Across movies and TV series, the best documentaries of 2025 are a disparate bunch bound by shared value and gleaming purpose.

Ella al-Shamahi is the perfect guide to our ancient ancestors. In Human, she takes us on a whistle-stop tour of our past over a span of 300,000 years, including our turbulent relations with other ...

The 10th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards celebrated the year's best in nonfiction filmmaking at a gala held in New York City on Sunday. The Perfect Neighbor was the night's biggest winner, ...

“The Perfect Neighbor” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2025 at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which were held on Sunday evening at the Edison Ballroom in New York City. Geeta ...

In the FRONTLINE documentary Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages, residents of a coastal Alaska Native community called Hooper Bay confront a dilemma. Their way of life relies in part on harvesting ...

My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay was named Best First Documentary Feature, and ties occurred in both the Best Historical Documentary and Best Music Documentary categories.

Sofia Coppola and Marc Jacobs at the Venice Film Festival photocall for their documentary 'Marc by Sofia.'Stefania D'Alessandro/WireImage/Getty Images The best ...

Yes, folks, we’re not even to Thanksgiving, and awards season is already in full swing. Currently in the spotlight: the year’s best documentaries, care of this year’s Critics Choice Documentary Awards ...