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The Best Documentaries of 2025: Come See Them, Hopefully in a Theatre

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 5, 2025
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The best documentaries of 2025 include Come See Me in the Good Light, The Tale of Silyan, Endless Cookie, Cover-up, and Coexistence, My Ass!

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The Best Documentaries of 2024: Ringing in a Tumultuous Year

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 12, 2024
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The best documentaries of 2024 include Mountain Queen, Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, Mistress Dispeller, Dahomey, Daughters, Yintah, and No Other Land.

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The Best Documentaries of 2023: A Year in Review

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 21, 2023
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The best documentaries of 2023 include Milisuthando, The Mother of All Lies, 20 Days in Mariupol, Swan Song, and Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros.

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POV’s Top Reads of 2022: What Drives Doc Readers’ Interest?

by Pat Mullen
December 27, 2022
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The most popular reads of 2022 include articles on Island of the Sea Wolves, Jihad Rehab, Deconstructing Karen, Tantura, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

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The Best Documentaries of 2022: A Year in Review

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 16, 2022
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Fire of Love top POV's list for the best documentaries of 2022.

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The Best Documentaries of 2021: A Year in Review

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 24, 2021
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Flee, Summer of Soul, and The Velvet Underground lead the picks for the best documentaries of 2021.

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The Best Documentaries of 2020

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
December 24, 2020
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The best documentaries of 2020 include Boys State, The Viewing Booth, Collective, Pahokee, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, 76 Days, The Truffle Hunters, and Wintopia.

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The Best Canadian Documentaries of 2019

by Marc Glassman
December 26, 2019
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The standout Canadian docs of 2019 include nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, This Is Not a Movie, The Corporate Coup d'État, Toxic Beauty, and Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies.

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The Best International Documentaries of 2019

by Pat Mullen
December 26, 2019
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POV's picks for the best international docs of 2019 include One Child Nation, American Factory, For Sama, Honeyland, Apollo 11, Desert One, Rolling Thunder Revue, and more!

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The Top 10 Documentaries of 2018

by Pat Mullen
December 27, 2018
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Call 2018 the year of the documentary. One story for docs this year was their incredible box office success with four non-fiction films cracking the $10 million mark. Those films, Won’t You Be

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