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The Best Documentaries of 2024
The best documentaries of 2024 include tales of hope and daring, of fighting back, of art and inspiration and the heroism of ordinary people.
And the more we hear his music, in all its fabulous and voluptuous eclecticism (the swooning pop songs; the spaghetti Western scores that sounded like ghostly Mexican rock ‘n’ roll frontier acid trips; the political-drama soundtracks for films like “The Battle of Algiers” that were as charged-up as the revolutions they were about; the transcendent romanticism that infused his beloved later work), the more we have the same thought: Where did it come from? It traces how she started off as a model, then became a New York stockbroker, then moved with her publishing-magnate husband to Westport, Conn., where they bought a fixer-upper, Turkey Hill Farm, whose fixing up, by Martha (she hand-painted the entire house while listening to the Watergate hearings), became the prototype for her brand of obsessively tasteful “perfection.” The movie shows us that Stewart had a vision, which turned her into the first self-made woman billionaire in America. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Institute It’s likely that many non-Indigenous people knew nothing about the abuse and disappearances of Native American children that occurred over decades in residential Indian schools throughout North America — at least, until those outages inspired a wrenching subplot on the Taylor Sheridan TV series “1923.” But the truth behind that fact-based fiction is even more shocking.
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