HBO takes viewers to 1995, when a 21-year-old Alanis Morissette burst onto the music scene with the first single off her ground-breaking album, “Jagged Little Pill” with the new documentary Jagged, directed by Alison Klayman (“The Brink,” “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”).
Showtime Sports released the official trailer for Kevin Garnett: Anything is Possible, a new documentary chronicling the life and legacy of one of the NBA’s all-time greats, Kevin Garnett, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this year. The documentary premieres on Friday, November 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime
IFC Films will release the searing police reform documentary Hold Your Fire by Emmy-nominated director Stefan Forbes (Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story). Hold Your Fire puts a spotlight on the longest hostage siege in NYPD history and the people instrumental in an event that birthed modern hostage negotiation and that could provide hope for repairing America’s broken policing system.
Following its theatrical run, the documentary Simple as Water, from Academy Award winning filmmaker Megan Mylan (“Lost Boys of Sudan,” “Smile Pinki”), debuts Tuesday, November 16 (9:00-10:40 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO. The critically acclaimed film celebrated its world premiere on closing night of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
From award-winning directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney (Notes on Blindness) and narrated by Pearl Mackie (Doctor Who), the new documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin, described as a kaleidoscopic portrait of a man who became an immortal legend, whose life was as extraordinary as his art, begins its theatrical run at Cinema Village (New York) and Laemmle Monica (Los Angeles) on Friday, November 19. Following its theatrical run, the documentary will premiere on Showtime on Saturday, December 11, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Amazon Prime Video released the official trailer for A Man Named Scott, the new documentary on rapper and actor Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi. Directed by Robert Alexander and featuring Kanye West, Timothée Chalamet, Shia LaBeouf, Willow Smith, Jaden Smith, Lil Yachty, along with Pharrell Williams, the film premieres globally on November 5, 2021 on Prime.
YouTube Originals debuted the official trailer for the documentary, Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers, premiering for free globally on November 11 in full 4K resolution only on Tom Petty’s YouTube Channel.
IFC Films released the official trailer for Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, a biography of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker Robert Weide, who set out to document it. The documentary plays at DOC NYC from November 11 – 19, 2021 and opens in theaters and on VOD on November 19, 2021.
The official trailer dropped today for Mayor Pete, the new documentary film directed by Jesse Moss that follows Pete Buttigieg as he runs for President of the United States.
Oscilloscope Labs debuted the official trailer for the documentary, So Late So Soon, “An intimate portrait of the energetic and beautifully eccentric Chicago-based artists Jackie and Don Seiden, married for five decades.” Directed by Daniel Hymanson, the documentary was an official selection of multiple festivals including True/False Documentary Film Festival, DOC NYC, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Calgary Underground Film Festival. Oscilloscope Labs will release the documentary in theaters in November 2021.
The official trailer is here for Israeli filmmaker Maya Sarfaty’s haunting documentary Love It Was Not opening in movie theaters starting Friday, November 5 including at Quad Cinema in New York City, Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles, and Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino.
After earning critical praise following the premieres at Venice and Telluride Film Festivals, Sony Pictures Classics will release Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song. The film will receive a North American theatrical release in 2022.