How Documentaries Became the Hottest Genre of the Summer

Ah, Summer! the season of Superhero Blockbusters and exhilarating action movies, enterprises that demand little more of us than shutting down some of our brain power and sinking into cushy stadium seats. But the summer of 2018 has put a wrinkle in that pattern. We're in the midst of a mini documentary boom, during a season in which a surprising number of people have made the effort to go out to the movies--to see a nonfiction film.