It gets dull after a while, but the contextโa Soviet fabricated show trial ordered by Stalin to frame and prosecute โanti-communistsโ in the eyes of the publicโis still an eye-opening look at character assassination on a national, ideological level, nearly a century ago.
Women meet politics as they bravely fight against rampant sexual assaults and for a more progressive country in this intimate home video-style, if sometimes unfocused, documentary about the aftermath of the Cairo Revolution.
Edited entirely from restored archival footage of Stalinโs state funeral, this is a cinema of profound sadness and a towering achievement from one of the great screen chroniclers of Soviet history.
The only entirely female-run news outlet in India is the subject of this inspiring documentary about the perseverance and courage of a close-knit team of Dalit women (born to the lowest caste) who are challenging deep-rooted traditions, toxic patriarchy and corruption through their firebrand style of justice-based grassroots journalism.
This beautifully-shot documentary is a visual tone poem, as filmmaker Elizabeth Lo tenderly captures several street dogs in Turkey, almost entirely from the โdogโs eyeโ view.
An (in)famous Buddhist temple is in crisis as religion meets politics at the heart of Thai society in this revealing documentary.
You wonโt believe that a documentary centering entirely on a masked man with a notepad in a motel room can be so compellingโand harrowingโas Rosi gives us a shocking exposรฉ on the inner workings of drug cartels in Mexico.
Despite not having a strong central focus and being rather all over the placeโquite literally so as it covers volcanoes around the worldโHerzogโs documentary remains eye-opening and culturally illuminating as it explores the myths and cults surrounding these fiery beasts of nature.
Nomadland before Nomadland, Rosiโs raw, no holds barred documentary on folks living in isolation on buses and vans in the Californian desert finds grace and empathy in their existence.
Thereโs something very deeply moving and universal about Jiaโs seemingly mundane documentary about the stories of workers (and their children) who used to ply their trade in a Chengdu factory that had made way for new commercial development as China rapidly modernised in the 2000s.
Eternality Tan 