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 ...

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 ...

We now live in a world where documentary filmmaking is constant. Through TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, many of us are fed a near-ceaseless stream of moving images drawn from the everyday, ...

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 ...

From an unprecedented U.S. presidential campaign season, to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, to the continued rise of extremism around the globe, 2024 has been another turbulent year in the U.S.

Documentary films continued to triumph in 2024, making up some of the most entertaining, mind-opening, and emotional movies of the year, just as they did in 2024. The documentary medium featured a ...

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 ...

In a year in which it seemed like every great luminary got a moment under the documentary lens, it can be a bit difficult to parse out which were not-to-be-missed. From a fresh and very different take ...

As nearly half of the world’s population headed to the polls this year, politics grabbed many of the headlines. But scientists and the natural world also managed to attract the public’s attention.

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.