"Independent U.K. documentary is one of the most vital, truth-telling forces in our cultural life." By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The British Film Institute, BFI, unveiled an increase in its ...

Mariska Hargitay, Laura Poitras and other Oscar-contending nonfiction helmers discuss their process, subjects and inspirations. By THR Staff Eight of this year’s top documentary filmmakers — and Oscar ...

Few issues are as widely dissected and discussed within the film business today as the possibilities and consequences of AI technology. When it comes to documentary filmmaking, the discussion takes on ...

This year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), taking place in the Dutch city between Nov. 13-23, will open with a short documentary selection as a way of “showcasing the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The eyes and ears of attendees of the industry conference of CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, were ...

The International Documentary Association sounded off on the Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery mega-deal, slamming the business move as one that will “profoundly damage the future of documentary ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The British Film Institute, BFI, unveiled an increase in its support of U.K. documentary filmmaking on Monday. The BFI said it ...