Leading Documentaries in 2019
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s Obamas-produced portrait of post-recession Middle-America, American Factory (Netflix);
Todd Douglas Miller’s lunar landing chronicle, Apollo 11 (Neon);
Nanfu Wang’s Chinese social study, One Child Nation (Amazon);
John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm (Neon);
Feras Fayyad’s The Cave (NatGeo)
Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s Honeyland (Neon);
Lauren Greenfield’s The Kingmaker (Showtime);
Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House (Netflix);
Richard Ladkani’s Sea of Shadows (NatGeo);
Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona (HBO);
Petra Costa’s The Edge of Democracy (Netflix);
Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ For Sama (PBS);
Alex Holmes’ Maiden (Sony Classics)
Philippe Bellaiche and Rachel Leah Jones’ Advocate (Film Movement);
Roger Ross Williams’ The Apollo (HBO);
Ryan White’s Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu);
Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone’s The Elephant Queen (Apple);
Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim’s The Great Hack (Netflix);
Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family (1091 Media);
Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old (Warner Bros.)