These 25 films from 2025, hailing from all across the globe, represent the very best of what documentary cinema has to offer.

Documentaries and historical dramas offer those who witnessed major events firsthand the opportunity to see familiar times through new perspectives, enriched by archival materials that weren’t ...

"Don't be afraid. Keep on filming." The African country of Ghana has a rich history in the cinematic arts. Nonagenarian filmmaker Chris Hesse knows this more than anyone on the planet. Through his ...

The disruptive power of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements has shifted the conversation around storytelling about underrepresented and marginalized communities, even as the backlash in the ...

Sundance announces its 2026 line-up including Nuisance Bear by Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman and The AI Doc by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell.

March 30th, 1987—21-year-old Marlee Matlin, bespectacled and in a puff-sleeved purple gown, cautiously took the stage and changed the course of film history. Her Best Actress Oscar for the role of ...

Miami Beach mayor Steven Meiner is pushing to evict a theater from a city-owned space after the theater screened Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land. He claims it’s antisemitic. The ...

You may not have noticed that there are fewer documentaries in this year's Montclair Film Festival. But Tom Hall, artistic director of the festival, has noticed. "We're not programming as many ...