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Screen Time: Week of December 9

By Tom White


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

Right on the heels of the IDA Documentary Awards, here's where you can catch most of the winners:

Best Feature: 

For Sama (Director/Producer: Waad al-Kateab; Director: Edward Watts)

Now Streaming on Frontline:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/for-sama/

Best Short:

Learning to Skate in a Warzone (if you’re a girl) (Director: Carol Dysinger; Producer: Elena Andreicheva)

Now streaming on AETV.com:

Pare Lorentz Award and Best Cinematography Award:

Honeyland (Director: Tamara Kotevska; Director/producer: Ljudomir Stefanov; Producer: Atanas Georgiev; Cinematographers: Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma)

Now streaming on YouTube, Amazon Prime, Google Play and Vudu 

Best Short Form Series:

The New York Times Op-Docs: A Moment in Mexico

ABCNews VideoSource Award:

Mike Wallace Is Here (Director/Producer: Avi Belkin; Producers: Rafael Marmoor, John Battsek, Peggy Dexler and Christopher Leggeet

Now streaming on Hulu

Best Episodic Series:

Abstract: The Art of Design (Executive Producers: Scott Dadich, Morgan Neville, Dave O’Connor, Justin Wilkes and Jon Kamen)

Now streaming on Netflix

Best Multi-Part Documentary:

Leaving Neverland (Director/Producer: Dan Reed; Executive Producers: Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller)

Now streaming on Hulu

Best Music Documentary:

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (Director/Producer: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter; Director: Ed Burke; Producers: Steve Pamon and Erinn Williams)

Now streaming on Netflix

Best Director:

Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert (American Factory)

Now streaming on Netflix