Documentary film

Playwright Drew Hayden Taylor on his new documentary Cottagers & Indians

Late Night in the Studio: trippy, tonally perfect Canadian comedy

Bully, coward, victim: How Roy Cohn explains the Trump era

Apple TV+ doc Dads is a sincere look at fatherhood – and a home movie for Hollywood’s Howard family

You Don’t Nomi strips Showgirls’s infamous reputation bare

Screened Out takes you through real-life horror of children’s pervasive screen addiction

Hot Docs 2020: The 10 best documentary bets for an unprecedented online film festival experience

Little Fires Everywhere: Incendiary angst in the suburbs

Influence: The story of the most wicked man in the world

The Last Dance may be a vanity project, but that doesn’t preclude it from being a masterpiece

The Painter and the Thief is the best documentary of the year, if you could fairly call it a documentary

Journalism documentary This Is Not a Movie plays like Robert Fisk’s greatest hits and misses

Documentary Beyond Moving chronicles a real-life, and Canadian-made, Billy Elliot story of hope

Netflix’s new Trial by Media fails to convict the media

Biosphere doc Spaceship Earth is an endlessly curious, wildly fascinating film for our sealed-inside era

Toronto’s Hot Docs going online-only for 2020 festival

Netflix’s Michelle Obama documentary Becoming is nothing more than a commercial for the former first family

Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans finds an unexpected audience – Alberta’s oil industry

CBC and Hot Docs’ Finding Sally digs deep into Ethiopia’s diplomatic past for a whopper of a family secret

The secret love story of a real-life League of Their Own player from Canada