Director Morgan Neville's wide-ranging documentary about Saturday Night Live's coolly enigmatic creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, begins with an odd admission. Even with cameras in his ...

President Donald Trump’s far-reaching use of executive power. The challenges facing a post-Assad Syria. A Ukrainian brigade’s inch-by-inch battle to reclaim a Russian-held town. The realities of ...

The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians. We are lucky to have a long (and still-growing) library of ...

Who really was Hulk Hogan? It feels like everyone knows the man behind “Hulkamania.” A larger-than-life, muscular superhero that conquered evil in the ring, inspiring generations of people as he ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Notorious thrill-seeker and extreme athlete Dean Potter had always walked a fine line between life ...

In 2019, documentary filmmaker Alan Zweig’s friend Jim took his own life. Love, Harold, added this week to the NFB app and YouTube channel, is a collection of snippets of conversations that Zweig has ...

Some of the most essential documentaries infuriate you to the point of wanting to take action. The Alabama Solution is one of them, centering on systemic abuse within the Easterling Correctional ...

The year is just getting started, but there are already several compelling documentaries in the pipeline for the months ahead. Landing on Netflix next month is a long-awaited, three-part docuseries ...

After a few quiet months in 2026, Amazon Prime Video is finally giving sports fans the big-name documentaries that they deserve. NBA fans have already flocked to Jerry West: The Logo, a retrospective ...

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished ...