Documentary Now!

Ended Wednesday / 7:00pm IFC 28 min.
Documentary Now! is a comedy series that pays loving homage to the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode adopts a different style of nonfiction filmmaking to honor the most important stories that didn't actually happen.

Season 4

6 Episodes

Celebrated French filmmaker Ida Leos searches for why she no longer experiences "frisson" - the goosebumps that have always been her guide.
Nov 16 2022
A filmmaker forms a deep, emotional, and financially taxing relationship with a monkey.
Nov 09 2022
A chronicle of the iconic 1974 Craig Maes (Field Rock) showdown dubbed 'The Melon vs. The Felon.'
Nov 02 2022
A fly-on-the-wall portrait of a hair salon in the small coastal town of Bagglyport as they prepare their annual stylebook.
Oct 26 2022
In the early 1980s, a visionary German filmmaker tries to will his magnum opus into existence while working in the remote, punishing conditions of the Russian Ular mountains. Part II.
Oct 19 2022
In the early 1980s, a visionary German filmmaker tries to will his magnum opus into existence while working in the remote, punishing conditions of the Russian Ular mountains. Part I.
Oct 19 2022

Season 3

7 Episodes

A profile of life at the top of the Professional Bowling League during the 2003 tournament season, shining a spotlight on the highs and lows of its three most beloved competitors.
Mar 27 2019
An impressionistic look at the turbulent life of American jazz guitarist Rex Logan, who became a cultural icon in Eastern Europe when his music provided the soundtrack for the 1991 revolution in the Republic of S�rdasovinia.
Mar 20 2019
A superfan sets out to make a documentary about the comic strip that changed his life and personally deliver the film to its reclusive creator.
Mar 13 2019
An internationally-acclaimed performance artist prepares for a major career retrospective while reconciling her relationship with her former lover and performance partner, who she hasn't seen in two decades.
Mar 06 2019
A fly-on-the-wall look at the marathon cast album recording of the ill-fated 1970 Broadway musical comedy centered around a cast of characters who work, live, or want to live in the same co-op.
Feb 27 2019
Feb 20 2019
Self-appointed spiritual guru Father Ra-Shawbard starts a commune in rural Oregon with the help of overly devoted assistant Ra-Sharir; exasperated FBI agent Bill Doss dedicates himself to exposing the man behind the mantras.
Feb 20 2019

Season 2

7 Episodes

Oct 26 2016
An in-depth look at Hollywood legend Jerry Wallach and his 40-year quest to win an Oscar.
Oct 26 2016
A new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s play their final concert.
Oct 12 2016
A tribute to the 1968 Maysles documentary "Salesman" that followed a wearied quartet of door-to-door Bible salesmen, "Globesmen" shares a similar story about four hard-working business men trying their best to sell globes to a community of people who find them too expensive and ultimately prefer atlases. Feeling pressure from their regional manager, and dealing with the constant rejection from customers, the salesmen do anything they can to reinvent the globe as a need-to-have household item.
Oct 05 2016
Monologist Parker Gail and director Harrison Renzi team up to present Gail's theater piece, "Location Is Everything".
Sep 28 2016
Young Colombian chefs learn the tricks of the restaurant trade from their strict father Juan, whose celebrated restaurant only serves one dish: chicken and rice.
Sep 21 2016
A different and interesting look at the 1992 Ohio Gubernatorial campaign.
Sep 14 2016

Season 1

7 Episodes

Part two of the documentary chronicling the rise and fall of a seminal soft-rock band called the Blue Jean Committee.
Sep 24 2015
Part one of the documentary chronicling the rise and fall of a seminal soft-rock band called the Blue Jean Committee.
Sep 24 2015
A documentary crew travels to Arborg, Iceland for the annual festival honoring American gangster Al Capone.
Sep 17 2015
An investigation into the wrongful conviction of a man sentenced to death of the 1986 murder of John Patrick Winslow. Inspired by the documentary The Thin Blue Line.
Sep 10 2015
The hipster media empire DRONEZ sends two of its notoriously fearless journalists to track down Mexico's most wanted drug lord. Inspired by VICE News documentaries.
Sep 03 2015
An investigation into the seminal documentary "Kunuk The Hunter" that attempts to separate what is real from what is fabrication. Inspired by the documentary Nanook of the North.
Aug 27 2015
An in depth look at the daily lives of two aging socialites and their crumbling estate. Inspired by the documentary Grey Gardens.
Aug 20 2015