It’s hard to remember any year for documentaries quite like 2021 — and not just because the overall quality was so high. This year, an unusual number of non-fiction films set off spirited public ...

It would be easy to try to find some magic throughline between the best documentaries of 2021. Sure, on some basic level, all of these films and TV series are about connection. They show how we relate ...

We’ve never been too crazy about the phrase “embarrassment of riches.” Why the embarrassment? Can you really have too much of a good thing? When it comes to documentaries, we think you can’t, so we ...

We’ve never been too crazy about the phrase “embarrassment of riches.” Why the embarrassment? Can you really have too much of a good thing? When it comes to documentaries, we think you can’t, so we ...

In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate critic Carl Wilson emails about the year in music with fellow critics — featuring New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, freelance writer Briana Younger, NPR ...

The chase for eyeballs has been a boon for eardrums. 2021 produced so many first-rate music documentaries that a film on the “Black Woodstock” (Questlove’s revelatory “Summer of Soul”) was quickly ...

Documentaries brought us closer to musicians this year, and it wasn’t always pretty. By Jon Pareles The pandemic, it seems, sent certain enterprising music lovers into editing rooms. For those still ...