At the 2025 edition of CPH:DOX, extreme political tension in the U.S. and parts of Europe cast a cloud of uncertainty over the Copenhagen-based documentary film festival. While nonfiction films that ...

A new trailer previewing Melania Trump’s eponymous documentary offers more questions than answers about the relationship between President Donald Trump and the first lady.

Prime Minister (now streaming on HBO Max) is an anomaly: an intimate, relatively unvarnished portrait of a major world leader. And a groundbreaking documentary deserves a groundbreaking subject in ...

Jane Rosenthal is taking the pulse of the nonfiction feature space — and it doesn’t look good. The mega-producer and Tribeca co-founder told Variety during a recent interview that she is “worried” ...

Ongoing coverage of the Trump administration, political polarization in America, elections and federal agencies, plus political documentaries including FRONTLINE’s landmark series “The Choice.” ...

Watermelon Pictures has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the political documentary “Sudan, Remember Us,” Variety can exclusively announce. The deal follows the film’s premiere at Venice Film ...

Documentaries have long served as some of cinema’s most powerful truth-tellers, often delivering seismic cultural impact with nothing more than reality as their script. The films on this list were ...

Political documentaries aren't afraid to tackle issues that mainstream news outlets have at times treaded lightly over or ignored completely. Michael Moore's incendiary smackdown of George W. Bush, ...

A new FOX 9 documentary "Everywhere & Forever: Blood. Water. And the Politics of PFAS." will reveal the inside story of how 3M withheld early research about PFAS contamination. The FOX 9 Investigators ...