The 20 best documentaries on Netflix The Last Dance, Knock Down the House, and Disclosure : add them to your list.
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Escapism is bliss, but knowledge is power.
It s why the humble documentary is more important than ever, unearthing truths, offering different perspectives, and introducing you to stories you might not have come across in your short time on this planet.Â
Netflix s documentary offerings are strong stuff, with many of the streaming service s films and series proving some the most talked about watches of certain times in our lives â if you managed to miss the whole
Gunda are a few of the films nominated for the 14th annual Cinema Eye Honors.
Time (pictured), Bradley’s portrait of a family’s struggle over years of incarceration, was nominated for six Cinema Eye Honors, including outstanding feature, direction, editing, score and debut.
Both Nanau’s
Collective – about journalists who uncovered health care fraud in the wake of a deadly nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania, in 2015 and Kossakovsky’s
Gunda which follows the daily life of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged chicken had four nominations and joined
Time in being nominated for best feature, direction and editing.
we can hike up and slide down. first turns of the year. first turns in the alps. first turns. and being filmed by three cameras. no pressure. and leading me down is a man who understands ice and change and loss better than anyone. so this is you. this is you. his name is ensen beau. and he is a living legends. he was making some of the first runs in the most impossible corners of the alps. and he summed up his early philosophy beautifully in the film steep.
behold the exuberance of a glacier climbing rookie. amazing! but providing thrills to goofballs in gortex is far from the most important rule of glaciers. these alps are the water tower of europe. around the globe glaciers provide drinking water and irrigation for hundreds of millions. so the thought of losing them is what animates people like ann. so when is the last time you were here. this place, 20 years ago. so it s been a little while. do you notice changes? my god, it s unbelievable. it s still very beautiful, but the glacier was all in front of us, all this rock face was covered with snow and ice. now it s retreated not only in length but also in thickness, you know, you can see that if this was covered in ice how much