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The year has already picked up significantly since Sundance, as eyes turn to this past weekend's True/False, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festivals. Taking the...

It's never too early to look into the distant future. Last week, our Nicholas Bell took a look past the 2018 calendar with Through the...

Yesterday we looked back at the exquisite documentaries that have graced us with their presence thus far in 2013, but now it is time...

Not entirely sure why much lauded docs films that stuck out this year in Janus Metz's Armadilllo, Lixin Fan's Last Train Home, Michelangelo Frammartino's le quattro volte and Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol failed to make the grade (I'm not entirely sure how this works with the cut-off dates), but there are plenty on the list of 15 that have earned the right to be deemed among the best docs of the year, almost shockingly they included Exit through the Gift Shop and thankfully didn't bother with Catfish. Not surprisingly, a major launch-pad for the documentary form with at least eight examples below (if my count is good) is the Sundance Film Festival. The preliminary round of voting will determine five noms (announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PT) and the only one I can honestly say is a shoe-in for a top 5 nom spot is Charles Ferguson's Inside Job.