Documentaries have long served as some of cinema’s most powerful truth-tellers, often delivering seismic cultural impact with nothing more than reality as their script. The films on this list were ...

Samsara uses its spectacular, globetrotting 70mm footage to philosophize about life on Earth, forging connections across time ...

Since World War II was such a massive and globe-spanning conflict (they weren’t kidding with the “world” part in its title), it’s perhaps understandable that it’s the most frequently explored in ...

Normal documentaries are nice and all, but those with arthouse sensibilities, like Koyaanisqatsi and Man with a Movie Camera, ...

DEC. 12, 2025 — ONE IN A MILLION, a new feature documentary from FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and BBC Storyville, will make its world premiere at the ...

Just as there’s been no shortage of wars, and movies about said wars, so too is there no shortage of documentaries about war. Some of these are TV shows, and are arguably more suited to that format ...