Obit

An inside look at life on the New York Times obituaries desk.

Duration: 93 min
Release date: 2017-01-11
IMDB

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.

Documentary

Obit

Videos

Obit

Watch Providers

Kino Film Collection

Recomendation Films

  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
  • The Newburgh Sting
  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
  • Oppenheimer
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
  • Titanic
  • Boss Level
  • Soul
  • Julieta
  • Extraction
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Enola Holmes
  • Gifted
  • Joker
  • पीके
  • Eden Lake
  • My Best Friend's Wedding
  • Сталкер
  • The Collector

Similar Films

  • Cazuza: Boas Novas
  • Trudell
  • Pixies: Gouge
  • Here is the News
  • Estherin Kehä
  • Roundup
  • The Complete History of America's Railroads
  • In Free Fall
  • The Satanic Verses Affair
  • Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime
  • Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
  • maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
  • Underwater Dreams
  • The Feminist Library
  • Rate It X
  • Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back

NextFilm 2026