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![Paradise [2022] ‘IDFA’ Review – A Gorgeously Shot Documentary on Climate Change Induced Wildfires in Siberia](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Paradise-2022-768x432.jpg)
Paradise (2022) is Russian documentary filmmaker Alexander Abaturov’s third feature-length documentary. I saw his Berlinale entry The Son (2018), an…
Netflix has been churning out compelling true-crime documentaries and limited series from Girl in the Picture to Monster: The Jeffrey…
![Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues [2022] Documentary Explained](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Louis_Armstrong_Photo_0105-768x432.jpg)
We were in a pandemic when I first heard ‘What a Wonderful World’ for the first time. Amidst all the…
Based on the bestselling biography by Jeanne Theoharis, this essential documentary now streaming on Peacock is based upon the ‘mother…
Flight/Risk (2022) Documentary Explained: When Edward Pierson, a former Boeing employee, raised concerns about the safety conditions at the Boeing…
![The Territory [2022] Review: The Spirit to Fight back shines the brightest in this endearing Amazonian documentary](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/The-Territory-2022-Movie-Review-768x432.jpg)
‘The Territory’ is a hard-hitting Nat Geo documentary on the Uru-eu-wau-wau community in Brazil. These indigenous people have been living…
![Fledglings [2022]: ‘Locarno’ Review – A Profoundly Touching Documentary on the Visually-Impaired Kids](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Fledglings-2022-768x432.jpg)
It’s a major challenge to deal with the subject of visual impairment in a movie or a documentary. Because cinema…
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 (2022) Documentary Explained: It is important to begin by saying that growing up when I did, in…
Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s infuriating and impassioned documentary Aftershock (2022) explores the abysmal maternal mortality rate among Black…