Films have always had a penchant for imagining technologies that were meant for ages ...

Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the ra ...

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From learning the alphabet on sand in a Telugu-medium school to becoming one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, Dr ...

Modern manufacturing operates at such a high speed that few issues are as frustrating—or as costly—as adhesion failure. Ink smears on food wrappers, coatings that refuse to flow evenly across medical ...

There’s a lighthouse on Lake Superior’s edge that looks like it was placed there by someone with impeccable taste and a flair for the dramatic, and that place is the Au Sable Light Station near ...

Samsara uses its spectacular, globetrotting 70mm footage to philosophize about life on Earth, forging connections across time ...

Oscars Best Documentary Short Film Commentary (Updated March 9, 2026): It’s been a banner year for the documentary short contenders, with each nominee presenting a compelling case for why it could ...

Normal documentaries are nice and all, but those with arthouse sensibilities, like Koyaanisqatsi and Man with a Movie Camera, can be more exciting.

While we’re always down for a good narrative film, sometimes the most compelling stories are the ones pointing the camera at our own world. From personal profiles to investigations, from stories of ...

This year's Oscar-nominated documentaries include a tale of terminal cancer, dispatches from behind bars in Alabama, and stories from Iran and Russia.