Category: Documentary
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Selena y Los Dinos: Celebrating Selena With Style
Selena y Los Dinos (2025) Isabel Castro Selena is one of the many musicians that I’ve fallen in love with since I began teaching my students about her, and I’m a little sad that I didn’t check out this documentary until after my 4th graders had finished their Selena unit already. Suffice it to say that Selena y Los Dinos (the doc, not to be confused with the band) only solidified my…
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Deaf President Now!: A Movement Worth Hearing
Deaf President Now! (2025) Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim Deaf President Now! was another Sundance film that I had wished Morgan and I picked over Bubble & Squeak, and now that I’ve seen both films, I can say I was totally right in wishing we had picked it. I’m not sure why we didn’t—sign language and the Deaf community have always been a big interest of mine (I’ve taken numerous sign language…
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Not Just a Goof: Not Just a Cult Classic Bootlicking
Not Just a Goof (2024) Eric Kimelton and Christopher Ninness Rarely do I chomp at the bit for a documentary—I have no idea how someone prefers a documentary over a fictional narrative—but I was itching to get home from school from my first class to watch Not Just a Goof. I had seen plenty of good things about it and I’m still on my A Goofy Movie high from yesterday, so thank God…
