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If you're someone who thinks that Netflix is the streaming service wearing the documentaries crown right about now, you need to remember who the OG is. HBO was churning out incredible true stories before Netflix was even a big-ass red box outside your grocery store. We're talking pre-Redbox, y'all. HBO has been doing the work for years. Seriously. As far back as 1996's Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, HBO has been freaking out its subscribers with true crime stories that are just as harrowing today.

The Edge of SeventeenHailee Steinfeld channels a new-age Molly Ringwald in this sharp spin on the classic teenaged dramedy. The film is as radically honest as it is quick-witted, following high school junior Nadine’s self-aware quest to endure the awkwardness of her salad days. Not to mention, it doesn’t hurt that her teacher mentor is played by Woody Harrelson. Netflix Amazon Dead Poets SocietyRobin Williams stars as John Keating, an English teacher at an elite all-boys boarding school, who is determined to encourage his students to break the mold of their regimented education through poetry.

Before passing away in 2016 at the age of 76, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami completed work on this, his final film, an experimental documentary that serves as a melancholy meditation on mortality and the moving image. As original as it is striking, 24 Frames features twenty-four scenes, each containing a still photograph taken by Kiarostami (save for the opening shot of Pieter Bruegel’s 1565 painting The Hunters in the Snow) that then slowly comes to animated life courtesy of sly digital effects that cause animals to run, clouds to roll by, and smoke to billow from chimneys.