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The Best Documentaries of 2019

…it was an incredibly strong year for documentaries, amid which Variety film critics Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman singled out these 10 as their favorites.

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10 Best Documentaries of 2019 - Carmine Street Guitars

Head down to Carmine and Bleeker Street in downtown New York, and you’ll see Rick Kelly and his associate, Cindy Hulej, crafting intricate, insanely detailed guitars made from locally recycled wood — if the materials happen to be from a Gotham landmark like McSorley’s, all the better.

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‘The All-Americans’: L.A.’s Legendary High School Football Rivalry Is Ready For Its Cinematic Close-Up

On the American sports scene, November is known for the NHL and NBA seasons kicking into full swing, the halfway point in the pro and college football seasons, and the start of Major League Baseball’s post-World Series Hot Stove season. Primarily, however, November is known for fierce, historic high school football rivalries that take place across the country throughout the month.

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Carmine Street Guitars, Reviewed by Jennie Kermode

To the untrained eye, Carmine Street Guitars might seem to be of little importance, but this is the workplace of Rick Kelly, one of the greatest guitar builders of all time, and before they faded into the anonymity of age some of those grey-haired men were worshipped as music legends.

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Human Trafficking Doc 'Ghost Fleet' Gets Summer Release Date

Documentary Ghost Fleet has gotten a release date via Abramorama.

The feature about the search for men marooned on remote Indonesian islands after years of forced labor on Thai fishing boats will hit theaters June 7, a release that coincides with World Oceans Day on June 8. 

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The Best and Worst Documentaries of the 2019 SXSW Film Festival

Ron Mann’s documentary eschews most of the standard devices; there’s no narration, no talking heads, no archival materials. He just spends a few days hanging out in the shop, watching Rick and his apprentice Cindy work, and eavesdropping as musicians and Village figures (including Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Wilco’s Nels Cline, and the Roots’ Kirk Douglas) pop in to shoot the breeze and play music.

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