HBO Documentary Films

The Alabama Solution

By Andy Howell | February 2026

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! The Alabama Solution is one of the most important and astounding documentaries ever made. Co-directors Andrew…

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! The Alabama Solution is one of the most important and astounding documentaries ever made. ...

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NOW ON HBO! Do you remember your adolescent years? For the majority of us, the teenage years are a time you want to forget. This is particularly true for...

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HOT DOCS FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Writer/director Marilyn Agrelo's HBO Documentaries film Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is a two-hour...

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NOW ON HBO! Having grown up in the Bible Belt, I have always had a fascination with the more compelling subsets of Christianity that exist there in large...

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AFI FEST 2020 REVIEW! The documentary team of Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering has been producing well-crafted, award-winning, and groundbreaking investigative...

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NEW TO HBO! Welcome To Chechnya is easily one of the most searing and vital documentaries of the year. Featuring covert 4k footage from people on the...

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AFI DOCS FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW. I didn't know much about Roy Cohn going into HBO Documentary's Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn and to be...

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Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, aka Natalie Wood, is a Hollywood legend. The child actor turned movie star was the leading lady of such timeless classics...

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In 1990, women in Saudi Arabia were banned from driving cars, amongst other freedoms. Women who were caught driving would be arrested and imprisoned, and...

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As an institution, law enforcement’s main goal is to serve and protect. Unfortunately, the past decade has revealed extreme abuses within this system....

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