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Showtime is exploring an infamous teenage couple who were convicted of murdering 11 people in the 1950s in the network’s latest docuseries. The 12th Victim is a four-part docuseries following the crimes of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. Told through a stylistic blend of archival and…

Can you remember the last time a documentary actually took your breath away? I can. It happened on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in a theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The film was Citizenfour, which documented the encounters between National Security Agency whistleblower…

For years HBO Documentary Films, under the stewardship of Sheila Nevins, dominated the Oscars, racking up nominations and wins left and right. But since her departure in 2018 it has faced an Oscar dry spell, at least in the documentary feature category. All that could change this year, in a major…

The 35th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will open with Iranian-Dutch filmmaker Niki Padidar's All You See. The feature explores themes of exclusion and being an outsider through Padidar's own experiences in the Netherlands, which are interwoven with the…

Maite Alberdi, whose The Mole Agent was Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary last year, will be among documentarians pitching projects at the 30th Forum co-production meeting of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. Running November 14-16, within the framework of IDFA, the Forum and its…

National Geographic Documentary Films has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to Bobi Wine: The People's President, following its Venice Festival premiere. The film, directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp and produced by double Oscar winner John Battsek, follows Ugandan opposition leader, activist and…

"And the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature goes to… My Octopus Teacher… to American Factory… to Icarus." The Motion Picture Academy has enveloped Netflix nonfiction features with love again and again in recent years, rewarding the streamer with three trophies since 2018, not to mention half a dozen nominations…

Men are three times more likely to direct UK documentaries than women, according to damning research from the We Are Doc Women collective who urged quotas to address the situation. Today’s Factual Television Survey Report, which surveyed 700 people last November, found almost three-quarters (73%) of directors/series…

A Tiger King sequel is coming to Netflix this year as part of a new true-crime lineup of documentaries to be released. It's not exactly clear what the focus will be for the new season of Tiger King, but Deadline understands that the filmmakers met with and spoke to Joe Exotic (aka Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage né…

There are multiple ceremonies planned for Saturday, September 11, to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But before then, all the major networks and streamers are rolling out programming to commemorate the lives lost and provide perspective on one of the darkest days in U.S. history. For an…

For movies, the best thing to happen last week was documentarian Morgan Neville's flip response to The New Yorker's query about his having covertly used artificial intelligence to voice some of Anthony Bourdain's lines in the film Roadrunner. "If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably…

Just because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been quiet about its inner workings—a museum fund-raising announcement here, an Oscar press release there—doesn't mean it's been quiet inside. Every once in a while, rumblings from the Wilshire Blvd. headquarters are loud enough to be heard out…