The Atlantic Selects

A showcase of cinematic short documentary films, curated by The Atlantic.

Inside For-Profit Japanese Crying Sessions

He Served the Longest Sentence of Any Innocent U.S. Inmate

The Oldest Surviving Form of Theater

A ‘Tragic Hero’ in Small-Town America

The Last Chess Shop in New York City

‘We’re All Hallucinating All of the Time’

A Crisis of Conscience in Fake News

An Ingenious Autodidact in the Mountains of Tajikistan

The Chaos of the Universe, Contained in a Watch

The Most Extreme Railway in the World

The Clown Is No Fool

The Curtain Falls on an Ancient Vocation

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