documentary

San Antonio filmmaker Nick Mery’s “One Night Stand in Tokyo” follows South Texas jazz drummer Brandon Guerra as he collaborates with Japanese musicians. The documentary screens at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in November, continuing Mery’s exploration of cultural connection and identity.

Nathan Fielder's new film about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes blurs the lines between reality and fiction. The film can be genuinely gripping — but the truth might not be so ambiguous.

Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot a space craft. A new documentary charts her path to the stars. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Collins and film director Hannah Berryman.

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

A film about first lady Melania Trump premieres this week, with big presidential promotion.

PBS has been a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. But with the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, nonfiction storytellers have to figure out a way forward.

The new documentary film 'InDoctornated' is a joyous celebration of how the shared experience of loving a great show can actually help someone find purpose in life. It screens at the San Antonio Film Festival on Wednesday, July 23.

Culled from rare footage from Thelonious Monk in concert and in the studio, Charlotte Zwerin's fascinating portrait of the eccentric pianist, released in 1988, is newly available on Blu-ray. TPR's Nathan Cone has a review of the disc.

The filmmakers of this emotionally powerful documentary followed Delwin Fiddler Jr. as he returned home to South Dakota after years in Philadelphia — then kept revisiting him for more than a decade.

With the Israeli-Hamas conflict widening to fight Hezbollah in Lebanon, filmmaker Nick Mery shares with the public his award-winning, filmed portrait of his ancestral homeland. "The power of the human spirit is inextinguishable," he says. "And Lebanon is no stranger to conflict or strife."