The annual DOC NYC festival offers a selection that is especially diverse, both in nationality and in approach.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.