As the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its fiftieth edition, our writers pick fifty documentaries that helped define the festival in its first five decades.
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An interview with It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley director Amy Berg on her years in the making documentary about the late singer and the women in his life.
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The lingering effects of nuclear fallout across generations from Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Test Site is considered in the well-meaning documentary We Live Here.
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Heritage, a portrait of two Iranian siblings caring for their ailing parents, makes the ordinary extraordinary.
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A filmmaker explores a family secret above a relative whose existence was long hidden from her, and the culture of silence behind the loss, in My Missing Aunt.
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Powerful documentary The Last Ambassador observes Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan's only female ambassador, as she fights for women's voices back home.
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Ashima follows young rock climber Ashima Shiraish as she achieves rare feats for a 13-year-old ingenue of the sport.
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Home Court follows Princeton Tigers basketball star Ashley Crea and the story of her Cambodian family.
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Resident Orca chronicles the fight to free orca Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut from captivity in the Miami Seaquariaum.
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Fairy Creek observes the historic protests over old growth logging in B.C. and the complexity of privilege entailed within factions of activism.
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