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.

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 ...

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 ...

An elderly woman turns to a camera over her shoulder and, staring into the lens, says without self-pity, “I’m dying.” Incarcerated men, unaccustomed to wearing suits and ties, anxiously adjust their ...

Last year was an incredible year for sports and storytelling. Alongside major international tournaments like the Olympics, Euro 2024, Africa Cup of Nations, and ICC World T20 came record-breaking ...

View post: One of the Greatest Opening Guitar Riffs of All-Time Belongs to a 1973 Hit — And You Know All the Words Here are the 10 best documentaries of 2024, covering history, music, science, TV, and ...

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 ...

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.