This month’s picks feature an unfinished opera, an excavation of Chilean history and teen environmental sleuths.

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 ...

Those scholarly folks at TCM have done it again. The network has unveiled its latest franchise, "Films on Film," which will feature a documentary followed by a selection of movies that gives viewers ...

The streaming landscape can feel endless. It’s not and we’re here to help. Netflix has hundreds of documentaries in its streaming library, but they’re not all created equal, and we’ve narrowed down ...

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 ...

Academy members will be asked to pick from 201 documentary features, 86 international features and 35 animated features. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards The documentary feature and ...

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As someone who watches and studies the Academy Awards every year, I can tell you that the Best Documentary Short Subject nominees are frequently heavy, and often depressing. This milieu is often ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. “Musk,” directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, stretches for three hours and 45 minutes and portrays Musk as an “unabashed megalomaniac,” ...

One of the films will follow the efforts of the Hemophilia Foundation of Nigeria, led by Megan Adediran, to increase hemophilia diagnoses via a fleet of mobile medical vans. (Believe Limited) Not long ...

Music has always been a universal language, but the way audiences experience it continues to evolve. In previous decades, fans relied on television broadcasts, DVD releases, or cinema screenings to ...

The full program for Sydney Film Festival 2026 has been revealed, including a strong line-up of new documentaries. The festival runs from 3 to 14 June at cinemas across Sydney. There are ...