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 ...

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, “I’m dying.” Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their ...

Co-directed by a Ukrainian special forces soldier and a Los Angeles filmmaker, "Porcelain War" movingly depicts artists at war. A tiny owl created by artists Slava Leontyev and Anya Stasenko perches ...

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.