Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming on Netflix is Jon Alpert's Cuba and the Cameraman, which chronicles the fortunes of three Cuban families over the course of four tumultuous decades in the nation's history. Premiering tonight, Monday, November 27 on HBO is Brent and Craig Renaud's Meth Storm, which tells the story of rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers whose addiction to ICE and lack of job opportunities have landed them in an endless cycle of poverty and incarceration

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming on Netflix is Chris Smith's Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, which chronicles Jim Carrey's method performance as Andy Kaufman in the film Man on the Moon. Newly streaming at Filmstruck is the Oscar-nominated 1986 doc H ellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima. After the atomic blast in Hiroshima, Iri and Toshi Maruki began working on a series of paintings depicting the event that haunted them. The fifteen monumental works, known as the Hiroshima Murals, portray hope in

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. This week we highlight documentaries about American veterans. Premiering tonight, Monday, November 13 on POV is Michael Collns and Marty Syjuco's A lmost Sunrise. In an attempt to put haunting combat experiences behind them, two friends embark on an epic 2,700-mile trek on foot across America, seeking redemption and healing as a way to close the moral chasm opened by war. Premiering tonight, Monday, November 13 on HBO is Deborah Scranton's War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, November 6 on Independent Lens is John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane, which aims to be the definitive look at the boundary-shattering jazz saxophonist whose influence continues to this day. Premiering on Hulu November 11 is James Moll's Obey Giant, which goes deep into the underground world of street art, profiling the rise of artist Shepard Fairey from his roots in punk rock and skateboarding, to presidential politics—through his iconic Obama "HOPE"

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Coming to DVD and VOD tomorrow, October 31 is Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time, a meditation on cinema's past that pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Variety writes, "The true magic that Dawson City captures is, simply, the mystery of film itself: a medium that turned people into shadows that burned brighter than life." Newly streaming at Netflix is Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. This week, we spotlight a few terrifying real-world stories. Streaming at Hulu is Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio's Cropsey, which investigates an urban legend surrounding the disappearance of five children on Staten Island. Variety wrote that it "has all the trappings of a true-crime TV special, but with an undercurrent of cultural exposition that is intelligent, profound and unsettling." Streaming on Netflix (and for 99 cents on iTunes) is Rodney Ascher's The Nightmare

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Netflix is Lucy Cohen's Kingdom of Us, about the effects of a father's suicide on a family of 8 in the West Midlands. Screen International called the film "impressive, deftly edited" and "documentary at its best." Newly streaming at Amazon Prime is Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts, which follows the journey of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently" - a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Currently streaming at MUBI is Tadhg O'Sullivan's The Great Wall, a film that audaciously looks the migration crisis in the eye by considering the resonance of Franz Kafka's universe in today's Europe. The Irish Times called it "extraordinary...a beautiful, puzzling film." Premiering on Starz tonight, October 9, is Natalie Avital's The Three Hikers, telling the story of three Americans who went hiking in Northern Iraqi Kurdistan in July 2009, and were captured and held as

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. R.I.P. Tom Petty. Streaming at Netflix is Peter Bogdanovich's four-hour Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream, which tells the story of the legendary rock band and its magnetic frontman. Premiering on POV tonight, Monday, October 2 is Lara Stolman's Swim Team, which chronicles the extraordinary rise of three diverse young athletes, capturing a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels like winning. Premiering Saturday, October 7 on HBO is

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. New to Netflix is Gaga: Five Foot Two, which goes beyond the glitter and the glam to learn more about the pop star Lady Gaga. Entertainment Weekly says the film "has a noirish glamour...Conversely, there are moments of raw and casual power." Now available for rental at Vimeo is (IDA's own) Carrie Lozano and Charlotte Lagarde's The Ballad of Fred Hersch, an intimate portrait of one of today's foremost jazz pianists and composers and his extraordinary work. Unseen Films says it