Five Documentaries for Black History Month

There is a rich and entirely separate art to the creation of a truly enticing documentary film. There are so many operative modes of documentary filmmaking that to list them all as plainly “non-fiction” would be disingenuous. A film that aligns itself with the tenets of cinéma vérité is not the same as a Ken Burns film, just as Agnes Varda’s “The Gleaners and I” is not the same type of film as Demott and Kreines’ “Seventeen.”