Film-Forward

Documentary

The Stones and Brian Jones

Nick Broomfield chronicles the short life and tragic demise of the Rolling Stones’ founding member, guitarist Brian Jones.

A Still Small Voice

A powerful and thoughtful study of coming to terms with mortality.

Orlando, My Political Biography

Trans and nonbinary individuals, across a span of generations, tell their life stories, intermixed with passages from Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel, Orlando: A Biography.

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

The documentary take us into the life of Nikki Giovanni, a trailblazer of the civil rights era and a poet of ongoing distinction and importance.

Subject

A documentary that focuses on those who agreed to be filmed in such movies as The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, Capturing the Friedmans, The Square, and more.

Beyond Utopia

Madeleine Gavin’s documentary probably gives viewers the most complete—and harrowing—picture of the nightmare involved in fleeing North Korea.

To Kill a Tiger

An absorbing documentary about an Indian family’s revolutionary fight for justice.

Silver Dollar Road

Raoul Peck peers into the predicament of a Black family who wants to reclaim their long-owned waterfront property in North Carolina, which is threatened by developers.

The Mission

A dense and informative documentary about Christian missionary John Allen Chau’s doomed encounter on the isolated North Sentinel Island.