Go beyond the hits with these powerful, intimate and often jaw-dropping documentaries that spotlight the artists, scandals and moments that shaped music history. Courtesy of Magnolia Picture; Courtesy ...

What does the U.S. government know about “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs), aliens and an alleged global alien technology arms race? A brand-new documentary claims to have an answer: more than it ...

In what’s poised to be one of the most gut-wrenching documentaries of 2025, All the Empty Rooms follows CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they memorialise the bedrooms ...

“The Age of Disclosure,” a documentary featuring government and military officials, was screened for a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives. The director Dan Farah at a showing ...

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 ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...

If you’ve seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa’s Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Eddie Murphy has solidly been established as Hollywood royalty after a decades-long career stretching from “Saturday Night Live” to “The Nutty Professor” to “Dreamgirls” and beyond. A key hallmark of ...

The director general and the UK broadcaster's top news executive quit in a row over the editing of a speech Donald Trump made before protesters attacked the US Capitol in Washington. BBC Director ...