The great documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles once said in an interview that “what a documentary is very special at doing ...

Beyonce's 'Homecoming' and 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' are some of EW's picks on our list of the 30 best documentaries on Netflix.

Samsara uses its spectacular, globetrotting 70mm footage to philosophize about life on Earth, forging connections across time, space, and place. Fricke's meditation on cycles of creation and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, we've enjoyed quite a few more docs this year, running the gamut from NFL cheerleading to a Safdie brothers–produced ...

Documentaries can be many things. They can be diaries, profiles, calls to action, exposés, investigations, and everything in between. While many of us fall in love with film — either as viewers or ...

Kidnapping, cults, and white-collar crimes. Content about the criminal underworld is vast, but EW assembled the 29 best documentaries to satisfy your appetite for true crime tales.

Normal documentaries are nice and all, but those with arthouse sensibilities, like Koyaanisqatsi and Man with a Movie Camera, can be more exciting.

The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...