Life Stories, the nonprofit created by the Kunhardt family of documentary filmmakers, has relaunched its sprawling digital ...

Ames’ first documentary festival debuts Sunday with 11 films from Iowa & around the world. Free screenings at the library during the Octagon Art Fest.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world of cinema has lost another giant. Frederick Wiseman, the prolific documentary filmmaker and one of the greatest ...

Frederick Wiseman, a titan of American cinema whose singular approach to observational documentaries inspired generations of younger filmmakers, died on Monday. He was 96. Wiseman’s family confirmed ...

Documentarian John Wilson tells IndieWire about how documentaries need to avoid looking like AI while telling human stories.

Ross McElwee made his name as a creator of personal documentaries with “Sherman’s March,” from 1986, in which two strands of narrative are intertwined: McElwee’s efforts to make a film about the ...

Just more than 200 documentary features qualified for Oscar consideration this year, a record-breaking number. With so many films in the race, it becomes a major challenge to navigate through titles ...

People who come to their calling after being in another line of work tend to cling to it all the more fervently and work at it all the more relentlessly; they express gratitude for a second chance by ...

A new section includes highly anticipated titles like Alex Gibney’s four-hour Elon Musk documentary and an Oasis concert film. By Sarah Bahr As Alberto Barbera, the Venice Film Festival’s artistic ...

Oscars Best Documentary Short Film Commentary (Updated March 9, 2026): It’s been a banner year for the documentary short contenders, with each nominee presenting a compelling case for why it could ...