The Best Documentaries of 2024, So Far “Spermworld,” “Onlookers” and “32 Sounds” are worth watching for the different ways they allow us to see the world.

Rolling Stone's picks for the best documentaries of 2024. Photo Illustration by Matthew Cooley. Photographs used in Illustration: Disney; Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images.

Reality doesn’t bite. Well, okay, at times it does. A number of our choices for the best documentaries of the year capture turbulent realities, ominous politics, and, on occasion, stark tragedy ...