10 Great “Accidental Documentaries” of New York City’s Sketchiest Era

Today, New York’s Film Forum begins a fabulous new retrospective series, “Ford to City: Drop Dead – New York in the 70s,” which draws its title from the notorious New York Daily News headline paraphrasing of President Gerald Ford’s response to the city’s 1975 request for federal funding assistance. The headline was a simplification of […]

17 True Crime Documentaries That'll Make You Poop Your Pants

Recently, we asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their favourite true crime documentaries. Here are some of the creepiest answers. 1.Killer Legends View this image › “This documentary goes through four creepy urban legends everyone’s heard of and laughed off, and explores how they originated. More specifically, it looks at the actual […]

10 Great Documentaries about Weirdos, Outsiders, and Eccentrics

So . . . this is life after S-Town — the podcast that everyone and their mother is listening to right now, but you probably binged in a few days. Since then, you’ve scoured the internet for photos of (spoiler alert) John B. McLemore’s insane tattoo and stunning hedge maze. You’ve reconsidered moving to a […]

Multi-Part Documentaries Like ‘O.J.: Made in America’ No Longer Eligible to Win Oscars

One of the biggest film-related arguments of the past year was whether or not Ezra Edelman’s superlative documentary O.J.: Made in America should have been eligible for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. There were passionate advocates on both sides, and the nearly eight-hour doc ended up winning the Oscar. But it seems like that argument may only happen […]

33 documentaries on Netflix right now that will make you smarter

IFC Films One of the great things about Netflix is that it has brought thoughtful, compelling documentaries to a much wider audience, which filmmakers could only dream of a decade ago. And with binge-worthy titles from “Amanda Knox” to “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster” being just a click away, you can get a lot of […]