How Melania serves its titular subject, its filmmakers, and its financier by invoking documentary’s authenticity but not its accountability
Docs about Politics
Seven decades of nuclear documentaries oscillate between state propaganda and radical witness, revealing more about power than atoms
Newly restored documentaries from the 1950s–1980s reveal how Caribbean filmmakers forged a liberation cinema and why its practices matter now
Sinéad O’Shea talks about the challenges of capturing Fergie Chambers’s many contradictions in All About the Money
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
In this interview, Fil Ieropoulos discusses his documentary-cum-manifesto, Avant-Drag! Radical Performers Re-Imagine Athens
DOK Leipzig 2025: Doc Together, ‘The Thing to Be Done,’ ‘Elephants & Squirrels,’ and ‘A Scary Movie’
The world’s oldest documentary festival continues its commitment to an equitable world, from supporting exiled filmmakers to its programming
IndieCollect’s Sandra Schulberg reflects on the life of fellow co-founder Jill Godmilow, the iconoclastic filmmaker, beloved teacher, and influential
Working with over 1,000 hours of archival footage, Ian Bell and Alex Megaro connect their record of Seattle’s 1999 mass protests, WTO/99, with present
Petra Costa’s new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics explores the “fatal marriage” between Christian nationalism and authoritarian politics