Unlike action movies, documentaries have a unique ability to make us smarter on a topic, nearly instantly. They can also make us feel deeply, like a good novel or fictional film. Not every documentary ...

Year 2024 has officially come to a close, which means it’s time to recap some of the best documentaries, and there were a lot. From the top of the year all the way down to December, the documentary ...

Documentaries have remained more popular than ever. In recent years, likely thanks to the ease of streaming, more filmmakers than ever can bring intimate, real-life stories to the big screen. 2024, ...

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, “I’m dying.” Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their ...

2024 saw a total solar eclipse across much of North America, and the return of the McRib. A bunch of other stuff probably happened, too. Most importantly, there was a lot of great sports content on ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees met last fall in the World Series for the 12th time in MLB history. It was a matchup that featured two of baseball's biggest stars in Shohei Ohtani and ...

Last year was an incredible year for sports and storytelling. Alongside major international tournaments like the Olympics, Euro 2024, Africa Cup of Nations, and ICC World T20 came record-breaking ...

The truth hurts — any longtime documentary viewer, who’s likely sat through hundreds of hours of narrators intoning about atrocities over you-are-there footage, can tell you that. It’s also a concept ...

Reality doesn’t bite. Well, okay, at times it does. A number of our choices for the best documentaries of the year capture turbulent realities, ominous politics, and, on occasion, stark tragedy.