Netflix debuted dozens of brilliant documentary films and series throughout 2025. In this list, we count down our top 10.

Macdonald’s documentary is a thrilling, up-close experience with John Lennon, his wife Yoko, and his early New York years. Organized in the style of channel-surfing across the early 1970s, this ...

Cinema Eye Honors, the organization that “recognizes outstanding artistic achievement in nonfiction and documentary films and series” has launched its 19th annual celebrations today with the ...

As industry consolidation continues, documentary films face a challenging path to supportive investors, wide distribution, and sustainable success. But the best documentaries of 2025 go a long way ...

Netflix and filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir scored big as the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary Feature was released this morning. Netflix landed three films on the shortlist of documentaries that will ...

Just hours after news that legendary news broadcaster Bill Moyers had died, the icon was paid tribute at Thursday night's documentary portion of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' ...

Academy members will be asked to pick from 201 documentary features, 86 international features and 35 animated features. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards The documentary feature and ...

A lifelong gamer, film fanatic and fan of all things geeky, Andy studied Film and TV Screenwriting at university and achieved a master's degree in Scriptwriting in 2017. As a professional writer, Andy ...

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to the award-winning documentary A Photographic Memory, the directorial debut of Rachel Elizabeth Seed.

"Seized" tells the story of the Marion County Record. It will "make people think about what journalism really is and what ...

The 27th edition of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, launching on April 3, will feature a lineup of 34 feature documentaries and 15 short docs. The Durham, N.C.-based, four-day doc film fest ...

"The film continues to grow in scope as the story evolves," say HBO Films and Bleecker Street about the expansive documentary project. (Musk, meanwhile, has decried it as "a hit piece.") By Patrick ...