Netflix has a documentary for everyone in March 2026, featuring a star-studded slate of names. There’s K-pop band BTS, a Steven Spielberg-produced documentary, a Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary, and ...

Normal documentaries are nice and all, but those with arthouse sensibilities, like Koyaanisqatsi and Man with a Movie Camera, can be more exciting.

Documentaries can be many things. They can be diaries, profiles, calls to action, exposés, investigations, and everything in between. While many of us fall in love with film — either as viewers or ...

NPR's Linda Holmes and Sarah Handel discuss why they are hooked on documentaries and some of the best ones you may not yet have seen. The documentary industry is big business, bigger than ever, by ...

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 ...

Samsara uses its spectacular, globetrotting 70mm footage to philosophize about life on Earth, forging connections across time, space, and place. Fricke's meditation on cycles of creation and ...

In the last of three shorts roundups ahead of the March 15 ceremony, we profile this year's Oscar nominees for documentary short.

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 ...

Music documentaries have been providing deeper insights into what happens in the life of a music artist and with streaming channels like Netflix and Disney+ collaborating with artists, documentaries ...

Few things are as dependable in television as the annual onslaught of true-crime nightmares. Each year, a new crop of gruesome, devastating and, admit it, often fascinating documentaries about the ...