This year saw its share of incredible documentaries, but in 2013 the stand-outs are films that help flesh out the way we see the world.
Beekeepers in More Than Honey.
Below are fifteen docs we suggest seeing, from the grisly to uplifting. Click on the name of the film to read its review.
The Armstrong Lie is a brilliantly executed "myth-buster."
© 2013 - Sony Pictures Classics
The Act of Killing is a masterpiece of murder and the movies.
© 2013 - Drafthouse Films
Blackfish is a vital look at orcas in captivity.
Photo by Gabriela Cowperthwaite - © 2013 - Magnolia Pictures
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer proves punk lives.
Twenty Feet from Stardom, like all powerful movies, sparks contemplation of our own lives.
© 2013 - RADiUS-TWC
After Tiller visits three clinics performing late-term abortions.
© 2013 - Oscilloscope Pictures
The Unknown Known is Errol Morris's fitfully illuminating exit interview with Donald Rumsfeld.
The Square's activists return to Tahrir
Courtesy of Noujaim Films
Frederick Wiseman's At Berkeley highlights the need for great public universities.
Links between American Evangelicals and Uganda's violent homophobia are explored in God Loves Uganda.
© 2013 - Focus World
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks can't get a fix on its thorny subject matter.
© 2013 - Focus World
Linsanity keeps its cardboard hero two-dimensional.
An animated marvel,
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?will set your brain off like fireworks.
Caucus is an irresistible crash course in why Republicans lose national elections.
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