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 ...

Though narrative film can transport us to imagined worlds, documentary cinema often turns the camera back on our own. From incisive personal profiles to true crime investigations and examinations of ...

While we often give you the seven best films on streamers, TheWrap is giving you an all-new list that’s dedicated to informative and educational films. While viewers often walk away from cinematic ...

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 ...

If you've had your fill of binge-watching scripted shows, kick back with a documentary to tell you what's going on in the ...

Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs at the Venice Film Festival photocall for their documentary 'Marc by Sofia.'Stefania D'Alessandro/WireImage/Getty Images The best ...

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.

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 ...