Letterboxd’s editor in chief Gemma Gracewood and lists editor Jack Moulton discuss their favorite docs of 2020 so far. Letterboxd members call in with their own top-doc picks, and we’re joined by Eli Despres and Elyse Steinberg, two-thirds of the directing team behind The Fight, which follows ACLU lawyers as they argue for major social justice issues including trans rights in the military and abortion access. Elyse also reveals she once acted in a Todd Haynes film. (We’ve kept in interruptions by children for pandemic documentary realness!)
Films and lists mentioned:

Official Letterboxd Top 100 Documentaries
Welcome to Chechnya
For Sama
Boys State
Disclosure
Crip Cramp: A Disability Revolution
Mucho Mucho Amor
The Painter and the Thief
Coronation
The documentaries of Agnès Varda
He Dreams of Giants
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Father Soldier Son
Making a Murder (and Knives Out)
The Last Dance
Showbiz Kids
Miss Americana

The Fight directors:

The Fight
Weiner
Crumb
American Movie
The Oath
How to Survive a Plague
A Few Good Men
Poison
Heavenly Creatures
It Might Get Loud

Fantasia Fest:

You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Feels Good Man

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