Essential Documentaries

Essential Documentaries

A selection of standout non-fiction films from the Metrograph library.

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Essential Documentaries
  • Agent of Happiness

    Directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó | 93 mins | 2024
    How do you measure joy? For Bhutan—a nation that conceptualized a “gross national happiness" in 1972 and has collected data on its citizens’ satisfaction for almost two decades—the answer might just be mathematical. But the truth is h...

  • Buffalo Juggalos

    Directed by Scott Cummings | 30 mins | 2014
    Smeared in gaudy face-paint and dedicated as much to the hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse as they are to generalized debauchery and destruction, the Juggalo remains one of fan culture’s most enduring—and most derided—outsider figures. In his experimental ...