Ken Burns on ‘Leonardo da Vinci’
Why the Filmmakers Broke Their Rules for PBS' Portrait of the Renaissance Icon
Why the Filmmakers Broke Their Rules for PBS' Portrait of the Renaissance Icon
Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to BuzzFeed Studios’ documentary “Brother Orange.” The doc follows the story of Matt Stopera, a BuzzFeed founding…
It’s been 10 months since “Sugarcane” first premiered at Sundance, where it picked up the Directing Award: U.S. for documentary. Since then, directors Emily Kassie and Julian…
At the heart of maximalist rock outfit The Mars Volta are two friends: guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala. The pair met as El Paso high-schoolers…
Documentary filmmakers and industry leaders gathered at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam to discuss “independence and resistance in times of…
Director Mstyslav Chernov and other AP journos document Russian Federation forces' prolonged military assault on the Ukrainian port city last year.
It tells the stirring and riveting-as-a-thriller story of Alexei Navalny: his poisoning, his challenge to Vladimir Putin, his fearless role as Russia's opposition leader.
Buried for 50 years, the spectacular filmed footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival reveals a musical moment — and a Black revolution — in full flower.
Presenter-producer Craig Foster imposes his own story somewhat heavily on this underwater spectacular, but it's hard not to be won over.
In tandem with Women’s History Month, the documentary “The Life & Times of Liz Carpenter” will premiere on public television stations in March. It will also stream on PBS.org and…
“Becoming Led Zeppelin,” a documentary that chronicles the origins and meteoric rise of the iconic English rock band, will play on the big screen in 2025. Sony Picture…
A two-hour special on the downfall of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez will kick off the new season of ID’s football-themed true crime series “Murder Under the…
French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker Lina Soualem, whose documentary “Bye Bye Tiberias,” featuring her mother Hiam Abbas (“Succession”), launched positively from Venice and…
Documentary “Sampai Mati” (Until Death), which explores the aftermath of the 2002 Bali bombings through the perspectives of Australian survivors and Balinese locals, is being…
A new documentary project, “Me, My Mother’s Favorite Monkey” (Aku, Monyet Kesayangan Ibuku), helmed by director Ivonne Kani, examines Chinese-Indonesian identity through the lens…
Three generations of women confront the elephant in their room — a stepfather’s sexual abuse — in Chloe Abrahams’ “The Taste of Mango.” The filmmaker’s first feature reflects her…
Anyone flipping past a cable channel late at night in the back half of the 1990s and early aughts probably had ads for “Girls Gone Wild” seared into their brains. The instantly…
Grain Media, the two-time Oscar-winning British documentary company behind acclaimed titles such “The White Helmets,” “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)” and…
Here are some of the best politically relevant documentaries to help make sure you're up to speed on the historical background of some of the most important issues.
By Pat Saperstein
Who could take home the Oscar?
Variety editors ranked top documentaries about Hollywood -- films that examine productions gone out of control and key figures behind the scenes.
Here are 10 noteworthy true-crime documentaries dating back to the late 1980s.
Our list of the must-watch documentaries of 2023.