Technology has made non-fiction film easier to make, more available and more popular than ever before. Here, WNYC selects the best documentaries as they come to screens of any size.

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Title Date published
"The 1619 Project" becomes a six-part series 2023-02-17
"Nothing Lasts Forever" looks at the diamond industry 2023-02-10
"Body Parts" explores how Hollywood treats sex 2023-02-03
New documentary "Roberta" profiles the soul singer 2023-01-27
Performing for inmates at Angola Prison 2023-01-20
Remembering Linsanity in "38 at the Garden" 2023-01-13
"Bad Axe" profiles a restaurant during COVID 2023-01-06
"Turn Every Page" Explores a Literary Relationship 2022-12-30
Revisiting the Feminist Classic "Joyce at 34" 2022-12-16
Pursuing the Green New Deal in "To the End" 2022-12-09
"2nd Chance" profiles the inventor of a bullet resistant vest 2022-12-02
"Descendant" investigates the legacy of a slave ship 2022-11-25
Meet the elder Robert Downey in "Sr." 2022-11-18
Celebrating filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the DOC NYC festival 2022-11-11
Remembering Sally Schmitt in "The Best Chef in the World" 2022-11-04
"Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues" profiles the jazz great 2022-10-28
"An Act of Worship" listens to American Muslims 2022-10-21
Pursuing major league dreams in "The Last Out" 2022-10-14
Facing mortality in "Last Flight Home" 2022-10-07
European Jews fleeing to America in "The U.S. and the Holocaust" 2022-09-30
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