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Northshore Recovery High School, students are greeted with hugs and “I love yous” from their principal. They text their teachers, telling them that they spent the night before smoking weed or popping pills.

Robin Williams’ death by suicide shocked the world. The comedic genius who voiced Aladdin’s genie in the Disney cartoon and donned drag for “Mrs.

told “Entertainment Tonight” before the release of “Robin’s Wish,” a documentary chronicling the comedic actor’s final months before he committed suicide in August 2014.“We saw that Robin was struggling in a way that he hadn’t before to remember lines and to combine the right words with the performance,” Levy said.

Blindspot: The Road to 9/11,” is hosted by WNYC reporter Jim O’Grady and is co-produced in partnership with WNYC Studios. It will debut Sept.

“Boys State,” that is now streaming.New Jersey alone counts Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, former Gov. Chris Christie, Sen.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is teaming with “Knocked Up” creator Judd Apatow to make a two-part documentary on legendary US comedian George Carlin, with UK outfit Rise Films producing alongside Apatow Productions.HBO Documentary Films has commissioned Apatow and his longtime collaborator Michael Bonfiglio to direct the films, which will feature interviews with Carlin’s family and friends, material from his stand-up specials and TV appearances, as well as material from his personal archive.Born in New York

Audrie & Daisy, an essential look at the effects of sexual assault on two young women, to a series that explores women's experiences in the porn industry, many of these films will expand your mind and open your world. Others will make you feel seen. Whatever you take away from these 10 good documentaries on Netflix, the films will show you a brutally real portraits of the world we live in.

premiering Friday on Showtime, runs down the band’s rocky history: the artistic clashes, the messy breakups and, most pervasively, the drinks and drugs.The iconic image of the “Vacation” music video, with the women on water-skis wearing pink swimsuits and white tutus, was an apt depiction of the band, as it turns out.

EXCLUSIVE: Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix have teamed up with “Cowspiracy” filmmaker Keegan Kuhn and BAFTA Award-winning director Alex Lockwood, to executive produce, “The End of Medicine,” a new feature-length documentary about zoonotic diseases, which threaten the health and lives of the entire human population.The doc began production in October 2019, months before Covid-19 was making headlines around the world and touches on the disease, which is when germs and viruses that spread between

hip-hop mogul Master P by his grandmother when he was a kid. And judging by how he built his No Limit Records empire — a journey that is covered in the new BET docuseries “No Limit Chronicles,” premiering Wednesday at 9 p.m.

premiering this week on Netflix, Fox, 39, examines how the money moves, where it goes — and how much is generated.“The total global trade in illegal drugs is between $426 and $652 billion,” she said. “That makes it the second most lucrative illicit market after counterfeit goods.”Here is how four drugs generate big bank.The global cannabis market, including legal and illegal iterations of the drug, is estimated by Fox to be worth up to $287 billion.

HBO documentary series has provoked a backlash in the doc community due to a lack of above-the-line diversity on the project.The “Tiger” series is being co-helmed by Oscar-nominated “City Of Ghosts” and “A Private War” filmmaker Matthew Heineman and the Emmy-nominated Matthew Hamachek.

cleansing” has threatened the survival of LGBTQ people living inside the Chechen Republic. The nation’s Putin-supported leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, proudly denies the purge, despite reports from victims, survivors, and their families of brutal atrocities.

featured in its six new episodes — a mere day after the show’s Netflix revival, which premiered last Wednesday.“It’s been 24 hours,” UM’s executive producer Terry Dunn Meurer told USA Today, adding that he promises to pass the credible tips “on to the appropriate authorities.” Among the useable tips was info pertaining to alleged suicide victim Rey Rivera and Alonzo Brooks, whose body was discovered in a creek after the 23-year-old attended a party in Kansas.

Peacock, NBC’s new streaming platform, “In Deep” covers the now-infamous incident at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil when the bleached-blonde Lochte — a 12-time Olympic medalist — falsely claimed to have been robbed at gunpoint.He was subsequently dropped by his sponsors and was suspended by USA Swimming for 10 months from competing in domestic and international competitions.

featuring politician, lawyer and author Stacey Abrams. The doc comes from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lisa Cortés, and the plan is for Amazon to release the doc in theaters prior to this year’s US Presidential election.

most-popular ESPN documentary in history.Johnson’s life could rival Jordan’s in terms of sheer drama. Not only did Johnson rack up three MVP titles, 12 All Star games and one Olympic gold medal over the course of his career, he became a powerful advocate for HIV/AIDS research, treatment and prevention after announcing in 1991 that he was HIV positive.

The Black Lives Matter movement is not just about the unlawful deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. It’s about 400 years of oppression and systemic racism against black people in the United States by citizens, laws and law enforcement.

Hospitals have always been filled with heroes, even before the COVID-19 pandemic set in.

Dream Hampton, the executive producer of Lifetime’s record-breaking documentary “Surviving R. Kelly,” has been attached to direct and executive produce a Cineflix Productions mini-series on the Tulsa race massacre.

The story of Aaron Hernandez, the New England Patriots star turned convicted murderer, always comes down to why.

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During most of their 72-year relationship, Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel told family and co-workers they were good friends and roommates.

Film star Natalie Wood has been dead nearly 40 years, but her ghost still casts a long shadow — and it’s going to walk the earth again as her eldest daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, simultaneously releases a new memoir and a new documentary.

Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” is quickly becoming this season’s most anticipated streaming release.

For more than three decades, the West Hollywood gay porn shop Circus of Books was a safe space for the LGBTQ community to socialize and celebrate themselves, and maybe get a little frisky with each other behind the bookstore.

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While much of the fascination with 's Tiger King centers on its main subject, , his nemesis Carole Baskin has received almost as much attention.In the , we learn that Joe has been accused (and spoiler alert: convicted) of hiring someone to kill Baskin, who runs Big Cat Rescue, an organization that actively works to shut down cat parks like Joe's.

Arts festivals can be truly life-changing. They can also be ripe for mockery, which is what happened to comedian Eugene Mirman and his friends back in 2008.

Meet the elephants that are on parade for an entire year.

Warning: This post contains mild spoilers for Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.If you spent any amount of time online over the weekend, you probably know at least a little something about , the latest (incredibly bonkers) documentary from . The show centers on Joe Exotic, a man who owns a big cat "zoo" in Oklahoma where he employs a very interesting cast of characters, including his two husbands.

After the viral success of , one of the best documentaries on Netflix, the streaming platform has churned out dozens of documentaries and documentary series. From behind-the-scenes rock docs like Gaga Five Foot Two to true-crime deep dives like the amount of nonfiction content on is seismic.Netflix is also home to important non-original documentaries that stand the test of time, like Paris Is Burning.

We're a week or so into self-isolation and streaming services have begun to feel like video games. It seems that, at a certain point, you will complete them.

On May 22, 2013, paramedics arrived at the Palmdale home of Gabriel Fernandez. They found him naked on the floor with  a cracked skull, shattered ribs, severe burns and BB pellets buried in his body.

Corey Feldman is naming men he claims raped him and his friend Corey Haim, who died in 2010 after a long battle with drugs and alcohol, in his new doc, “The Rape of Two Coreys” — a movie about pedophilia in Hollywood. The doc will debut on his own website after it was turned down by Netflix and other streamers for legal reasons.

Palomar, the Italian TV and film production company behind “Inspector Montalbano” and “The Name of The Rose,” is launching a unit dedicated to documentaries to be headed by Andrea Romeo, founder and chief of Italy’s Biografilm Festival.