Peter Keough

The six-episode docu-series examines three high-scoring, sometimes comically botched inside jobs.

Documentaries screening now in Greater Boston and online.

In “McCartney 3, 2, 1,” a six-part Hulu series, the former Beatle talks with legendary record producer Rick Rubin.

“The Neutral Ground” and “The Phantom” are unsettling, and worthwhile, documentaries.

Spotlighting “Persepolis,” “Waltz with Bashir,” and “Tower.”

“Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation” is a synthesized dialogue between the two gay literary eminences.

Spotlighting “Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story” and “Mary J. Blige’s My Life.”

Spotlighting “The Jump” and “Playing with Sharks,” two of several festival films with nautical topics.

Spotlighting “Nasrin,” “A Fish Tale,” “Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer,” and “A Crime on the Bayou.”

Theo Anthony suggests in his complex, reflexive, epistemologically dizzying, enigmatically titled documentary “All Light, Everywhere,” the validity of images is determined by those who create and control them.

Spotlighting “Ahead of the Curve,” “On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Journey,” and “Changing the Game.”

If recent rock documentaries like Apple TV+’s eight-part “1971” have whet your appetite for more of the same, check out the Coda Collection.

Taking a look at “Final Account,” “Broken Harts,” and “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten.”

A look at the upcoming Global Cinema Film Festival Boston, plus films about punk rock in the nation’s capital, and how the survivors of the Parkland school shooting campaigned for stricter gun laws.

“1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” is a fast-moving, eight-part documentary on Apple TV+ that weaves an aural and visual tapestry of a time no less chaotic, convulsive, and uncertain than our own.

Spotlighting “In the Same Breath” and “The Return: Life After ISIS.”

James Buddy Day’s four-episode “Fall River” joins “This Is a Robbery” as another recent documentary series about an infamous local crime.

Unsurprisingly, many of the documentaries in the virtual 2021 IFFBoston reflect the traumas of 2020 — in particular the ugly surge in racism. Here are three that report on that phenomenon with painful clarity.

Spotlighting the documentaries “The Boy from Medellín,” “Far East Deep South,” and “Unmarked.”

One neuroscientist’s quest to do so is the subject of ‘In Silico.’