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

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Is this the year of the music documentary? Well, we're officially over halfway through 2025—and the ...

Documentaries in 2025 redefined storytelling, delving deep into gripping real-life tales and shedding new light on social issues like never before. The year’s lineup so far has offered something for ...

Susan Lorincz. For many Netflix viewers, the name inspires revulsion. Lorincz is the white woman who fired a gunshot through her front door, killing her Black neighbor, Ajike Owens in 2023, invoking ...