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  1. mama!
    Hey, Mama! How to With John Wilson Season 2 Debuts This FallShould’ve been called How 2 With John Wilson.
    By Rebecca Alter
  2. apologies
    CBS Is Changing The Activist Into a Documentary, Not a Competition“We got it wrong,” Global Citizen said in a statement.
    By Bethy Squires
  3. you oughta know
    Alanis Morissette Says HBO Doc Jagged Has ‘Facts That Are Simply Not True’“I ultimately won’t be supporting someone else’s reductive take on a story much too nuanced for them to ever grasp or tell.”
    By Zoe Haylock
  4. me too
    Alanis Morissette Speaks on Experiencing Statutory Rape in New Doc“Now I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, they’re all pedophiles. It’s all statutory rape.’”
    By Bethy Squires
  5. theranos
    A Deeply Creepy GIF Guide to HBO’s Elizabeth Holmes DocumentaryNot for the faint of heart. Or anybody who’s afraid of needles.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  6. theranos
    Why the Errol Morris Shade in Alex Gibney’s The Inventor Is So BrutalHere’s what lies behind those Interrotron shots.
    By Emily Yoshida
  7. trailer mix
    Watch Janet Jackson’s Janet Documentary Trailer, If You’re Nasty“This is my story, told by me. Not through someone else’s eyes.”
    By Devon Ivie
  8. take a look!
    New Reading Rainbow Documentary Will Give You Your Fill of LeVar BurtonWho needs a Jeopardy! hosting gig when you can hit the big screen?
    By Justin Curto
  9. wait what
    What Is Going On in Spike Lee’s 9/11 HBO Docuseries?NYC Epicenters 9/11–2021 ½ courted controversy before it even aired. Here’s what to know before watching.
    By Chris Vognar
  10. trailer mix
    Selma Blair Thought She Was Filming ‘the Final Days of My Life’ for Her DocWatch the affecting yet humorous trailer.
    By Devon Ivie
  11. everybody loves puppets!
    Lamb Chop to Steal the Show Once Again in Shari Lewis DocumentaryBy the director of Love, Gilda.
    By Justin Curto
  12. vulture sports
    A24, the Steph Curry of Production Companies, Is Making a Steph Curry DocRyan Coogler is also set to produce the doc, called Underrated.
    By Rebecca Alter
  13. movie review
    Val Doesn’t Know Who Val Kilmer Is, and That’s a Good ThingA moving new documentary about the elusive life and career of an endlessly fascinating actor.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  14. review
    We’re Still Getting Woodstock ’99 WrongHBO’s Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage documentary feels drunk on chaos.
    By Craig Jenkins
  15. documentaries
    Lena Waithe Is Gonna Make It (a Mary Tyler Moore Documentary) After AllThe documentary will be directed by James Adolphus.
    By Rebecca Alter
  16. parts unknown
    The Most Surprising Stories From the Anthony Bourdain Doc RoadrunnerMorgan Neville’s film, which includes extensive unseen footage of the chef, attempts to piece together a person and a tragedy.
    By Lisa Liebman
  17. documentaries
    Eddie Braun Attempts to Finish What Evel Knievel Started in Stuntman TrailerThe Disney+ documentary follows Braun as he attempts one of the most dangerous stunts of his career.
    By Cydney Lee
  18. some reservations
    Posthumous Anthony Bourdain Doc Used ‘AI Model’ of Chef’s VoiceHighbrow-despicable deepfake.
    By Emily Palmer Heller
  19. trailer mix
    Through Our Eyes Trailer Shows Social Issues From a Kid’s LensThe first documentary from Sesame Workshop.
    By Zoe Haylock
  20. trailer mix
    Madame X Is a Movie Star in Madonna Tour Film TrailerThe Madame X documentary hits Paramount+ on October 8.
    By Justin Curto
  21. trailer mix
    Don’t Blink and Miss Blackpink’s The Movie TrailerOut August 4 ahead of the band’s five-year anniversary on August 8.
    By Justin Curto
  22. trailer mix
    Pray Away Trailer Features Regretful Leaders of the ‘Ex-Gay’ Movement“A voice inside me said, ‘How can you do this to your own people?’”
    By Zoe Haylock
  23. mummies
    Iggy Pop Is Narrating a Documentary About King TutankhamunWas Steve Martin busy?
    By Bethy Squires
  24. trailer mix
    Relive the Fall of Butt Rock with HBO’s Woodstock 99 DocHell hath no fury like dehydrated Limp Bizkit fans.
    By Bethy Squires
  25. trailer mix
    Watch a Parade of Val Kilmers (and One Mark Twain) in the Val TrailerGo behind the scenes on Top Gun, Batman Forever, and more.
    By Bethy Squires
  26. vulture lists
    11 Noteworthy Documentaries Celebrating LGBTQ+ WomenFrom 1920s lesbians appreciating art in Paris to a retired Illinois couple coming out after six decades together.
    By Emily Maskell
  27. unpacking genius
    Two Documentaries About Legendary Performers Touch the Surface of Their TalentA pair of films explore the artistic legacy of Alvin Ailey and Rita Moreno, but both demonstrate the limitations of trying to explicate genius.
    By Helen Shaw
  28. the streaming wars
    Beatles Documentary Get Back to Come Together on Disney+ in NovemberIt’s six-plus hours of footage.
    By Justin Curto
  29. tribeca festival
    Watch a Clip of The One and Only Dick Gregory Before Its Juneteenth PremiereAfter the Tribeca Festival, it makes its Showtime premiere on July 4.
    By Rebecca Alter
  30. trailer mix
    Anthony Bourdain Leaves No Parts Unknown in His Roadrunner Documentary Trailer“Travel isn’t always pretty. You go away, you learn, you get scarred, marked, changed in the process.”
    By Devon Ivie
  31. top dog
    This Val Kilmer Documentary Has Been Shooting for 40 YearsHe recorded “thousands” of hours of footage.
    By Devon Ivie
  32. dave chappelle
    Dave Chappelle’s New Documentary Will Close Out the Tribeca Film FestivalRadio City Music Hall will open its doors for the first time since the pandemic for the event.
    By Rebecca Alter
  33. music documentaries
    What’s Really Worth Remembering About 1971’s Historic Year in MusicAsif Kapadia’s Apple TV+ documentary is just a more serious I Love the ‘70s, a fun and often compelling walk down memory lane.
    By Brady Gerber
  34. roll clip!
    Watch Pink and Her Children Frolic Through Europe in Her New Documentary“The only way I can justify dragging my family all over the world is that we’re making memories together.”
    By Justin Curto
  35. trailer mix
    Sparks Get a Hero’s and Weirdo’s Welcome in Edgar Wright’s Documentary Trailer“All pop music is rearranged Sparks, that’s the truth.”
    By Devon Ivie
  36. celebrity
    Britney Criticizes All These ‘Hypocritical’ Documentaries About Britney“Why highlight the most negative and traumatizing times in my life from forever ago????”
    By Halle Kiefer
  37. music documentaries
    Visit Texas With Miranda Lambert & Co. in Marfa Tapes FilmThe documentary premieres May 8 at 7 p.m. ET, and will only be available for 24 hours.
    By Justin Curto
  38. movie review
    Here’s a Movie About a Pig That Might Change Your LifeExecutive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, Viktor Kossakovsky’s powerful Gunda doesn’t try to make its animals human. It lets them be themselves.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  39. trailer mix
    Rita Moreno Is Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It in Her Documentary TrailerAnd we’re along for the ride.
    By Devon Ivie
  40. docuseries
    Kanye Docuseries With Decades of Footage Reportedly Bought by NetflixOne of the directors has followed West since the late 1990s.
    By Justin Curto
  41. dancing with the devil
    The Biggest Revelations From Demi Lovato’s Documentary Dancing With the DevilFinally, her unfiltered truth.
    By Ilana Kaplan
  42. trailer mix
    Street Gang Trailer: Jim Henson and His Beard Spread JoyThe Sesame Street doc premieres in theaters on April 23, and on demand May 7.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  43. good one podcast
    Do We Really Need Documentaries About ‘Women in Comedy’?On this week’s Good One, Vulture critic Kathryn VanArendonk discusses one of comedy’s most exhausting topics.
    By Jesse David Fox and Kathryn VanArendonk
  44. docs
    Brittany Murphy Documentary on Her Life and ‘Mysterious’ Death Coming to HBO MaxIt’ll be told in two parts.
    By Devon Ivie
  45. gimme more
    The BBC Is Working On a #FreeBritney Documentary of Its OwnBAFTA-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar will travel the U.S., speaking to fans behind the movement.
    By Zoe Haylock
  46. trailer mix
    HBO Rolls Out a Trailer for Tina DocumentaryThe special premieres on March 27.
    By Justin Curto
  47. backstories
    How Allen v Farrow Obtained Never-Before-Seen Home Videotapes and Lost Documents“There was a cover-up of mass proportion.”
    By Nick Allen
  48. review
    Biggie’s Story Finally Gets a Proper RetellingNetflix’s new documentary I Got a Story to Tell visualizes the making of the artist more than the unmaking.
    By Craig Jenkins
  49. the world’s a little blurry
    9 Things We Learn About Billie Eilish in Her New DocumentaryA secret boyfriend, her dream car, and crying into Justin Bieber’s arms.
    By Charlotte Walsh
  50. operation varsity blues
    Netflix Announces College Admissions Scandal Doc From Makers of Tiger KingAnd Lori Loughlin’s been sprung from prison in time to watch it.
    By Rebecca Alter
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