Docs To Watch: Stories of Love, Music, and Cats

As the year comes to an end, this week's Docs To Watch features titles that explore the theme of living life to the fullest. And how that can be done in a music studio, on a movie screen, or deep in the jungle with a cat named Keanu. No images? [Click here]( ID=167008;size=700x180;setID=556349;uid={EMAIL}7188710;click=docs_to_watch_top ID=167008;size=600x111;setID=523775;uid={EMAIL}7188710;click=docs_to_watch_top [- - -] [TheWrap - SUMMER TV WATCH LIST] December 19 – 25 As the year comes to an end, this week’s Docs To Watch newsletter features several titles that explore the theme of living life to the fullest. And how that can be done in a music studio, on a movie screen, or deep in the jungle with a cat named Keanu. [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Wildcat”(in theaters December 21; Amazon Prime December 30) [wildcat-image] Photo: Amazon Prime Video British soldier Harry Turner returned from Afghanistan a broken man. But in this inspiring doc by directors Melissa Lesh and Trevor Frost, we see Harry slowly pieced his life together again in the Amazon rainforest, helping a rescue center take care of Keanu, an orphaned ocelot who, like Harry, needs some TLC. [[TRAILER](] [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Sidney” (Apple TV+, streaming now) [Sidney Poitier] Phoro: Apple TV+ When Sidney Poitier died this past January at the age of 94, his legacy as both a trailblazer and a magnificent movie actor was celebrated in all the obituaries, film clips, an memories. Produced by Oprah Winfrey, this film is full-length tribute to the man and his marvelous career. [[TRAILER](] ID=167008;size=300x250;setID=523778;uid={EMAIL}7188710;click=docs_to_watch_medium [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Nelly & Nadine” (in select theaters) [Nelly Nadine] Photo: Nils A. Blanck/Auto Images On Christmas Eve in 1944, opera singer Nelly Mousset-Vos and writer Nadine Hwang fell in love while living through the hell of a German concentration camp. They survived the war, spending the rest of their lives together, and this incredible love story is portrayed via photos, letters, and film reels found by Mousset-Vos’s granddaughter. [[REVIEW](] [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “If These Walls Could Sing” (Disney+, streaming now) [Abbey Road Studios If These Walls Could Sing] Photo: Getty Images The world’s most famous recording studio is given a loving tribute in this film directed by photographer Mary McCartney. Her father is Paul, he of the Beatles (who named their iconic 11th album after the studio) and Paul is interviewed for the doc, along with Elton John, Nile Rodgers, John Williams and others. [[REVIEW](] [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Mind Over Murder”(HBO Max, streaming now) [Mind Over Murder - HBO Max] Photo: HBO Max With an artful dedication to the human consequences within lurid true crime stories, filmmaker Nanfu Wang skillfully details the 1985 murder case of 68-year-old Helen Wilson in Nebraska, and the “Beatrice Six,” three men and three women who were wrongly convicted of the crime. [[TRAILER](] [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Fire of Love” (Disney+, streaming now) The work of a spirited French married couple, both volcanologists, is explored with dazzling energy and verve by director Sara Dosa. [[INTERVIEW](] “Descendant” (Netflix, streaming now) Winner of a prize at Sundance, this doc traces the legacy of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to the United States [[INTERVIEW](] “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues”(Apple TV+, streaming now) The legendary jazz man’s life and career gets an in-depth treatment by director Sacha Jenkins, who uses unearthed recordings of the man himself. [[INTERVIEW](] [- - -] [Update your profile]( | [View our privacy policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( Sent from: TheWrap | 1808 Stanford Street | Santa Monica, CA, 90404 | attn: Email Coordinator [TheWrap]( ID=167008;size=600x111;setID=523777;uid={EMAIL}7188710;click=docs_to_watch_top ID=167008;size=700x180;setID=556350;uid={EMAIL}7188710;click=docs_to_watch_bottom This email was sent to {EMAIL}. If you are no longer interested you can [unsubscribe instantly](.