What You Need to Know About This Year's Oscar-Nominated Documentaries

Already one of the most awarded films in the category, The Look of Silence was more than a decade in the making by Joshua Oppenheimer, who was also behind the 2014 Academy-nominated companion piece, The Act of Killing. The new documentary focuses on an Indonesian family's attempt to come to terms with the 1965 genocide, during which an estimated one million people were killed by a government that continues to maintain a monopoly on power to this day without facing any repercussions. Oppenheimer's film stands as a landmark for the generations of Indonesians, opening their eyes to the propaganda and triggering an international conversation for justice 50 years later.