Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unlike action movies, documentaries have a unique ability to make us smarter on a topic, nearly instantly. They can also make us ...

Documentary films continued to triumph in 2024, making up some of the most entertaining, mind-opening, and emotional movies of the year, just as they did in 2024. The documentary medium featured a ...

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Year 2024 has officially come to a close, which means it’s time to recap some of the best documentaries, and there were a lot. From the top of the year all the way down to December, the documentary ...

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, “I’m dying.” Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their ...

Reality doesn’t bite. Well, okay, at times it does. A number of our choices for the best documentaries of the year capture turbulent realities, ominous politics, and, on occasion, stark tragedy.

The truth hurts — any longtime documentary viewer, who’s likely sat through hundreds of hours of narrators intoning about atrocities over you-are-there footage, can tell you that. It’s also a concept ...