Documentaries are all the rage, tackling everything from disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to the horror in Gaza. A ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most devastating events in U.S. history: the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001. To commemorate the day, there will be ...

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Netflix has no lack of true crime documentaries to watch, but deciding which one’s worth your time can be challenging. Luckily, we’re here to help. Below we’ve rounded up a curated list of some of the ...

It wasn’t long ago that the documentaries at the top of the box office each year were also the films on everyone’s lips. Think of Hoop Dreams or Roger and Me or, more recently, Won’t You Be My ...

Netflix and documentaries go together like salt and pepper, with the streamer garnering quite the reputation for high-quality docu-content. Although some may be heavily indulgent and fail to impress ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in plants, potentially provoking an involvement in botany and ecology. Researchers here noted ...

For decades, researchers assumed hyenas shadowed lions to steal scraps from fresh kills. But when GPS collars revealed ...