From a portrait of the Thin White Duke to a survey of Black cinema, our picks for the best documentaries of the year reminded us that truth is often stranger — and more daring — than fiction
HBO MAx, Nan Goldin, Mario Casilli/mptvimages/SHOWTIME, Neon Picturesonce said. And the gods of the moving pictures did look down upon us and grant that wish. Soon — very soon — we were up to our ears in cinema verité, TV docuseries, true-crime case dossiers, archival-clip compilations, famous-folk tributes, cultural time capsules, fly-on-the-wall reporting 24 frames per second, and more. And lo, it was good, even if it was a lot. Some of it, in fact, was great.
We now have such a steady diet of documentaries available to consume, via so many different venues and in such a variety of formats, that trying to boil down an annual “best of” list for nonfiction films and multi-episode series feels like a Herculean effort.
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