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EXCLUSIVE: Florida honors an elusive big cat known as the Florida Panther as its state animal, but the fate of the magnificent creature remains in doubt. For decades its habitat has been fragmented by development, and only 200 or so adult Florida Panthers remain. But legislation passed in 2021, and…

For young Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau, the distant chattering of a buzzsaw sends an ominous signal. It's the sound of his people's land in the Brazilian rainforest being chewed up by illegal invaders. The Oscar-shortlisted documentary The Territory, directed by Alex Pritz, shows how Bitaté and members of…

National Geographic has given the green light to a new series titled Underdogs with Ryan Reynolds set to narrate. Underdogs will tell the story of the heroic underdogs of the natural world – the good, the bad and the frankly ugly. From their hidden talents to their bold hygiene choices, unsavory…

EXCLUSIVE: Nutopia, the Welcome to Earth with Will Smith and Limitless with Chris Hemsworth producer, has created a Chief Creative Officer role for veteran exec Simon Willgoss. Willgoss, who has been with Jane Root’s transatlantic indie for the best part of a decade, was most recently EVP Development…

EXCLUSIVE: Till‘s Jalyn Hall will play another important Black American historical figure after booking a guest-starring role playing the young Martin Luther King Jr in Genius: MLK/X, the upcoming fourth installment in the Disney+/National Geographic anthology series. Kelvin Harrison Jr. (The Trial of…

In military parlance, the term retrograde can mean several things, among them withdrawal from a war zone, "where all or part of a deployed force voluntarily disengages from the enemy." The U.S. exit from the Vietnam War constituted a retrograde action, a chaotic process documented in Rory Kennedy's…

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…

Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisc. makes American flags – a huge number of them. More than five million a year, in fact.  It sells 3' by 5' outdoor flags for $39.99 or 50' by 80' giant Old Glories for a little under $10,000, and flags of every size in between and the flagpoles to fly them on. What's…

EXCLUSIVE: We have your first look at Matthew Heineman's gripping new film Retrograde from National Geographic Documentary Films, a visceral, ground-level immersion into the last nine months of America's long war in Afghanistan. In addition to releasing the trailer today, National Geographic also…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most honored documentaries of the year is heading to the very big screen. National Geographic Documentary Films and Neon announced today they are bringing Fire of Love to select Imax locations on October 16 and 17, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago…

It's been said that Katia and Maurice Krafft, the couple at the molten center of the award-winning documentary Fire of Love, loved two things — each other and volcanoes. The French scientists became famous decades ago for their study of volcanic activity around the world, an inherently dangerous…

National Geographic has closed a first-look deal with Chris Hemsworth and producer Ben Grayson's newly formed Wild State, a multi-platform production company that develops scripted and unscripted content. The duo are looking to create unscripted projects about adventure, exploration, travel and science for all of…