If there’s one thing both Alex Gibney and Scientology should agree upon, it’s the value of...

The documentary The Salt of the Earth is a film about my father, the photographer Sebastião...

Q: What are the rules regarding wiretapping in documentaries? When people think of wiretapping, they imagine federal agents...

“Do you know anyone who became a movie star at 87?” joked Seymour Bernstein, the subject...

Boxing was once the epitome of the American Dream. A sport that offered hope to those...

How Denny Tedesco spent 19 years making The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about ’60 musical legends—and...

She patiently listened to the details, time and time again, that sounded too eerily similar. A...

I had known Roger Ebert for a couple of years when I formed my first lasting...

Two days. $1,000. A camcorder and pack of tapes. A cast of alcoholics, drug addicts, war...

It’s only natural this week to be thinking about love—and all the associated tropes of “romance”...

In her documentary Kidnapped for Christ, Kate Logan set out with the innocuous plan to film...

You love documentaries. And what better way to satisfy your doc habit than by plunking down...

Waiting for August is Teodora Ana Mihai’s debut documentary film about a teenage girl raising six siblings...

Directed by Neil Berkeley (Beauty is Embarrassing), the road documentary Harmontown follows Dan Harmon, creator of...

Few would argue if you called Frederick Wiseman one of the world’s greatest living documentarians. And...

PBS’ new documentary series, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, premieres on September 14, with the first of...

Sunshine Superman, about BASE jumping pioneer Carl Boenish, is the opening night documentary premiere at this...

Hours and hours digging through material, carefully placing things in the right order, puzzling out a...

How did the documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball, about indie baseball team the Portland Mavericks,...

Stephen Silha is the co-director of Big Joy: the Adventures of James Broughton, a lyrical documentary...

This week’s Crowdfunder Pick is Ambulante California, a U.S. spin-off of a traveling documentary film festival...

Behind the Gate is co-directors Jack Lucarelli and Mark Giardino’s documentary about the tremendous efforts that...

If you had rare access to one of the most intense medical environments in the world,...

Australian Nicholas Wrathall, the producer/writer/director of the new documentary Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, sees...