Ahead, discover 31 documentaries that remind us that the real world is still cinema’s richest terrain.

To Andersen, it's a study of home. Los Angeles Plays Itself is one of the best documentaries of all time and a beautiful retrospective of ideological metamorphosis. Grey Gardens follows the day-to ...

With the advent of televised sports—and, in recent decades, faster, more modern ways of documentation—sports documentaries have proliferated as a popular genre. This Netflix series, a Covid-era ...

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These are the best documentaries of all time, A documentary about a movie, Jodorowsky’s Dune is one of the great tributes to ...

CB From HBO, this emotional documentary displays one of the pivotal ... but also Johnson the symbol of a time when, according to the Emmy winning movie, “Black Americans were no longer enslaved ...

Its egregious snub in the Oscars’ best-documentary category led to a change ... story of one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time. It’s a visually stunning and emotionally gripping ...