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Whether it’s diving into Nirvana or Scientology, exposing criminals in real- time or probing the darkest corners of Americana, we’ve spent more time talking about documentaries in the last six months than in entire years before then. Part of it could be that HBO has been absolutely killing it with its selections, or that with a never- ending reel of superhero franchises, people are looking for something more grounded in reality. Or maybe it’s that, in the age of 2. Whatever it is, we like the trend.

And to show our support, Newsweek staffers have picked some of their favorite documentaries from the first half of 2. TV, in theaters and along the festival circuit this year. Let’s hope the next six months follow suit. Meru. Forget Everest. The near- impossible Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru, nestled in the Indian Himalayas, is the ultimate ascension for climbers itching to be as close to the heavens as mortals can get. The eponymously named documentary Meru tracks three climbers—Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk—as they attempt to scale the top of the peak in 2. Directed by Chin, Meru is more than a gripping tale of human resistance, survival and friendship with killer cinematography.

It’s a thoughtful meditation on life, death and everything in between, which is likely part of the reason it snagged the Sundance Documentaries Audience Award this year. As for this journalist—who bears a heart of stone and is admittedly incapable of scaling a single rock without wanting throwing in the towel—I cried in the Park City theater, then immediately went out, took one look at the Wasatch Mountain Range in front of me, and felt grounded. Trust us: Meru is absolutely worth the climb. Paula Mejia. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now. Montage of Heck. Back in January, the Twitter hashtag #Explain. The. 90s. In. 4Words went viral, prompting responses from “Everybody Backstreet’s Back Alright” to “Who Loves Orange Soda?,” a reference to the lovable Good.

Burger franchise. But the four words that encapsulate the zeitgeist of the 1. Smells Like Teen Spirit.” This is because 2. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana nostalgia continues to be at a fever pitch, with the band’s logo becoming ubiquitous on screen- printed Hot Topic tees and on tattooed teens (and adults) alike. While the thoughtful, tragic life of Cobain continues to be dissected, Brett Morgen’s documentary, Montage of Heck, is the definitive and harrowing view of the man in his own words. Through personal recordings, dazzling animations and deep archival work, Morgen’s masterful film resuscitates the icon while mercifully putting some of the most persistent myths about him six feet under.

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Communism. From nuanced pre- code films to superhero flicks, it’s possible to track down practically any film in existence thanks to the Internet. So it’s difficult to imagine never having been exposed to movies, let alone those other than those painstakingly checked for any discrepancies by the government. Under communist dictator Nicolae Ceau. Chuck Norris vs. Communism is a nail- biting documentary about resistance and revolution behind the Iron Curtain, and how Nistor became an underground hero. And while it’s a history lesson at its core, Chuck Norris vs. Communism is a love letter to film.

Through dozens of interviews with impassioned Romanians who worship Nistor, it analyzes what it is about the pictures that keeps us returning to the theater (or keeps us on the couch, if Netflix is your poison). P. M. Iris. For one of his final films before his death in March, Albert Maysles returned to the subject that brought him notoriety decades ago—eccentric women who knew Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In 1. 97. 5’s. Grey Gardens, he documented the former first lady’s cousins; in Iris, which hit theaters in May, it was her decorator, Iris Apfel, an interior designer who became a fashion icon. As in Grey Gardens, Maysles keeps mostly quiet as he follows Apfel, 9. Park Avenue and Palm Beach homes, letting her tell her own story, which is full of anecdotes and advice.

Maysles interviews fashion industry insiders about her influence and inserts archival footage and photos to complete the picture. A few cutaways to Maysles with his camera, or the sound of his voice from off- screen, serve as an added bonus, a coming together of two cultural legends. Max Kutner. Related: More Real Than Reality TV: How Albert Maysles Taught America to Feel(T)Error. Sometimes a filmmaker’s longtime neighbor turns out to be a freelance undercover FBI agent who is going on his last mission (namely, to befriend a suspicious Muslim guy in Pittsburgh who sometimes writes on Facebook that he doesn’t like the U. S. The beginning of(T)Error is promising enough – we finally get to watch how FBI agents operate - - but it doesn’t prepare you for what comes next. An investigative piece that unravels in real time, the plot takes twists even the directors don’t seem to expect: heroes become villains and vice versa, the main character goes from exciting to pathetic to despicable, and a story about patriotism and loyalty turns to be about betrayal and deception. Instead of showing how the counterterrorism program works in this country, it brilliantly and revealingly shows how it doesn’t.

Aleksandr Gorbachev. Finders Keepers. Shannon Whisnant, a colorful North Carolinian with lifelong aspirations to become a celebrity, finds a severed human foot inside a grill he bought off an auction and sees it as an opportunity to finally make his dreams come true.

John Wood, another colorful North Carolinian, a troubled son of a successful local entrepreneur and the foot’s owner, has a different opinion on the matter. Stories like this are usually adored by local TV stations (and indeed they were all over it), but Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel, who were following it with a camera for many years, managed to turn Finders Keepers into something much bigger: an equally hilarious and heartbreaking study of human nature and typical Southern characters, which in its depth and narrative brilliance feels simultaneously Freudian, Franzenian and Coenesque. One particular takeaway: Apparently the road to happiness and inner peace can actually go through the TV show Judge Mathis.

A. G. Something Better to Come. During the 1. 5 years of Vladimir Putin’s reign in Russia, the life of practically every citizen has changed considerably. However, that doesn’t go for Julia’s family, who have spent these years living at the largest junkyard in Europe on the outskirts of Moscow. Created by Polish director Hanna Polak, who studied in Moscow, Something Better to Come follows Julia’s life from the age of 1. Russian low- life: lots of counterfeit vodka, violence, early pregnancy, casual jobs for the Russian mafia, hopelessness—and yes, these people literally live in a dump. Polak doesn’t try to make things look better, and the picture is so vivid that the film almost has a stench, but she also avoids the temptation to make Something Better to Come just an outcry against poverty and social recklessness.

It’s also a great coming- of- age story—Boyhood from a trash can, if you will. And as unlikely as it might seem, something better eventually does come, rewarding the main character as much as the director and a viewer. A. G. How to Change the World. In 1. 97. 1, a group of hippies from Vancouver decided to hire a boat and sail to Amchitka Island in Alaska to protest a nuclear weapon test that the U. S. They called the boat Greenpeace. Several months later, they discovered that they were now the leaders of the most popular environmental organization in the world. Some people saw it as an opportunity, others were terrified.