Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home.
Now streaming at Hulu is Neil Berkeley's Gilbert, a poignant portrait of one of comedy's most iconic figures, Gilbert Gottfried.
Premiering tonight, Monday, January 29 on HBO is Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio's May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, which follows the popular Americana band as they record their album True Sadness.
Premiering tonight on Independent Lens is Nanfu Wang's I Am Another You, in which the filmmaker explores the meaning of persona freedom through the eyes of a young American drifter.
Premiering Friday, February 2 on Showtime is Matthew Heineman's The Trade, a five-episode docu-series that spotlights the opioid epidemic through the eyes of those most affected: the growers, addicts, cartel bosses and law enforcement hopelessly caught in its web.
Expiring February 2 on Filmstruck is Terry Zwigoff's Louie Bluie, a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.