A quick guide to the nominated films and why you should watch them.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘Becoming Katharine Graham’ Review: A Newspaper Leader, in Her Voice
The sibling filmmakers George and Teddy Kunhardt use a straightforward approach in this documentary about the Washington Post publisher, letting a pioneer shine.
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2025 New York International Children’s Film Festival
Girls prevailing against the odds is one theme that has surfaced among the 13 features and 79 short films in this year’s festival in New York.
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‘We Beat the Dream Team’ Puts a Twist on the Sports Movie Formula
This film tells the story of the college players who defeated the 1992 U.S. men’s basketball team, filled with N.B.A. All-Stars, during a scrimmage before the Olympics.
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‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review: Graphic Doom
In this straightforward documentary, the acclaimed cartoonist reflects on his Holocaust memoir, “Maus,” and other masterworks of subversion.
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“No Other Land” Is the Oscar-Nominated Film That No Studio Will Touch
“No Other Land,” about the destruction of a village in the occupied West Bank, is one of the year’s most acclaimed films. Still, U.S. studios are unwilling to distribute it.
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A New Documentary Uncovers One of Pop’s Tragic Mysteries: Q Lazzarus
Her haunting song “Goodbye Horses” had a star turn in “The Silence of the Lambs,” but the enigmatic artist behind it seemingly vanished for decades after.
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With ‘We Beat the Dream Team,’ Grant Hill Can Finally Gloat
Hill and the film’s director talked about the time a team of college basketball players beat Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson — and the effort to bury it.
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Watching ‘Shoah’ in Berlin, 80 Years After Auschwitz
A commemorative screening of the monumental documentary came as some artists are questioning whether Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture stifles free speech.
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‘The Strike’: When Collective Action Leads to Prison Reform
The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons.
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‘Notes on Displacement’ Review: Seeking a Fresh Start in Europe
The artist and director Khaled Jarrar accompanies a group of people from Syria on their way to Germany in this documentary.
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‘The 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Stories, Big Ideas
The themes run from sweet to harrowing in this year’s selections.