Documentaries

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  • The 9/11 deniers

    The success of the documentary "Loose Change" spotlights the thousands of online sleuths who believe the U.S. government was behind the terror attacks -- to get gold, justify war, or serve Satan.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 27, 2006

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Emile Griffith was a champion and one tragic time a literal killer in the ring. Outside of it, he was a charming enigma, possibly gay. USA Network tells his riveting story in "Ring of Fire."
    April 20, 2005

  • The nightmare in Iraq

    "Gunner Palace" takes the viewer as close to the actual experience of the Iraq war as anyone will ever want to get.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 4, 2005

  • Sneak peek: "Gunner Palace"

    This documentary about an artillery crew in Baghdad reveals that underarmored Humvees were a problem from the beginning.
    December 13, 2004

  • Killer companies

    Post-"Fahrenheit," the stellar documentaries -- including "The Corporation" and "Imelda" -- just keep coming. Plus: A moody meditation on familial love, or homoerotic cologne ad?
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 2, 2004

  • "The Fog of War"

    Errol Morris tries to pin down Vietnam War chess-master Robert McNamara, and the results are fascinating -- also troubling, deeply confusing and way too artistically precious.
    By Charles Taylor December 19, 2003

  • When an Arab is also a Jew

    As the powerful new documentary "Forget Baghdad" makes clear, life is complicated for Israeli Jews haunted by their memories of a secular, multicultural Iraq.
    By Christopher Farah December 15, 2003

  • "Tupac: Resurrection"

    Yes, the world needs a documentary that somehow makes sense of the charismatic, contradictory pioneer of gangsta rap. This isn't it.
    By Stephanie Zacharek November 14, 2003

  • Blame it on Rio

    Brazilian director Jose Padilha talks about "Bus 174," his shocking documentary about the Rio street kid who hijacked a bus -- and forced a nation to confront its epidemic of violence.
    By David Ng October 8, 2003

  • "To Be and to Have"

    This heart-wrenching documentary about a French village schoolteacher at work offers the comedy and pathos of great drama and the visual magnificence of painting.
    By Charles Taylor September 26, 2003

  • "I don't believe in the American dream"

    Spanish director Carles Bosch talks about his epic documentary "Balseros," which follows seven Cuban refugees who came to the U.S. by raft in 1994 -- and found their new homeland to be something less than paradise.
    By David Ng July 28, 2003

  • Besieged by "Friends"

    In AMC's "Hollywood in the Muslim World," we find a populace struggling to maintain its identity against the creeping invasion of American entertainment.
    By Heather Havrilesky July 14, 2003

  • Blood and asphalt

    A new documentary pays tribute to "Signal 30," "Highways of Agony" and the other ghoulish, crudely made yet unforgettable driver-training films of the '60s and '70s.
    By Paul Matwychuk June 24, 2003

  • A suburban family in hell

    In Andrew Jarecki's devastating documentary "Capturing the Friedmans," a Long Island family is torn to shreds by spectacular child-abuse charges. But who were the real criminals -- Arnold and Jesse Friedman or the cops, prosecutors and shrinks?
    By Charles Taylor May 30, 2003

  • "Someone should just obliterate my country"

    The director of "Afghan Stories" talks about life in the final days of Taliban rule.
    By Suzy Hansen May 7, 2003

  • "Spellbound"

    Jeff Blitz's delightful documentary on the National Spelling Bee and its grammar-school competitors will win your heart. Whether or not you can spell "opsimath."
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 30, 2003

  • "Love & Diane"

    This epic documentary about a family struggling with poverty and welfare has the density of Balzac -- but the "system" it portrays works surprisingly well.
    By Laura Miller April 18, 2003

  • Accidental tourists

    West Bank Palestinians tell their stories during a bus tour through Israel -- the country in which many of them grew up -- in an illuminating Sundance Channel documentary.
    By Heather Havrilesky March 31, 2003

  • "Standing in the Shadows of Motown"

    A generous documentary spotlights the anonymous hitmakers behind Marvin Gaye and the Supremes but fails to brighten Berry Gordy's dark corners.
    By Charles Taylor November 15, 2002

  • Breaking into the movie business

    Everyone knows Hollywood sucks, but I stole -- and doctored -- Sony's "Sean Connery Golf Project" script to make it better.
    By Sara Rimensnyder April 16, 2002

  • "How does it feel to be America's blow-job queen?"

    In their HBO movie "Monica in Black and White," documentarians Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey riff on Lewinsky, celebrity and the tough questions.
    By Ian Rothkerch March 1, 2002

  • Strange sex

    Documentarians Joe and Harry Gantz, creators of HBO's "Taxicab Confessions," talk about their new film: A stark, disturbing portrait of three couples who swing.
    By Max Garrone February 22, 2002

  • Frederick Wiseman

    The grandfather of cinéma vérité talks about domestic violence, "Domestic Violence" and the reality behind reality films.
    By Nick Poppy January 30, 2002

  • "Trembling Before G_d"

    God or gay? The Orthodox Jewish subjects of this documentary want it both ways.
    By Stephanie Zacharek October 26, 2001

  • The awful truth

    "Local News," a probing five-part PBS documentary on a Charlotte, N.C., TV station, is a bleak look at a possibly unsalvageable institution.
    By Charles Taylor October 9, 2001
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