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Technology has made non-fiction film easier to make, more available and more popular than ever before. Here, WNYC selects the best documentaries as they come to screens of any size.

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.1 • 15 Ratings

Technology has made non-fiction film easier to make, more available and more popular than ever before. Here, WNYC selects the best documentaries as they come to screens of any size.

    'The Luckiest Guy in the World' profiles Bill Walton

    'The Luckiest Guy in the World' profiles Bill Walton

    The ESPN series, 'The Luckiest Guy in the World,' profiles basketball great Bill Walton who passed away last month.

    • 1 min
    Collecting records and reviving dreams in 'Flipside'

    Collecting records and reviving dreams in 'Flipside'

    Filmmaker Chris Wilcha tells a personal story of reckoning with youthful dreams in middle age as he tries to save an old record store in 'Flipside.'

    • 1 min
    'Queen of the Deuce' profiles the grandmother who ran porn theaters

    'Queen of the Deuce' profiles the grandmother who ran porn theaters

    'Queen of the Deuce' profiles Chelly Wilson, a Greek Jewish immigrant grandmother who ran multiple adult film theaters around 42nd Street.

    • 1 min
    'A Time to Stir' looks at Columbia University in 1968

    'A Time to Stir' looks at Columbia University in 1968

    'A Time to Stir' is a 10-part oral history film focusing on the Columbia University student strike of 1968.

    • 2 min
    Is 'The Contestant' the most bizarre documentary of the year?

    Is 'The Contestant' the most bizarre documentary of the year?

    'The Contestant' explores the early days of reality TV in Japan when a man named Nasubi spent over a year naked in isolation living off prizes from magazine sweepstakes while 30 million viewers tuned in to watch.

    • 1 min
    'Uncropped' profiles photographer James Hamilton

    'Uncropped' profiles photographer James Hamilton

    'Uncropped' profiles the the photographer James Hamilton who has an eclectic career spanning street scenes, celebrity portraits, war coverage and more.

    • 1 min

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