Hot Docs

A 1984 study planted the seed that would lead the media to falsely demonize Gaëtan Dugas as Patient Zero of an epidemic that would kill more than 700,000 people in North America

Opinion: In Oregon, among Halloween decorations, Julie Keith found a cry for help from a Chinese labour camp. Years later, it’s changed how she shops and parents

Maybe he won’t save the world. But with a new doc and Netflix show, the Science Guy is, at the very least, saving his career

Norwegian filmmaker Egil Håskjold Larsen on ’69 Minutes Of 86 Days’, a refugee documentary focussed on humanity, not horror

Watch a replay of John Geddes’s on-stage interview with former Supreme Court justice Ian Binnie on the legacy of Canada’s Charter

Join Maclean’s for a Hot Docs Q&A with Ian Binnie to explore our Charter in a unique event, live in Toronto or on macleans.ca on Apr. 29

It’s hard to watch. But Attiya Khan’s film—documenting her efforts to find common ground with her abusive ex-partner—is important

As an Indigenous filmmaker, I witnessed—and felt keenly, myself—the unique, hard-to-explain heartbreak caused by the ’60s Scoop

An obsessive new documentary dives deep into Psycho’s iconic shower scene, which changed film and culture forever

A pair of tender new documentaries highlight how people with autism are so much more than society’s misconceptions, ascending into wizardry or falling into tragedy

A new documentary, Migrant Dreams, explores the questions behind temporary foreign workers

Katie Couric’s ‘Under the Gun’ looks at what has changed in the gun-regulation since the Sandy Hook school shooting. A lot, it turns out, but for the worse.