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Activists helped free a Korean immigrant, and this documentary explores the wrongful conviction and its ripple effect.

This cryptic Bolivian feature looks at metropolitan life through a defamiliarizing lens.

In this documentary, Will Vinton, the animation visionary who gave life to the California Raisins and the Noid, gets a tribute.

A documentary of the 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s legacy shows the enduring fascination of his work.

In this hybrid of documentary and dramatization, real-life Hong Kong students re-enact the struggles of activists from earlier generations.

A summer of soul, and plenty of soul-searching, in this month’s nonfiction film selections.

Is the rider in the 19th-century photographic experiments really unknown, as Jordan Peele’s film implies? It’s complicated.

This exceptionally grim police procedural recalls films like Bong Joon Ho’s “Memories of Murder” and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.”

In this intermittently powerful if somewhat stiff-jointed Holocaust drama, a Jewish girl poses as a gentile and works as a nanny for a Ukrainian farmer...

This documentary offers an immersion in the lives of residents who keep the building’s spirit as a home for artists alive through a protracted renovation.