Director Morgan Neville's wide-ranging documentary about Saturday Night Live's coolly enigmatic creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, begins with an odd admission. Even with cameras in his ...

As we pass the first quarter of 2026, Netflix has already released a ton of outstanding and acclaimed documentaries. This includes a decades-in-the-making nature documentary from David Attenborough, ...

A new documentary by the “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris looks at the legacy of Jerry West, a figure so crucial to the N.B.A.’s history that he’s the league’s logo. By Jonathan Abrams No single ...

Who really was Hulk Hogan? It feels like everyone knows the man behind “Hulkamania.” A larger-than-life, muscular superhero that conquered evil in the ring, inspiring generations of people as he ...

Some of the very best sports documentaries of the past decade have been exclusive to Netflix. 2026 is already shaping up to be another excellent year for sports documentaries on Netflix, with the ...

What happens when you bet on nature? In “Wilding,” a new documentary from PBS, one couple’s gamble pays off in extraordinary ways. “Wilding” follows the true story of Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree ...

The four-part documentary series, “The Dark Wizard,” chronicles legendary climber and BASE jumper Dean Potter and premieres on Tuesday, April 14. “The Dark Wizard” is an up-close and unflinching ...

"My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders" is a new documentary from Paramount+ that looks into the decades-long mystery of a whether Donald Dean Studey was a serial killer. The bizarre mystery of ...

Netflix's new documentary, Noah Kahan: Out of Body, is surprisingly candid in an age where TikTok and social media promotes inauthenticity. In the age of self-produced music documentaries, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — It’s a sweltering day at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival, and director Patricia E. Gillespie has just finished taking part in a true crime panel. She’s there with her new Hulu ...

The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians. We are lucky to have a long (and still-growing) library of ...