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Author: BY BEANDREA JULY - Publish Date: December 3, 2021 at 12:52AM This documentary from Debbie Lum goes inside a top-performing San Francisco public high school to see how students are preparing for the future.

Author: BY A.O. SCOTT - Publish Date: December 3, 2021 at 12:09AM A Danish documentary uses animation to tell the poignant, complicated story of an Afghan refugee.

Author: BY ROBERT ITO - Publish Date: November 12, 2021 at 12:42AM For decades, films about transgender people tended to be sensationalistic. A newer crop is more celebratory — and opening doors for its young subjects.

Author: BY JESSICA KIANG - Publish Date: October 8, 2021 at 12:00AM Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s documentary recounts the 2018 Thailand cave rescue.

Author: BY LISA KENNEDY - Publish Date: October 1, 2021 at 11:56PM A Netflix documentary directed by Erin Lee Carr offers a timely if vexing primer on the pop star’s legal battle, which may finally be coming to an end.

Author: BY JAY CASPIAN KANG - Publish Date: September 28, 2021 at 02:12AM He’s our favorite combatant-saint.

Author: BY FLORENCE FABRICANT - Publish Date: September 21, 2021 at 02:32AM The FoodxFilm Festival, supported by the United Nations Food Systems Summit, puts the focus on documentary film.

Author: BY MANOHLA DARGIS - Publish Date: September 18, 2021 at 02:17AM With theaters at 50 percent capacity, our critic found herself somewhat isolated as she took in highlights like “The Tsugua Diaries” and “Hold Your Fire.”

Author: BY MIKE HALE - Publish Date: September 17, 2021 at 01:20AM An absorbing account of the Iran-contra scandal avoids lecturing, but the lessons are unavoidable.

Author: BY FLORENCE FABRICANT - Publish Date: August 10, 2021 at 02:31AM A new documentary on Champagne explores its roots in France, but also how sparkling wines have flourished across the English Channel thanks to global warming.

Author: BY MANOHLA DARGIS - Publish Date: August 5, 2021 at 11:34PM In her new documentary, Lucy Walker looks at California’s apocalyptic fires and finds more than the usual smoke and politics.

Author: BY DEVIKA GIRISH - Publish Date: July 30, 2021 at 12:19AM This intrepid, immersive documentary follows the men and women who rescue Yazidi girls kidnapped and held by Islamic State fighters in a Syrian refugee camp.

Author: BY ISABELIA HERRERA - Publish Date: July 23, 2021 at 12:03AM This documentary is a portrait of downtown New York in the late 1980s and early ’90s that revels in nostalgia.

Author: BY ISABELIA HERRERA - Publish Date: July 19, 2021 at 11:03PM The prismatic “Landfall” and “Stateless” upend typical narratives about the triumph of the human spirit and show us the complexities at play.

Author: BY DEVIKA GIRISH - Publish Date: July 16, 2021 at 12:21AM Jörg Adolph uses the sensorial capacities of cinema to thrillingly visualize a German forester’s contention that trees are social, sentient beings.

Author: BY BEN KENIGSBERG - Publish Date: July 7, 2021 at 11:38PM Judd Ehrlich’s documentary charts the increasing radicalization of the National Rifle Association’s rhetoric.

Author: BY JIM FARBER - Publish Date: June 29, 2021 at 01:23AM “Good luck figuring me out,” the 62-year-old artist said. A new documentary called “The War Is Never Over” does its best.

Author: BY KRISTEN YOONSOO KIM - Publish Date: June 24, 2021 at 11:59PM The director Oskar Pall Sveinsson follows Veiga Gretarsdottir on a 103-day kayaking journey around Iceland.

Author: BY SARAH BAHR - Publish Date: June 9, 2021 at 11:57PM The annual event, which has dropped “film” from its name, began after 9/11, as part of New York City’s comeback. Can it stage an encore this month?

Author: BY KYLE BUCHANAN - Publish Date: April 11, 2021 at 09:33AM The “Nomadland” filmmaker is the first woman of color to take the feature-film directing prize. She’s now the prohibitive front-runner for the Oscar.