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 ...

We now live in a world where documentary filmmaking is constant. Through TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, many of us are fed a near-ceaseless stream of moving images drawn from the everyday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

From an unprecedented U.S. presidential campaign season, to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, to the continued rise of extremism around the globe, 2024 has been another turbulent year in the U.S.

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 ...

Industrial livestock farming is responsible for around 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. It also requires huge amounts of land and water and is thought to be contributing to the rise in ...

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.