Documentaries often carry an implicit promise: that what you’re watching is grounded in truth. While creative framing, editing, and narrative are part of the genre, audiences generally trust that the ...

Fictional stories have the ability to mirror reality, to reveal universal truths about living and society that expose the deepest crevices of humanity. But documentaries hold just as much power — they ...

Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks. Over the past decades, ...

In “TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing,” Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez avoid the trap many directors of biographical films fall into. It’s hard to capture a full life in less than ...

The strength of documentary Jail Time Records, however, is that it explores the challenges of life behind these bars through ...

The documentary form is having a major moment. Between the explosion of true crime on streaming services and high-production nature series, the documentary is no longer just a dry history lesson. But ...

One of the first examples of documentary media from post-socialist Bulgaria. Shortly after the July student strike of 1990 the "Largo" square becomes a tent encampment. Students, elders, journalists, ...

Sundance, Berlin, Cannes – the world’s most important film festivals are embracing the latest work from award-winning filmmaker Mark Cousins: his 16-chapter The Story of Documentary Film. At Sundance, ...