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, ...

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 ...

The fight for Palestinian livelihood, repatriation, the Argentine gaucho community, a pair of England’s greatest directors, Chinese textile mills, a legendary artist’s final performance, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were so many great, impactful and memorable movies on the 2024 movie schedule, and that’s also true when it comes to documentaries released over the past 12 months. Whether they appeared on some ...

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 ...

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.