Framed as a video journal, Gleason is a thought-provoking documentary that tracks football player Steve Gleason’s arduous struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Renowned self-help speaker and author Tony Robbins is a walking contradiction. He is at once an absolute embodiment of egoistic, swaggering American capitalism and a seemingly selfless soul devoted to helping others live better lives.

A riveting feat of guerilla filmmaking, revealing much about systems of power in China and the formidable tactics of its burgeoning activist culture.

A documentary that busts a few myths about the romance genre and the people who read and write it.

About as open and probing as a documentary gets, this is a revealing look at an unparalleled entertainer’s professional and personal life.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney’s new film reveals that a new type of weapon, cyber warfare, has already been created and deployed, with barely a hint of public awareness.

Director Vitaly Mansky’s cool but empathetic documentary of life in the Hermit Kingdom takes us to the outer limits of what people will believe.

In his graceful and disarming documentary, filmmaker Roger Ross Williams gets inside the head of Owen Suskind, an autistic young man who learned how to communicate by taking his social and language cues from classic Disney cartoons.

One man’s meditation on art, history, culture, and oppression, Francofonia manages to be grandiose and confining at once. It feels vital because one of the story lines the film pursues—and there are many—is the fate of the Louvre Museum’s art collection under the Nazis.