:
Varda by Agnès
By Chloe Walker
August 27, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Tender, Delicate and Devastating,
Daughters
Explores the Complexity of “Father Wounds”
By Natalia Keogan
August 14, 2024 | 10:15am
movies
Sugarcane
Compassionately Confronts the Legacy of Residential Schools
By Jacob Oller
August 8, 2024 | 2:00am
movies
Thrilling Doc
War Game
Workshops the Plausibility of a Military Coup—on U.S. Soil, for Once
By Natalia Keogan
August 5, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Dizzying Doc
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Defies Gravity, Not Narrative Expectations
By Natalia Keogan
July 17, 2024 | 12:30pm
movies
Generative Documentary
Eno
Mistakes AI Manipulation for Artful Filmmaking
By Natalia Keogan
July 11, 2024 | 12:30pm
movies
Martin Scorsese Praises The Archers in
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
By Brogan Morris
July 10, 2024 | 12:30pm
movies
Andrew McCarthy Reclaims the Narrative in
Brats
By Amy Amatangelo
June 11, 2024 | 3:02pm
movies
The Weekend Watch:
Portrait of Jason
By Jacob Oller
June 7, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Buena Vista Social Club
at 25: Wim Wenders' Glorious Musical Salute
By Craig D. Lindsey
June 5, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Dig through the Past in This Exclusive Clip from
Flipside
By Jacob Oller
May 31, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
The Weekend Watch:
40,000 Years of Dreaming
By Jacob Oller
May 24, 2024 | 12:30pm
movies
We Need More than
Power
's Police Brutality Primer
By Jacob Oller
May 15, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
The Longest Goodbye
Sticks to the Surface When Considering Issues of Long-Term Space Travel
By Jacob Oller
May 6, 2024 | 1:30am
movies
The 10 Best Movies on Sundance Now
By Paste Staff
May 1, 2024 | 8:35am
movies
Remembering Gene Wilder
Simply Pays Its Respects to a Complex Artist
By Anna McKibbin
April 29, 2024 | 2:00pm
movies
Exclusive Clip:
Call Me Country: Beyoncé & Nashville’s Renaissance
By Jacob Oller
April 26, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Man with a Movie Camera
Found the Mechanical Heartbeat of the Modern World
By Alex Lei
April 9, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Colombian Election Doc
Igualada
Is Surprisingly Anonymous
By Jacob Oller
April 8, 2024 | 1:00am
movies
Of Course It Took a Documentary about Cum to Get to the Heart of the Male Psyche
By Jacob Oller
April 5, 2024 | 5:27pm
movies
The Future Is Feminist in Friction-Heavy Political Doc
Girls State
By Jacob Oller
April 3, 2024 | 2:45am
movies
Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power
Trailer: Jayda G Combines Music and Science in Climate Doc
By Jacob Oller
March 20, 2024 | 9:00am
movies
Wim Wenders Confronts Art, Immersion, and His Past in 3D Doc
Anselm
By Kathy Michelle Chacón
March 19, 2024 | 1:30am
movies
Frida
Presents Kahlo in Her Own Words, but Flinches from Her Cultural and Capitalist Legacy
By Natalia Keogan
March 14, 2024 | 11:30am
movies
Rap Is on Trial in Didactic Documentary
As We Speak
By Jacob Oller
February 27, 2024 | 2:26am
movies
Exclusive: Lee Fields Sings "Let's Talk It Over" in New Clip from
Lee Fields: Faithful Man
By Jacob Oller
February 21, 2024 | 11:00am
movies
Dario Argento Panico
Is an Incomplete Look at an Unknowable Director
By Kenneth Lowe
February 6, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Ignore the Chatbot Behind
Love Machina
's Curtain
By Jacob Oller
January 24, 2024 | 10:50am
movies
Thanks to Evil AI, the Dead Don't Die in
Eternal You
By Jacob Oller
January 20, 2024 | 11:00pm
movies
Black Box Diaries
Is a Riveting, First-Person #MeToo Investigation
By Jacob Oller
January 20, 2024 | 7:15pm
movies
Beauty Persists in
Porcelain War
's Brutalized Ukraine
By Jacob Oller
January 20, 2024 | 4:30pm
movies
Agent of Happiness
Takes Us on an Intimate Survey of Satisfaction
By Jacob Oller
January 19, 2024 | 4:30pm
movies
Lucy Lawless' Kinetic Doc Debut,
Never Look Away
Puts a Face to War Journalism
By Jacob Oller
January 19, 2024 | 11:40am
movies
Lea Glob Finds Her Muse with
Apolonia, Apolonia
By Sage Dunlap
January 17, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Barely Breaches the Poet’s Atmosphere
By Abby Olcese
January 8, 2024 | 10:00am
movies
Occupied City
Is a Rewarding Marathon of a WWII Doc
By Anna McKibbin
December 21, 2023 | 3:00am
movies
The 20 Best Documentaries of 2023
By Paste Staff
December 12, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
Piano Competition Documentary
Pianoforte
Harmonizes Passion and Heartbreak
By Jacob Oller
December 1, 2023 | 3:00am
movies
Intimate Yet Simplistic,
American Symphony
Is a Little Flat
By Jacob Oller
November 29, 2023 | 3:26pm
movies
Meet the Virtuosic Piano-Playing Machines in This Exclusive
Pianoforte
Clip
By Jacob Oller
November 28, 2023 | 12:00pm
movies
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Actually Tracks the Sex Educator’s Emergence
By Andy Crump
November 22, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
Frederick Wiseman Finds Calm in the Kitchen with
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
By Chloe Walker
November 22, 2023 | 1:00am
movies
Sweat the Stress Away with Intimate Estonian Documentary
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
By Jacob Oller
November 21, 2023 | 1:30am
movies
Stamped from the Beginning
Is a Visual History of Anti-Blackness in America
By B. Panther
November 20, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
Subject
Reflects on the Human Cost of the Documentary Boom
By Jacob Oller
November 13, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
Wang Bing Documents Endless Toil in
Youth (Spring)
By Katarina Docalovich
November 10, 2023 | 10:54am
movies
Sylvester Stallone Reflects on His Bumpy Career in Netflix Doc
Sly
By Jesse Hassenger
November 3, 2023 | 12:30pm
movies
In
Four Daughters
' Look at Trauma and Extremism, Fiction Intensifies Reality
By Farah Cheded
October 26, 2023 | 1:45am
movies
For One Family,
Silver Dollar Road
Is Worth More Than The Currency In Its Title
By Andy Crump
October 20, 2023 | 2:00pm
movies
John le Carre Evades Errol Morris in Entertaining, Wry Interview Doc
The Pigeon Tunnel
By Aparita Bhandari
October 17, 2023 | 2:35pm
movies
Dull, Condescending Documentary
Fantastic Machine
Thinks It Has Images All Figured Out
By Jacob Oller
October 13, 2023 | 3:30am
design
The Best Art Documentaries on Netflix
By Paste Staff
October 3, 2023 | 12:52pm
movies
The Best Historical Documentaries on Netflix
By Paste Staff
September 12, 2023 | 10:39am
movies
Scout’s Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America
Is as American as Apple Pie
By Brianna Zigler
September 6, 2023 | 2:30pm
movies
King Coal
Observes Undying Loyalty to a Waning Monarchy
By Jacob Oller
August 11, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
The Eternal Memory
Is a Refreshing, Life-Affirming Look at Loss
By Aurora Amidon
August 9, 2023 | 1:50pm
movies
Unwieldy Documentary
A Compassionate Spy
Finds Humanity in the Bomb's Shadow
By Jacob Oller
August 3, 2023 | 1:18pm
movies
Black Trans Sex Workers Run the Show in the Raucous, Riveting
Kokomo City
By Jacob Oller
July 28, 2023 | 12:22pm
movies
Close to Vermeer
Paints a Vivid, Behind-the-Scenes Portrait of Art-World Exhibitions
By Natalia Keogan
July 25, 2023 | 12:30pm
movies, music
The 10 Best Music Documentaries on Netflix
By Paste Staff
July 20, 2023 | 11:10am
movies
The 40 Best Documentaries on Netflix Right Now
By Paste Staff
July 19, 2023 | 12:05pm
movies
Watch Two Exclusive Clips from
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
By Trace Sauveur
July 18, 2023 | 12:00pm
movies
The Deepest Breath
Delves into the Dazzling, Dangerous World of Competitive Freediving
By Natalia Keogan
July 14, 2023 | 2:42pm
movies
Poetic Polemic
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Plainly Refutes a National Narrative
By Jacob Oller
July 12, 2023 | 4:41pm
movies
Chilling Doc
20 Days in Mariupol
Captures the Horrors of the Ukraine Invasion in Real Time
By Trace Sauveur
July 11, 2023 | 12:30pm
movies
Nostalgic Netflix Doc
Wham!
Revisits a Band's Short but Glorious Pop Reign
By Tara Bennett
July 6, 2023 | 2:30pm
movies
The League
Documents a Well-Rounded Chapter in Baseball History
By Andy Crump
July 6, 2023 | 10:45am
movies
Chasing Chasing Amy
Takes Kevin Smith Personally
By Jesse Hassenger
June 22, 2023 | 12:30pm
movies
The Stroll
Electrically Merges Trans History and Trans Present
By B. Panther
June 20, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Is a Thorough Look at a Remarkable Career
By Kenneth Lowe
June 7, 2023 | 12:30pm
movies
Victim/Suspect
is an Illuminating, Insufficient Portrait of Sexual Assault Reporting
By Brianna Zigler
May 19, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
Chop & Steele
Highlights the Joy and Struggle of a Creative Partnership
By Jim Vorel
April 24, 2023 | 10:00am
movies
Judy Blume Forever
Is an Emotional Celebration of an Author and Her Impact
By Tara Bennett
April 21, 2023 | 2:30pm
movies
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Enhances the Beautiful Mystique of David Johansen
By Matthew Jackson
April 14, 2023 | 2:30pm
movies
Abortion Pill Documentary
Plan C
Is an Affecting, Overwhelming Political Maelstrom
By Jacob Oller
January 23, 2023 | 5:10pm
movies
Disability Documentary
Is There Anybody Out There?
Is a Broad, Familiar Video Diary
By Jacob Oller
January 22, 2023 | 5:30pm
movies
Family Friction Charms in
Joonam
's Meandering Multi-Generation Quest for Iranian Identity
By Jacob Oller
January 21, 2023 | 2:10pm
music
Exclusive: Watch a Clip from the Upcoming Tom Petty: Live at the Fillmore Documentary
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
January 19, 2023 | 9:00am
music
Director Mary McCartney Collects Music Royalty to Sing the Praises of Abbey Road in
If These Walls Could Sing
By Tara Bennett
December 16, 2022 | 8:30am
movies
The 20 Best Documentaries of 2022
By Dom Sinacola and Paste Staff
December 13, 2022 | 9:00am
movies
The 21 Best Documentaries on Amazon Prime
By Paste Staff
June 17, 2022 | 10:51am
tv
10 African American Documentaries to Watch Right Now
By Diedre Johnson
February 22, 2022 | 1:29pm
tv
The Tindler Swindler
Is So Frustrating Because Deep Down, We All Know How It Will End
By Jim Vorel
February 4, 2022 | 2:36pm
movies
The 25 Best Documentaries of 2021
By Dom Sinacola and Paste Staff
December 14, 2021 | 8:05am
movies
Portrait of an Artist on Fire: Documenting Trauma in
Val
and
One More Time with Feeling
By Brianna Zigler
August 17, 2021 | 2:00pm
movies
The Alpha and the Omega of Film Fests:
Paste
at Teleported True/False 2021
By Dom Sinacola
May 16, 2021 | 2:52pm
movies
Long-Awaited
RoboCop
Tribute Film
RoboDoc
Arrives Soon, With Peter Weller Interview
By Jim Vorel
April 30, 2021 | 10:55am
tv
Watch the Harrowing Trailer for HBO's Opioid Crisis Documentary,
The Crime of the Century
By Jim Vorel
April 21, 2021 | 10:02am
tv
Hulu's
Sasquatch
Wishes Its Mystery Could Match the Beast in Its Title
By Jim Vorel
April 19, 2021 | 10:47am
comedy
Watch the Trailer for Clickbait Sasquatch Mockumentary
15 Things You Didn't Know About Bigfoot
By Jim Vorel
April 13, 2021 | 12:30pm
movies
10 Great Documentaries about Women Artists
By Adesola Thomas
March 19, 2021 | 1:49pm
movies
Wojnarowicz
Traces Moral Panic and the Queer Right to Exist
By Shayna Maci Warner
March 19, 2021 | 11:50am
movies
Elizabeth Lo’s
Stray
Captures the Contradictions of Compassion
By Natalia Keogan
March 5, 2021 | 11:45am
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