Long-form reporting, films and ideas that deserve more time.
From warfronts to family histories, documentary filmmaking reached a new peak of ambition and audience in 2025, becoming essential viewing in a confused media age.
After years of criticism, true crime storytelling in 2024 pivoted toward investigative accountability, centring victims and pressing for answers over spectacle.
The Venice Film Festival’s 2024 documentary awards celebrated a generation of filmmakers pushing the form toward the essay, the archive and the experimental.
A new wave of conflict documentaries put the experience of ordinary people at the centre, challenging the distant, aerial view of modern war.
From war zones to natural disasters, the videos filmed by ordinary people became the primary evidence of a chaotic world, transforming how news and documentaries are made.
