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10 Best Movies Like How Not to Die Documentary

If you loved How Not to Die Documentary, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Not to Die Documentary for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs....

#2
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News

After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Not to Die Documentary for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An investigation into the ongoing threat caused by the phenomenon of “fake news” in the U.S., focusing on the real-life consequences that disinformation, conspiracy theories and fa...

#3
Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream

Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream

2013★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Not to Die Documentary for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Life Is But a Dream is a HBO documentary about the life of US singer Beyoncé Knowles during the years 2011 and 2012 and on the recording of her fifth album. The film was directed b...

#4
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Not to Die Documentary for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveilla...

#5
What the Health

What the Health

2017★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Not to Die Documentary for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people ...

#6
Naqoyqatsi

Naqoyqatsi

2002★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How Not to Die Documentary for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence....

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