BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ (2019) Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Alice Guy Blaché was a pioneer of early cinema, credited as both the first woman movie director and first woman studio head. But many people haven’t heard of her. This documentary, directed by Pamela B. Green, is a step toward changing that. To shed light on Guy Blaché’s overlooked career, Green documents her own mission to track down artifacts from the filmmaker’s life and search for any descendants. “ The result,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “ is occasionally a little frantic — animated segments sometimes bring the past to life and sometimes get in the way — and often tremendously moving.”

ARCHIBALD’S NEXT BIG THING Stream on Netflix. In 2014, the “Veep” and “Arrested Development” actor Tony Hale co-wrote a children’s book about an awkward young chicken named Archibald struggling to come into his own. Hale voices Archibald in this animated adaptation, which also brings together the voices of other celebrities including Rosamund Pike, RuPaul and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.