The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...

We live in strange times. Reality has become so bizarre that sometimes fiction feels tame by comparison.That's probably why documentaries have exploded in popularity recently. People crave truth, even ...

Tyler Coates examins why the best documentary has become the toughest Oscar category to predict in recent years.

The documentary often gets a bad rap. Maybe you watched a few boring (or prescriptive) ones in school, in which talking heads drone on about what you ought to think or feel. However, despite its ...