Legendary documentarian Barbara Kopple tells us about the long legacy of her Oscar-winning film American Dream.

Martial art epics like Hero and dystopian sci-fi hits like Mad Max: Fury Road are just some of the 21st-century action movies ...

Kanso, who attended the Gaza competition section of 19th Cinema Verite with his documentary “Waed” in December 2025, was forced to leave his home because of the Israeli attacks, Mehr reported. In a ...

As both a resident of Minneapolis and a film and TV critic, it’s been surreal to see my home city become, over the past few weeks, the kind of place you might see in an especially on-the-nose ...

Béla Tarr has died. A pioneering figure in the slow cinema movement, whose work Sátántangó kept audiences enthralled for its extensive seven-hour runtime, Tarr died “after a long and serious illness,” ...

Robert De Niro took a moment to slam what he sees as pervasive political falsehood as he accepted the Cinéma Verité Award at CinemaCon‘s closing event. “Cinema audiences are returning to your theaters ...

Influencers: When few other awards bodies were recognizing the craft of documentary filmmaking, the NYC-based event offered up accolades, with a special flair. The documentary universe has changed ...

You stumble on a movie that doesn’t quite fit the studio mold. Maybe it plays around with form, experiments with narrative, or prioritizes symbolism and images over plot. A quick way to describe the ...

The wish of most fathers is that their children will be happy in life and in their chosen professions. However, in some cases, a child may elect to follow in their father’s footsteps. That is what ...

There’s an intensity to painter Rita Ackermann. Both in her person, crystallized in the sharpness of her bright eyes, and her canvases, which feel fervently worked over, their surfaces betraying ...

In the latest edition of Westdoc Online, host and executive producer Chuck Braverman chats with documentary filmmaking team Joan Churchill and Alan Barker. In their conversation with Braverman, the ...