As Forum, the industry program of documentary festival IDFA, launches today, Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, the festival’s head of industry, and its artistic director Isabel Arrate Fernandez, talk about ...

Frederick Wiseman, a titan of American cinema whose singular approach to observational documentaries inspired generations of younger filmmakers, died on Monday. He was 96. Wiseman’s family confirmed ...

A combination of technological developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer and filmmaker. What’s at stake is history itself. Critic’s Notebook A combination of technological ...

The film is the latest streamer-funded, carefully choreographed, boring, celebrity puff piece being branded as a documentary. It's also a harbinger of what sorts of "true stories" are being championed ...

The documentary festival returns for a 23rd edition that takes place across seven Polish cities simultaneously.

Filmmaker Pat Longstreth launched the Hindsight Film Festival, America's first festival dedicated to historical documentaries. The inaugural five-day event takes place in Savannah, Georgia, featuring ...

NPR's Linda Holmes and Sarah Handel discuss why they are hooked on documentaries and some of the best ones you may not yet have seen. The documentary industry is big business, bigger than ever, by ...