Netflix is home to several great documentaries covering a wide range of subgenres, but only a few display the technical and artistic brilliance, journalistic rigor, and moving narratives necessary to ...

The best nature documentaries — and I’m thinking especially of those narrated by Attenborough for the BBC — are great on their own terms — and I’ll say why in a moment. But they’re great in this ...

Every now and then, a movie, show, or documentary comes around and completely catches you by surprise. That recently happened to me when I watched the 2025 Netflix original film, Pangolin: Kulu’s ...

A look back at some of the rarest wildlife moments captured over the last decade of NATURE documentaries. “American Ocelot” A Production of Fin And Fur Films Productions, LLC and The WNET Group in ...

The signature scene in the Oscar-winning 1958 Disney documentary “White Wilderness” features a mass suicide of lemmings. That scene was disturbing for the faint of heart, but that’s not why the film ...

This month’s picks follow a journalist facing an Alzheimer’s diagnosis and a unionization effort for Amazon workers. Plus, an exploration into the nature of film editing. By Ben Kenigsberg The ...

In this month’s picks, one filmmaker wields his own camera, another looks back on a disastrous Chicago heat wave and a third exposes the illusory workings of the diamond industry. By Ben Kenigsberg ...