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 ...

As Timothee Chalamet likely wheezes at some point in “A Complete Unknown,” the times they are a-changin’. While decidedly not a documentary (even the songs are recorded anew), the Bob Dylan biopic and ...

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 ...

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 ...