Across movies and TV series, the best documentaries of 2025 are a disparate bunch bound by shared value and gleaming purpose.

Mariska Hargitay, Laura Poitras and other Oscar-contending nonfiction helmers discuss their process, subjects and ...

Prime Video's documentary I Am: Celine Dion, which chronicles the iconic pop singer's battle with Stiff Person Syndrome, has been accepted to compete in the Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking ...

In 2006, Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel premiered their film Darkon, a character-driven account of a live-action role-playing community, at South by Southwest. Mixing straightforward observation, ...

Angola, USA, an unnerving portrait of the notorious Louisiana prison. Made when Garbus was 24, it looks eerily prescient ...

Sebastian Nazario-Colon graduated from RIT’s film and animation – production option program on May 11, 2024. One year later, Nazario-Colon found himself in France preparing to attend Festival de ...

The Sundance Film Festival announces its 2026 short film selections featuring 54 titles from 22 countries, alongside a Park ...

Still from Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film (2017), directed by Sam Wainwright Douglas (photo by Michael Lundgren, courtesy of Postcommodity) Uman’s first solo museum exhibition debuts a ...

Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux entered the room with a martial bearing, his square jaw tilted upwards in the manner of a man who need not doubt his significance. He came to the Salon des ...

EARLIER: One by one the emails hit inboxes, on letterhead of the National Endowment for the Humanities: that grant we gave you to make your documentary? It’s cancelled. Last week, the Trump ...

Michael Rabiger taught documentary filmmaking at Columbia College Chicago for more than three decades and was the author of a widely used textbook on the subject, “Directing the Documentary.” “In ...

The International Documentary Association sounded off on the Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery mega-deal, slamming the business move as one that will “profoundly damage the future of documentary ...