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WA031 - Five Documentaries, 2025-26

One year, many histories

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Michaelangelo Matos
Jul 23, 2026
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Every week, I watch a movie with my friend and upstairs neighbor, Nate Patrin, alternating selections; sometimes these include documentaries. The first two items, my choices both, came from that setting; the others I watched alone on devices, and I saw all of them between February and July. They’re in the order released to their streamers (that’s how I watched the PBS one), which in the middle three cases differs some (or a lot, in Liza’s case) with their first theatrical showings, but c’est la vie.

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