Best of Everything Nonfiction 2022

Here are the best nonfiction books, films, and documentaries reviewed in 2022.

Books

The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family

Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant

The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

Secrets of a Marine’s Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

Thunderstruck

At Any Cost: A Father’s Betrayal, a Wife’s Murder, and a Ten-Year war for Justice

Astoria

Films

Thirteen Lives

She Said

Documentaries

Into the Deep

Good Night Oppy

The Descendants

Documentary Series

The Murders at Starved Rock

Bad Vegan

The Tinder Swindler

Two Shallow Graves

Keep Sweet

I Just Killed My Dad

Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist

Untold: The Rise and Fall of And1

Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul

Untold: The Race of The Century

Aftershock

Eat The Rich: The GameStop Saga

The Vow

Spector

FIFA Uncovered

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet

Don’t Pick Up the Phone

Docudrama

Dahmer

VR (This is the first year for the best virtual reality games.)

Half-Life Alyx

Red Matter

Wanderer

The Room

Podcasts

Ultra