An Alabama pastor is working to extend the Oscar buzz and attention from a documentary into meaningful reform behind prison walls across the state. Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, an activist based in ...

Kidnapping, cults, and white-collar crimes. Content about the criminal underworld is vast, but EW assembled the 29 best documentaries to satisfy your appetite for true crime tales.

Though narrative film can transport us to imagined worlds, documentary cinema often turns the camera back on our own. From incisive personal profiles to true crime investigations and examinations of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Best documentaries on Netflix While we often live through the world of fiction when it comes to storytelling, the truth is ...

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

Alabama is headed into an unusual week where Hollywood buzz, unlikely political alliances, and a searing prison documentary are converging to force new scrutiny of the state’s correctional system. On ...

The Alabama Solution (now streaming on HBO Max) is a documentary primed to make a difference. After a decade working on the film, directors Andrew Jarecki (whose filmography includes hard-hitting docs ...

A Montgomery pastor who ministers in Alabama prisons told state lawmakers Wednesday that he sees incarcerated men who are traumatized by what he described as a culture of drugs, extortion, rape, and ...

An Oscar-nominated documentary exposing violence inside prison walls is coming to Oklahoma City. Criminal justice reform advocates want to bring attention to Oklahoma’s prison system by showing the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined CBS 42 Morning News to respond to a documentary highlighting the horrific conditions of the Alabama prison system. The ...

Theroux is a prolific filmmaker, and has made more than 70 documentaries over the course of 25 years. He’s gone to some of ...

Come See Me in the Good Light, Cutting Through Rocks, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Oscars, The Alabama Solution, The Perfect Neighbor Best documentary has become the toughest Oscar category to predict in ...