Streaming: top docs for lockdown

The Obama-produced Crip Camp offers a winning combination of the heartfelt and the hard-hitting.

Plus, more real-life tales from Cuba to Uzbekistan“Escapism” is an operative word when you’re hunkered down under quarantine and surveying your home viewing options, but how you interpret that is up to you.

Many will opt for fiction and fantasy, for the furthest possible reaches from the glum news of the moment.

Yet documentary films have their place in this comfort system too: they may not take you to another universe entirely, but at a time when a single global crisis unavoidably consumes all media attention and almost all personal conversation, the window they provide into other realities, past and present, can be a vital way to clear your head of current noise.Netflix is a reliable source of good ones, and they’ve landed one of the year’s best so far in Crip Camp,

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