My favorite documentaries of 2019:
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- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
- The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
- Black Mother
- The Image Book
- Los Reyes
- The Kingmaker
- Varda by Agnès
- Apollo 11
- 63 Up
- América
- For Sama
- Fyre
- Cold Case Hammarskjöld
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- Framing John DeLorean
- Wrestle
- Midnight Traveler
- The Competition
- The Disappearance of My Mother
- Island of the Hungry Ghosts
- Walking on Water
- Meeting Gorbachev
- Carmine Street Guitars
- Mike Wallace Is Here
- American Factory
- Screwball
- Hail Satan?
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
- 5B
- Citizen K
- The Biggest Little Farm
- Maiden
- Combat Obscura
- The Edge of Democracy
- Knock Down the House
- The Hottest August
- Midnight Family
- Pavarotti
- Sea of Shadows
- Cassandro, the Exotico!
- Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
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The rest of my 2019 documentary viewing-log, listed in a totally random order:
- Ask Dr. Ruth
- The Inventor
- The Brink
- Buddy
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
- They Shall Not Grow Old
- Wall
- Rezo
- Touch Me Not
- Amazing Grace
- Prosecuting Evil
- Halston
- Decade of Fire
- The Silence of Others
- The Eyes of Orson Welles
- What Is Democracy?
- Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation
- The Raft
- Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
- The Proposal
- Penguins
- The Invisibles
- Who Will Write Our History?
- The Spy Behind Home Plate
- Echo in the Canyon
- Nureyev
- The Quiet One
- Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
- General Magic
- David Crosby: Remember My Name
- Honeyland
- The Great Hack
- One Child Nation
- Love, Antosha
- Aquarela
- What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?
- Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
- Jawline
- Jay Myself
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
- Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
- Another Day of Life
- Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
- Where’s My Roy Cohn?
- Always in Season
- Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
- Memory: The Origin of Alien
- The Cave
- Western Stars
- American Dharma
- Diego Maradona
- Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer
- Shooting the Mafia
- Fantastic Fungi
- Cunningham
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
- Advocate
- Roll Red Roll
- The Apollo