
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.
Morgan Neville's other late-2010s gem — a quietly devastating portrait of Fred Rogers, the children's-TV host whose radical kindness now reads as countercultural. Critics universally adored it; the documentary became a phenomenon and a quiet rebuke to the era it arrived in.