Here’s a brief history of documentary moviegoing. In the 1960s, the documentary as we know it was being invented, but hardly anyone saw them. In the ’70s and ’80s, a new generation of masters — ...
Clockwise top left: 'Kokomo City,' 'The Eternal Memory,' 'Smoke Sauna Sisterhood,' 'In the Rearview' Magnolia Pictures, MTV Documentary Films, Alexandra Film, Film Movement By one measure, 2023 was a ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
In recent years, Max has emerged as one of the biggest streaming platforms in the world. Originally named HBO Max, the streaming service has an extraordinary catalog of movies and TV shows. However, ...
2023 has been another year of tumult in the U.S. and across the globe. FRONTLINE has kept pace, releasing documentary after documentary asking tough questions and holding power to account both at home ...
The most interesting storytelling happening on screen in 2023 came via documentaries. These real-life narratives ran the gamut, from bittersweet love stories to extreme sports disasters, harrowing ...
In the age of the internet, the world has become smaller, more connected—and a lot messier. In fact, it can be convincingly argued that the events of especially the last 10 to 15 years show humankind ...
The same was true in the world of nonfiction film. Half of the movies on this list were directed by filmmakers already responsible for some of the best documentaries of this era: reliable old hands ...