State of the Race: Available Contenders for Documentary Feature

In case you want to keep your ear to the ground about the feature length documentaries that may make up the five nominees at the academy awards, I have compiled a list of movies that are on the academy “short list” and where you can find them right now to stream. Although all of them aren’t on here, I think there’s enough to sink your teeth into. Note: I listed only the cheapest option from JustWatch so your particular streaming service may be available also. I also erred on the side of popularity. In the cases where a movie was free on multiple platforms, both are listed.

There’s a movie on here that’s on Shudder. Weird.

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State of the Race: Best Documentary Feature

An early glimpse of the Best Documentary Feature category has presented itself in the form of the Producer’s Guild of America nominations. While the rest of the PGA nominations aren’t announced until January 5th, the documentary nominations are released in November. They are:

Chasing Coral (Netflix)
City of Ghosts (Amazon Prime)
Cries from Syria (HBO)
Earth: One Amazing Day (in theaters)
Jane (in theaters)
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (Netflix)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (HBO)

City of Ghosts – 2017 (image: imdb)

All these films are eligible, and on the “short” list (170 docs) for the Academy except The Newspaperman. Every other documentary should be happy for this bit of news. Ben Bradlee is being portrayed by Tom Hanks in The Post which is sure to clean up on nominations next year at the Oscars. If I’m picking a lock to be nominated out of this group it’s probably Jane. City of Ghosts and Cries from Syria seem like your usually Academy bait, but Jane just looks too good.

Happy watching! And be sure to check back in for more articles in our ongoing State of the Race series as awards season heats up.