NYTimes Op-Docs

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    Documentary Lance Oppenheim

    The Paradise Next Door

    As America's largest retirement community continues to expand, cracks, both literal and metaphysical, are suddenly opening beneath the senior utopia.

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    Documentary Topaz Jones & Rubberband

    Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma

    Winner of a 2021 Sundance Jury Prize, Topaz Jones's visual album is an autobiographical journey into his formative influences. Told in vignettes, it is modeled off the Black ABC's—an invention from 1970, when Black educators in Chicago developed an alphabet flashcard set to provide Black-centered teaching materials to the vastly white educational landscape.

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    Documentary J.Ollie Lucks

    Wilbur Force

    Wilbur Force, the former king of NZ pro-wrestling, is provoked to reconnect with his glory days of battle in this energetic & entertaining Loading Docs film.

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    Documentary Ema Ryan Yamazaki

    Instruments of a Beating Heart

    First graders at a Tokyo public school are presented with a challenge for their final semester: to form an orchestra and perform at a school ceremony.

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    Oscars Short Films 2022: The Films Battling for an Academy Award

    From 309 to 45, the shortlists for the 2022 Academy Awards have been announced. We take a look at the lists, provide links for where to view them, and share our favorite film in the Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject & Live Action Short Film categories

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    Documentary Lance Oppenheim

    The Happiest Guy in the World

    What kind of person takes a cruise not for a week or a month — but for the rest of his life?

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    Documentary Charlotte Evans

    OK Chlöe

    New Zealand’s millennial MP, Chlöe Swarbrick, challenges the establishment during the most important year of her political career.

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    Documentary Joris Debeij

    The Bull Rider

    A meditative portrait of bull rider Gary Leffew and his reflections on life and the sport that made him the man he is today.

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