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A hot lineup including Barack Obama, Steph Curry and hip hop star J. Cole are to feature in the long-gestating Fremantle documentary about the African basketball league. Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League was first announced nearly three years ago and counts Beckham director and Succes…

In the wake of the debut of Masters of the Air, Apple TV+ will stream The Bloody Hundredth, a new documentary honoring the real-life heroes of the 100th Bomb Group. Produced by Playtone-Amblin and narrated by Tom Hanks, The Bloody Hundredth will premiere globally on Friday, March 15 – around the…

UPDATED with latest: The Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTAs are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like as the film-awards conversation takes center stage ahead of the Oscars on March 10. Check back often for updates…

When director Amber Fares came out with her documentary Speed Sisters, about the Middle East's first all-women race car driving team, the New York Times praised it as "unconventional in form as well as content." Many films about that part of the world have depicted Arab women cloaked in niqabs…

At their nearest point, Taiwan and mainland China are less than a hundred miles apart. But historically and politically – for over 70 years – a broad gulf has separated them. In the case of the Kinmen Islands, part of Taiwan, the paradox between geography and history is even more stark: the islands sit…

Major news today for Oscar-nominee To Kill a Tiger. Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas is joining the award-winning feature documentary as an executive producer, alongside Dev Patel, Mindy Kaling, and other bold-faced names. The news comes as Netflix inks a deal to launch the film globally on its platform…

Kaouther Ben Hania's Oscar-nominated Four Daughters (Les Filles d'Olfa) won Best Documentary at the César Awards, France's equivalent of the Academy Awards. The ceremony, which crowned Anatomy of a Fall as Best Film, took place Friday night at the Olympia Theater in Paris. The win for Four Daughters…

It's very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky's latest documentary as "Architection," since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is very easy to figure out whodunit (spoiler: we did it to…

The documentary 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers, featuring Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, is set to stream on Hulu + Live TV on February 22nd. Produced by Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment, in association with GroupM Motion Entertainment, the documentary…

MTV Documentary Films is making its Oscar-nominated documentary The Eternal Memory available for free on YouTube through the rest of the month. The film, winner of the Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film and the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival among…

The LAUSD Education Foundation is embarking on a major capital campaign to benefit the musical instrument repair operation documented in the Oscar-nominated film The Last Repair Shop. The $15 million campaign, revealed at an event at Hollywood High School Tuesday night, will invest in the repair…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival. Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Deadline understands that…