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‘School Life’ Offers Enrollment in Joy John and Amanda Leyden have been teaching at Ireland’s Headfort School since the early 1970s.

Neasa Ni Chianain and David Rane's 'School Life' is a joyous look at life in an Irish boarding school, and it's now streaming free on YouTube. Here's our review from Sundance '17: buff.ly/2M2mlwN

'Bully' is now streaming for free on YouTube

You can also find the film on this list of documentaries that best represent the good and bad about student life and the education system: buff.ly/4ZY7AmS

'Mistress Dispeller' begins streaming on The Criterion Channel today. You can find our take on the film here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...

For Ron Fricke's birthday, we recommend watching 'Baraka' (currently streaming free with ads on Prime Video, Tubi, and Fandango at Home). It's on this list of our favorite documentaries about our planet: buff.ly/4i562eg

'The Space Movie' is now streaming for free on YouTube.

It's a product of its time, a zany, off-kilter, and often vapid look at space travel. It's also on this list of the best documentaries about space travel: buff.ly/cSK7kgI

On this date in 1987, Peter Watkins' 'Resan' (literally "The Journey" but sometimes referred to as "The War Game 2”) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.

You can now watch the 14-hour-and-33-minute documentary in parts on YouTube here: buff.ly/4kbKNt2

“This film has Joe Strummer talking and singing in it. Anything that has Joe Strummer in it is automatically the best movie ever.” - Fred Armisen on 'Joe Strummer, The Future is Unwritten,' which is now streaming free on YouTube.

Find more of Armisen's favorite documentaries here: bit.ly/2OLSrgW

On director Jennie Livingston's birthday, we recommend watching 'Paris is Burning' (currently on The Criterion Channel and Max), which tops this list of the best documentary portraits of LGBT culture: buff.ly/3WMHXRg

'Marcella,' about Italian cooking legend Marcella Hazan, is now streaming on Kanopy

You can find our review of the film here: ift.tt/ZQWYFs6

The 25 Best Documentaries Of 2025 We take a final look back at the year and choose our favorite 25 doc releases.

See where the film ranks on our list of the best documentaries of last year: www.nonfics.com/p/best-docum...

Julia Loktev's 'My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow' will debut exclusively on Mubi on April 3. And 'My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile' will arrive on the streamer later this year.

Here's our review of Part I: www.nonfics.com/p/my-undesir...

'Megadoc,' about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis,' is now streaming on Kanopy.

Find our take on the film here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...

These exceptional films focus on true cases of murder, drugs, identity theft, art forgery, kidnapping, and the mishandling of justice. www.nonfics.com/p/crime-docu...

With 'The Wolfpack' now streaming on Tubi, here's our interview with director Crystal Moselle about the documentary and forgoing the traditional filmmaker-subject relationship: bit.ly/2rj6u4D

Alex Ross Perry's 'Pavements' is now available to stream on Kanopy.

Read our take on the hybrid music film here: buff.ly/rGAd8Fv

And see where it lands on our ranking of the best documentaries of 2025 so far: www.nonfics.com/p/best-docum...

Have a laugh with these 10 necessary documentaries about funny people: www.nonfics.com/p/10-necessa...

On this date in 1983, Chris Marker's 'Sans Soleil' premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Watch it now on The Criterion Channel or Kanopy and see how high it ranks on critics and filmmakers' lists of the best documentaries of all time here: buff.ly/4hIm8u7

For choreographer Elizabeth Streb's birthday today, we recommend watching the documentary 'Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity,' which is available to stream on Kanopy and Kino Film Collection. Read our review: buff.ly/3Xd9QSL

Today in Documentary

'The Inquisitor' debuts on PBS via 'Independent Lens'
'The CEO Club' premieres on Prime Video
'Homecoming: The Tokyo Series' is in theaters for two days only
'Threshold' is on Peacock

Find more to watch: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...

5 documentaries about the environment that will surprise you www.nonfics.com/p/5-document...

Other documentaries on the box office chart this weekend:
'Natchez' passed the $100k mark.
'Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It' opened with $15k in one location, giving it the best per-screen average of all movies.

Baz Luhrmann's 'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert' was the top-grossing documentary over the weekend with $3.3 million.

If none of that came from you, we recommend going to see it in IMAX this week. Read our review here: www.nonfics.com/p/epic-elvis...

“I love 'Land Without Bread,' and Buñuel period, but I just love what he did with that.”

Watch the film for Buñuel's birthday today, at the recommendation of Alex Winter, who shares his favorite docs here: buff.ly/42F0eUf

'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' just won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary!

Check out our review of the film, which is now available to rent digitally: www.nonfics.com/p/mr-nobody-...

And see where it ranks on the list of the best documentaries of 2025 here: www.nonfics.com/p/best-docum...

The artist known as JR celebrates his birthday today.

Watch 'Faces Places,' which he co-directed with Agnès Varda (the film is streaming free on Kanopy) and read our review here: buff.ly/4beoYF3

Jonathan Demme's final feature, ‘Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids,’ should also arguably rank among the greatest concert films of all time. Read our review: buff.ly/3vdedzQ

Jonathan Demme, born on this date in 1944, was best known for directing 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Philadelphia.' But he is also well-remembered for helming two of the best concert films of all time, both of which land in our top five here: buff.ly/2WdNpef

‘Anthropocene’ Introduces the Darkest Man-Made Wonders of the World Astonishment.

For Edward Burtynsky's birthday today, we recommend 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, which he co-directed with Nicholas de Pencier and Jennifer Baichwal. Watch it on Kanopy or Kino Film Collection and read our review here: buff.ly/439c7BX

Singer-songwriter and musician Genesis P-Orridge was born on this date in 1950.

Watch them in 'The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye,' which is streaming via Kino Film Collection. It's one of the best documentary portraits of LGBT culture, listed here: buff.ly/4i4MPdb

Morgan Neville's 'Man on the Run,' about Paul McCartney's post-Beatles career through the '70s and new band Wings, is playing in theaters today for one last time before hitting Prime Video on Friday.

Find more documentary listings here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...