Even non-climbing enthusiasts will fall in love with Tommy Caldwell in this well-made documentary as he and his climbing partner attempt to free climb a route up the legendary El Capitan that had been deemed impossible to scale.
This heartfelt, partially-animated documentary centering on a Japanese man who lost his wife in the 2011 tsunami doesnโt have any pretensions and works because of its sincerity.
Pasolini asks the Italian public very bold and awkward questions about sexโand all of its political, social, economic and cultural implicationsโin this superb and highly-entertaining documentary survey.
More of a compilation of past concert performances (albeit in stunning audiovisual quality) than a documentary of new insight and depth, this will please and frustrate fans in equal measure.
This is pedagogy as cinemaโan unobtrusive and highly-rewarding documentary centering on a veteran teacher and his ethnically-diverse students in a small town in Germany, earning every compelling bit of its nearly four-hour runtime.
Scorseseโs entertaining Bob Dylan documentary doesnโt really go very deep but it is an indelible time capsule as it tracks the legendary artisteโs defining 1975 tour across America.
Watching and listening to farm animals can be surprisingly cinematic in this immersive dialogue-free new documentary by Kossakovsky that seems to exist outside of time, even as it startlingly reminds us that these animals have fates they canโt control.
This entertaining Kenyan documentary about a political activist-cum-family man running for election is tightly-constructed and highly-illuminating as it explores how politics is synonymous with corruption and violence, but also the desire for change.
Football as cinema, if only barely, as the director and his father talk about the latterโs refereeing of the game, and by extension, Romaniaโs late โ80s political history in this uneventful and uncompelling documentary.
This inspirational Oscar-winning documentary shows us that nature is our best teacherโthat we are fully capable of adapting and changing for the better if only we had the wisdom to do so.
Eternality Tan 