Documentaries’ Golden Age

Documentary films were once treated as celluloid spinach – films that were good for you, but not considered “entertaining.” But documentary filmmakers have transformed the genre with great storytelling and cinematic techniques, and documentaries are more popular than ever before. David Pogue talks with filmmakers Dan Cogan and Joe Berlinger, film programmer Thom Powers, and professor Jacqueline Reich about how recent films like “Finding Neverland” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” show the documentary is coming of age.