Heres a fun fact for you:The Handmaids Taleisnt the only documentary on Hulu.
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Reality is always ready to take some weird twists and turns.
Hulu is here to help you keep up with it.
The documentary options on Hulu range from sports to true crime to sports and true crime to…chickens.
Here is our list of the best documentaries on Hulu.
Because sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Whose Streets?
Whose Streets?doesnt dwell on the event itself but rather the response.
School Life
Kids make for amazing documentary subjects.
Theyre unguarded, unpretentious and just generally dont mind being on film.
Life Itself
Film criticism can be a thankless job.
Theres not much social benefit in criticizing or praising someone elses work.
Roger Ebert, however, helped turn it into an honest-to-goodness art form.
This isnt so much a documentary as it is an in-depth biography of one mans life.
Unsurprising, since its named after Eberts own biography.
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. a.k.a.
He was dubbed the grim sleeper due to the 14 year break he took between some of the killings.
Watch it for some serious food porn.
And of course an unexpectedly emotional exploration of father-son relationships.
Crime + Punishment
Hulu quickly snatched up police corruption documentaryCrime + Punishmentafter it won the U.S.
Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Good thing it did as its now a worthwhile entrant into the streamers sparse collection of original docs.
Minding the Gap
Documentaries can tell many larger than life stories about larger than life figures.
Sometimes, however, the best ones find the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Minding the Gap, from director Bing Liu simply follows three Illinois skateboarding kids.
Thats an oversimplification of course.
RBG
The U.S. Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment.
That often means that those appointed often live a hell of a lifetime.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs life and career have included countless remarkable milestones.
Bader Ginsburg has seen legal precedents and cultural norms change rapidly over her life.
And on several occasions she has spearheaded those legal and cultural changes.
If nothing else,RBGreveals a pretty solid work out regiment for elderly Supreme Court justices.
Soufra
Soufrais a wildly uplifting documentary about the triumph of the human spirit in awful circumstances.
Soufradepicts the life of a refugee through the most universal language: food.
Food, Inc.
This list of documentaries features a collection of truly terrifying and grotesque content.
Just two or three entries above this one is an actual interview with a serial killer!
Still,Food, Inc.remains the only documentary on this list I absolutely dont have the stomach to watch.
Ok, you dont remember because it was the 1906.
But you remember learning about that book.
Food, Inc.is likeThe Jungleon steroids.
In that the chickens are all on hellish, beyond cruel steroids.
Fyre Fraud
The story behindFyre Fraudresembles the story of the ill-fated Fyre Festival itself.
Ok not at all but the doc didnt come without some controversy.
The team behind the Hulu doc accused the Netflix doc of being illegitimate because of Jerry Medias involvement.
Netflix fired back by pointing out that Fyre Fraud paid festival organizer Billy McFarland to interview him.
The film documents professional rock climber Alex Honnold as he attempts the first free solo (i.e.
Jane Jacobs was a street-level activist in New York City.
She resisted attempts from Mayor Robert Moses in the 1960s to build a Lower-Manhattan Expressway through Greenwich Village.
Blackfish
You may rememberBlackfishas the movie that changed SeaWorld forever.
Thats because the upsetting truth revealed byBlackfish.
Its a particularly excellent documentary now that we know the real world ending.
Such is the case with 2019s riveting documentary about beekeeping,Honeyland.
Honeylandfollows Hatidze Muratova, the last in a long line of Macedonian beekeepers.
Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in a small village without electricity running water.
The film follows the challenges of doing things the old way in an increasingly industrialized and crowded world.
