Across movies and TV series, the best documentaries of 2025 are a disparate bunch bound by shared value and gleaming purpose.

Crime has always been a subject of fascination. In colonial New England, pamphlets on murders were handed out, featuring recaps of crimes and trials, plus any last words criminals uttered before they ...

Picks this month include a Bob Dylan sleeper, a harrowing portrait of Syria, and Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s road trip. By Ben Kenigsberg The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services ...

On Wednesday, one of the all-time greatest and most entertaining music documentaries will be made available in remastered and expanded form on Disney Plus. The Beatles Anthology originally aired on ...

Unlike narrative films, which often aim to entertain and frequently offer escapism to viewers, documentaries have a different function. Many nonfiction films want the viewer to understand something ...