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- The Documentary category usually brings us the most eclectic mix of films, and 2021 was no different, offering insightful looks at everything from transgender high school athletes (Changing the Game) to racial bias in facial recognition technology (Coded Bias) and powerful portraits of real people in striking circumstances (Sabaya, Mayor).
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Dec 17, 2021 · Searchlight Pictures. The best movies of 2021 were even better on a big screen, The Times’s co-chief film critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, wrote at year’s end. But many of their top...
Dec 14, 2021 · It’s hard to remember any year for documentaries quite like 2021 — and not just because the overall quality was so high. This year, an unusual number of non-fiction films set off spirited public...
The best non-fiction filmmaking of 2021.
- Ascension. No matter what your image of modern China, it’s nowhere near complete until you’ve seen it through New York-based, China-observing director Jessica Kingdon’s eyes.
- Attica. The events that took place at the fortress-like Attica Correctional Facility in September 1971 remain shrouded, for too many, in a murky mythology.
- The Beatles: Get Back. Only a month after it was first shown, Peter Jackson’s eight-hour chronicle of the three weeks in January 1969 during which the Beatles rehearsed and recorded what would become “Let It Be” is already a documentary you can’t imagine being without.
- Becoming Cousteau. Director Liz Garbus enticingly captures the story of how Jacques Cousteau all but singlehandedly spearheaded the exploration of life under the sea — a quest that, at the time, felt as mysterious and unprecedented as our voyages into space.
Dec 30, 2021 · The 2021 year of documentaries follows a captivating slew of investigative stories from 2020, with the previous year’s films largely fitting into the political genre due to the 2020 election, impeachment, societal unrest due to unjust institutions, and international looks at corrupt systems.
Dec 24, 2021 · Below I’ve collected 16 of the best documentaries, which explored everything from groundbreaking artists and musicians to democracies and surveillance society to the difficult act of healing ...
