Werner Herzog's films chronicle the beauty and limitations of human ambition. His latest movie is an ode to perseverance masquerading as a nature documentary. Dreams took hold of Werner Herzog early ...

Venice: The anthropological charms of this documentary are everywhere — except at its center. On the surface, “Ghost Elephants” appears to be a throwback to one of Herzog’s canonical classics “Grizzly ...

Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, something he made abundantly clear with his 2012 film Room 237. Named after the ...

Valerie Veatch's blistering "Ghost in the Machine" is a radical, necessary Molotov cocktail of a documentary that's being thrown right into the heart of our nonsense, nightmarish world of overinflated ...

The scene at this year's Sundance Film Festival Getty Images When the Oscar nominations were announced last week there was much to celebrate for the Sundance Film Festival documentary programmers. The ...