Netflix debuted the official trailer for Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, the new documentary directed by Luke Sewell (Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King), that goes behind the scenes of America’s most controversial talk show to expose its biggest scandals, both on- and off-camera.
From Emmy-nominated director Sally Aitken, Every Little Thing is a documentary following the journey of specialist hummingbird rehabilitator Terry Masear as she attempts her goal to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced the 2025 Documentary Motion Picture nominees for the 36th Annual Producers Guild Awards.
Kicking off December, a vast selection of movies is hitting theaters. Steffen Haars and Nick Frost’s family-thriller-comedy Get Away follows a family vacation in Sweden gone wrong. Amy Adams turns into a canine in Nightbitch. Justin Kurzel brings action to theaters with The Order starring Jude Law while Kyle Mooney brings back the early 2000s with Y2K. Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera’s You Are Not Me turns family drama into horror. Jharrel Jerome is one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles in Unstoppable. Christmas trip turns into heartbreak in H. Nelson Tracey’s drama Breakup Season. Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon attempt to escape mobsters in Lake George. Magnus von Horn’s period drama captures post-WW1 Copenhagen in The Girl With the Needle. Lillah Halla’s Power Alley follows a teenage volleyball player and her struggle for women’s rights in Brazil. Ralph Fiennes is Odysseus in Uberto Pasolini’s The Return. Joshua Oppenheimer’s apocalyptic musical The End stars Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon, and documentary Sabbath Queen follows the story of a gay rabbi.
No Other Land won the top prize of Best Feature Documentary at the 40th IDA Documentary Awards along with Best Director for Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. The documentary was also honored with the Courage Under Fire Award.
Academy Award-winning director Julia Reichert (American Factory, Union Maids), who passed away in 2022, reflects on her life as a filmmaker and activist in the new Netflix documentary Julia’s Stepping Stones. Narrated by Reichert herself and created with her longtime collaborator and husband, Steve Bognar, the film traces her journey from a working-class upbringing to becoming an Oscar and Emmy-winning artist.
Sony Pictures Classics will release the documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin directed by Bernard MacMahon (American Epic), exclusively in IMAX on February 7, 2025, in almost 200 theaters. Ahead of the release, IMAX Theatres will hold one night only early access screenings on February 5, 2025 in eighteen markets.
Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for “The Secret Lives of Animals,” the new 10-part docuseries narrated by SAG Award winner Hugh Bonneville (Paddington, Downton Abbey).
Mary Bernice McGee, the legendary motorsports pioneer, and star of the documentary Motorcycle Mary died on Wednesday, November 27, at the age of 87.
Originally premiered in 2022, legendary filmmaker and documentarian Werner Herzog’s latest work, Theater of Thought, is set for its U.S. theatrical debut this December. The documentary delves into the study and technology of the human mind, following Herzog and Columbia professor Rafael Yuste as they travel across the country to meet innovators in cerebral research and bioethics.
Following its North American premiere at the Asian World Film Festival, Fang Li’s feature documentary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru opened for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run in U.S. theaters. The film chronicles the search for the wreckage of the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese freighter carrying British POWs that was unknowingly torpedoed by a U.S. submarine in 1942.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, the award-winning documentary chronicling the inspiring life of celebrated actor, will have its streaming debut on HBO and Max.