The 19th-century poet is the subject of a new film by the Ewers Brothers, Ken Burns and Don Henley that urges us to travel ...

First-time feature directors Jack Weisman and Gabriela Oslo Vanden won the Grand Jury Prize in Park City for their unconventional nature documentary.

Jeffrey Epstein joined Mr. Cavett’s wife in an effort to create a PBS documentary on the talk-show legend. But then the producers did a background check on the financier. By Michaela Towfighi and ...

Best Documentary Short Film has an infamous reputation for being one of the more difficult categories to conquer. Because of their obviously abridged length, they require less time in post-production, ...

From the very beginning, the United States of America has been at war—not just abroad, but domestically. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with scholar and author Dylan ...

As someone who watches and studies the Academy Awards every year, I can tell you that the Best Documentary Short Subject nominees are frequently heavy, and often depressing. This milieu is often ...

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Steve Hartman embraces his role ...

The 23rd annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is a hybrid event. Screenings at the Wilma Theater, Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC), the Roxy Theater, and Missoula Community Theater (MCT) run ...

The filmmaker becomes the first woman nominated for both Documentary Feature and Documentary Short in the same year, driven by stories of women navigating systems that put them at risk.

Frederick Wiseman, whose 60-year project of quietly asking America to look at itself — without sermon or embellishment, yet wielding the camera with an ethical ferocity‚ has died at the age of 96.

Kickoff of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece. TiDF EXCLUSIVE: The 28 th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece has announced films that will contend ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The 2026 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is underway in Missoula, featuring nonfiction films from the American West. The festival runs through Feb. 22. Venues include Zootown Art ...