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Screen Time: Week of September 18

By Akiva Gottlieb


Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home.

Now streaming on Netflix is Jenner Furst's Time: The Kalief Browder Story, a series tracing the tragic case of a Bronx teen who spent three horrific years in jail, despite never being convicted of a crime.

Premiering September 22 on Filmstruck is Errol Morris's Tabloid, which acquaints viewers with the eccentric woman at the center of the Mormon-sex-in-chains case, a story that lit up British papers in the seventies. The New York Times called it "astonishing."

New to Amazon Prime is Jon Nguyen's David Lynch: The Art Life, which shines a light into the dark corners of the filmmaker's unique world, giving audiences a better understanding of the man and the artist. RogerEbert.com calls it "a compelling slice of cinephile inquiry."