Documentary film

Weekend TV: One new dour mystery and every Canadian performer alive

Netflix’s Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story is a welcome shift from the streaming giant’s lurid true-crime docs

Circus of Books and 9/11 Kids: Two great stories of growing up in strange circumstances in the U.S.

9/11 Kids looks at American life through the eyes of the children sitting with George Bush that morning

The U.S. response to coronavirus distilled: Washington state versus Washington, D.C.

Fake-art doc Made You Look sharply stokes skepticism of the one per cent’s favourite hobby

Documentary Made You Look explores the fine art of fake art, while its premiere blurs the line of how we view art in the first place

Hot Docs announces 2020 lineup, but with a twist

Ellen Page confronts environmental injustice in Nova Scotia with urgent new documentary

Gerrymandering documentary Slay the Dragon turns politics’ least sexy word into a cri de coeur

New HBO documentary Kill Chain shows the cyberwar on America’s elections is very real

The Internet of Everything: A much-needed cautionary tale about what the internet does

Michael Apted’s 63 Up marks the remarkable end to a remarkable work of documentary art

Documentary Nomad wonders if only all our lives were chronicled by Werner Herzog

Roger Federer says he suffered ‘breakdown’ after Colombia exhibition match was cancelled

Agnès Varda’s final film gives the French auteur the due she’s been owed her entire career

True crime: The life and times of yoga monster Bikram Choudhury

The legend of Gordon Lightfoot lives on, as does he

Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival doubles down on gender parity and diversity with 2019 lineup

Despite the odds, the Hot Docs Cinema has become a financial success story