Year-End Lists

Noel Murray: The 10 (or 11) Best Documentaries of 2021, as published by Polygon

• All Light, Everywhere
  Theo Anthony
• Attica
  Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry
• Flee
  Jonas Poher Rasmussen
• Operation Varsity Blues
  Chris Smith
• A Cop Movie
  Alonso Ruizpalacios
• Procession
  Robert Greene
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  Questlove
• The Truffle Hunters
  Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
• Val
  Leo Scott and Ting Poo
• The Velvet Underground
  Todd Haynes
• The Viewing Booth
  Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

An honorable mention to these music documentaries

• Tina
  Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin
• The Sparks Brothers
  Edgar Wright
• Under the Volcano
  Gracie Otto
• Listening to Kenny G
  Penny Lane
• The Beatles: Get Back
  Peter Jackson