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Documentary’s “Greatest Docs of the 21st Century” lists are filled with documentary portraits that flatter and model a way of looking at the world. By Manuel Betancourt. Read more at .

Greatest Docs of the 21st Century: Portrait of a Practice Documentary’s “Greatest Docs of the 21st Century” lists are filled with documentary portraits that flatter and model a way of looking at the world

Reducing Risk in Documentary: Insurance, Copyright & Defamation Essentials. Join us Friday, June 26, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM PT at Ethos Society in Los Angeles. This multi-part program is designed to provide documentary filmmakers with practical legal tools to identify, assess, and reduce risk throughout the life of a project. Register today!

Reducing Risk in Documentary: Insurance, Copyright & Defamation Essentials This multi-part program is designed to provide documentary filmmakers with practical legal tools to identify, assess, and reduce risk throughout the life of a project. The sessions will emphasize best practices that help filmmakers protect their work, secure their rights, strengthen their projects,....

The Citizenfour cinematographer and Flood director on her “simple and vital” camera bag philosophy. Read more at . https://documentary.org/column/whats-my-bag-katy-scoggin

Guillaume Massart talks about his new doc, 'Detention,' where he dissects the French carceral system without once stepping foot in a prison. Read more at .

Playing Tough: Guillaume Massart on His French Prison Doc ‘Detention’ Guillaume Massart talks about his new doc, Detention, where he dissects the French carceral system without once stepping foot in a prison

On the occasion of Documentary’s Greatest Docs of the 21st Century list, we ask: What grants someone the authority to assert an opinion on what is the best, or the most important? Read more at .

Greatest Docs of the 21st Century: Toward New Forms of List-Making On the occasion of Documentary’s Greatest Docs of the 21st Century list, we ask: What grants someone the authority to assert an opinion on what is the best, or the most important?

A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice. Read more at .

Between Myth and Reality: Documentary in Iran’s Cinema-ye Azad Movement A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice

The editor of ‘Spermworld’ and ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ on valuing portability and good sound. Read more at .

What’s on My Desk: Daniel Garber The editor of Spermworld and How to Blow Up a Pipeline on valuing portability and good sound

In this essay, filmmaker Everardo González questions the narrative promises of the true crime genre and calls on a new kind of ethics in telling stories with what he dubs a “documentary of loss.” Read more at .

A Pleasant Murder: Everado González on True Crime’s False Promises and Creating a ‘Documentary of Loss’ Instead In this essay, filmmaker Everardo González questions the narrative promises of the true crime genre and calls on a new kind of ethics in telling stories with what he dubs a “documentary of loss”