Documentaries have only gotten better as time has gone on, and not simply because of hindsight. As such, we think these are the best history documentaries ever.

Every day is a good day to learn something new, and what better way to learn than by sitting on your couch and watching a movie? The streaming era has been a golden age for catching up on all those ...

A rejiggering of centuries of real history via fake news reports, and a restaging of a majestic work of theater within a virtual environment. A look back at a defining moment in our country’s history, ...

Documentaries have skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, meaning it’s easier than ever to access history in the making. While some lucky titles are famous enough to be well-known by mainstream ...

Documentaries can be many things. They can be diaries, profiles, calls to action, exposés, investigations, and everything in between. While many of us fall in love with film — either as viewers or ...

A sprawling odyssey of the Black experience, Independent journalists fighting back in Russia, the life of a bullfighter, a deep dive into the video-store era, meta dissections of true crime, a look ...

The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...

The documentary often gets a bad rap. Maybe you watched a few boring (or prescriptive) ones in school, in which talking heads drone on about what you ought to think or feel. However, despite its ...