These documentary films were selected by the Moviepiq editorial team for watching with your parents. Popularity and critic scores don't factor in here. Emotional fit does.
The best documentary movies with your parents from the 2020s that will make you think for days. Includes Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Free Solo, 13th and more ...
The films that work best with parents are ones that hold up across different relationships with cinema. Neither too slow nor too demanding. Just genuinely good.
The early 2020s are already proving themselves. The best films from this decade will hold up. These are among them.
A great documentary finds the universal in the specific. One person's story becomes everyone's story.
An intimate look at America's favourite neighbor and the life, lessons, and legacy of Fred Rogers.
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan.
An in-depth look at the US prison system and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock musician Rodriguez.
What makes a documentary essential viewing is specificity. These films don't deal in generalities - they follow real people making impossible choices in real moments.
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, and illegal, high-wire routine performed between the World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974.
When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his project into a geopolitical thriller.
A documentary about the 1965-66 Indonesian mass killings, in which former paramilitary leaders re-enact their crimes.
The films that stay with you aren't always the ones that answer every question. Sometimes it's the ones that leave you with better questions.
The best documentaries don't resolve neatly. They give you something to carry. These do that.
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