Twelve stories from 2012 that inspired, thrilled and surprised us. A recap of the year in documentary news.

Invisible Children's sequel to its viral video has less of the mania of its first narrator, and a more tempered message about Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army.

What documentarians can learn from the viral video that been seen 100 million times online in the last 10 days.

Paco de Onís, the producer of The Reckoning and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator raises questions about the inability to capture or stop Joseph Kony, the subject of the "viral" online video KONY 2012.

Documentary Site's Heather McIntosh deconstructs the advocacy video by Invisible Children that's been flooding your Facebook and Twitter feeds.