Though narrative film can transport us to imagined worlds, documentary cinema often turns the camera back on our own. From incisive personal profiles to true crime investigations and examinations of ...

As industry consolidation continues, documentary films face a challenging path to supportive investors, wide distribution, and sustainable success. But the best documentaries of 2025 go a long way ...

We live in strange times. Reality has become so bizarre that sometimes fiction feels tame by comparison.That's probably why documentaries have exploded in popularity recently. People crave truth, even ...

Documentaries are among the most compelling — and important — forms of filmmaking, and among the most crucial. It follows many of the same techniques as narrative work, but every bit of it is true. Of ...

The documentary often gets a bad rap. Maybe you watched a few boring (or prescriptive) ones in school, in which talking heads drone on about what you ought to think or feel. However, despite its ...