Mel Brooks is 100 years old now. Can you believe it? Well, a year prior to the insane milestone, he sat down for Mel Brooks: ...

It wasn’t long ago that the documentaries at the top of the box office each year were also the films on everyone’s lips. Think of Hoop Dreams or Roger and Me or, more recently, Won’t You Be My ...

October is here, which means Halloween and pumpkin spice season are upon us. October also means a new slate of documentaries are coming to streaming services. This month sees the debut of new ...

Netflix and documentaries go together like salt and pepper, with the streamer garnering quite the reputation for high-quality docu-content. Although some may be heavily indulgent and fail to impress ...

Festival documentaries ranged across the genre map, but several explored the lengths we’ll go to communicate with lost loved ones. By Alissa Wilkinson Everyone from the academy to streaming services ...

The typical star biography avoids warts. But there are films that combine critical takes with a better understanding of their subjects’ cultural import. By Alissa Wilkinson Pop open the “documentaries ...

The world is a weird and wonderful place full of weird and wonderful people, stories and things. And, thanks to some of the best documentaries out there, we get a chance to grab a peek at them all.

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in plants, potentially provoking an involvement in botany and ecology. Researchers here noted ...

Queer movies and TV shows are all well and good, but arguably even more important is the existence of great LGBTQ documentaries. Fiction can help provide great representation and tell moving queer ...

I’m excited to share with you something that I’ve found incredibly enriching and enlightening: the world of documentaries. It’s not just about sitting back and watching TV; it’s about engaging with ...