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If you watched Ken Burns’ 16-hour “Country Music” documentary when it came out in 2019, you might’ve been wishing that every legend whose life flashed by…

National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. streaming rights to Werner Herzog‘s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants, which had its world premiere at the Venice…

When Seymour Hersh remarks, in one of the superb archival clips excerpted in Cover-Up, that “nobody likes the messenger,” he knows what he’s talking about. For…

Jillian Michaels has already made it clear that she’s not happy with the Netflix docu-series Fit for TV and now she’s speaking out again. The former…

Berlin-based Austrian filmmaker Ivette Löcker (Night Shifts, Ties That Bind) likes to go deep on human relationships and connections.“My previous films have very often dealt with…

Documentarians must perform particularly tricky balancing acts with each new project. The audience expects their work to be richly cinematic, entertaining and surprising; the standards of…

The themes of loss, change, home, and the transient nature of life at a time when “communities across the world are being erased by industry, climate…

The Toronto Film Festival has agreed to terms with director Barry Avrich and his Israel October 7 documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue over…

Lifetime, branded as “Television for Women,” is all about empowering women. (Sometimes to kill their husbands, sure, but not always.) There is perhaps no better example…