These Are the Best Documentaries That You Can Watch Right Now

4 Little Girls 

This 1997 Spike Lee documentary follows one of history's most underrepresented but harrowing tragedies, the 1963 Alabama church bombing. In this bombing, four young Black girls were killed. The emotional picture earned a nomination for Best Documentary at the 1998 Academy Awards.

Democrats

Guy Lodge from Variety Magazine claimed that “even the slyest political satire couldn’t outdo this riveting docu study of Zimbabwe’s troubled coalition government." This Camilla Nielsson’s documentary covered the political situation in current Zimbabwe, where personal and political interests collided. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.