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The eleventh edition of DOC NYC is running online from November 11-19 and available to viewers across the US. The 2020 festival includes 107 feature-length documentaries.
View Films by Strand:
- American Perspectives
- Arts & Culture
- Behind The Scenes
- Fight The Power
- International Perspectives
- Investigations
- Jock Docs
- Masters
- Metropolis
- Portraits
- Short List
- Sonic Cinema
- Spotlight On Canada
- Viewfinders
- Winner's Circle
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DOC NYC Latest Reviews
Fed up with misdeeds committed by Chicago law enforcement and a political system unwilling to hold anyone accountable, two millennial Black women take action.
Just 70 miles north of the Mexican-US border is a land haunted by ghosts. Brooks County, Texas is a barren landscape designed as a deterrent to illegal crossings, but people continue to attempt to cross, and many die trying.
The story of a lasting bond formed between an unjustly arrested Black man, Gary Duncan, and Richard Sobol, his young Jewish attorney.
In a dilapidated corner of Alexandria, an exceptional community of young female weightlifters is trained by the grumpy yet charismatic Captain Ramadan.
With this inventive portrait, a cameraperson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilising moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humour, she celebrates Dr Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
Profile of big-wave surfer Joana Andrade.
When their hacker son is targeted by the US Government, the DeHarts will do anything to protect him.
Fox Rich fights for her husband’s release from jail, after he is sentenced to 60 years of incarceration for a bank robbery, a crime she also served time for in the Nineties.
Portrait of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is serving a prison sentence of 38 years in Iran for representing women who protested the country’s mandatory hijab law.
In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
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