Documentaries

The late chef’s voice has been digitally reconstructed in an intimate new doco, raising questions of filmmaking ethics.

Find where to stream these compelling factual features, as they’re no longer available on Stan or Netflix.

Produced by Cate Blanchett and directed by Eva Orner, expect this searing feature to arrive on Prime Video soon

The live-streamed, interactive event will honour the screen career of living legend David Gulpilil.

P!nk fans will soon get “a glimpse behind the curtain of the circus that she calls life”.

Fresh from its premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival, this portrait of an acting legend is hitting cinemas soon.

Love ’em or hate ’em, Port Adelaide Football Club is the subject of this incisive film from Nicole Miller.

Sigrid Thornton narrates the distinctly Aussie documentary, which critics have called ‘vital’.

The New York Times TV film has brought new attention to the #FreeBritney movement, so how can Aussies join in?

The story of the Page brothers’ incendiary dance theatre is catching fire across screens; here’s what reviewers are saying.

HBO’s two-part docuseries on the career of Tiger Woods sounds totally unmissable for golf fans.

Since 1964, we’ve grown up alongside Apted’s class of seven-year-olds as their lives play out in different directions.

The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records; here’s their story, with never-before-seen footage to boot.

The four-part investigation is one of a few shows covering the sex cult’s disturbing rise and fall.

Kriv Stenders’ new documentary chronicles the legendary marriage of two Aussie icons.

This documentary series has everything: revenge, drugs, greed…and Ronald McDonald.

PIFF and streaming platform REVonDemand have put together a short but sweet library of documentary and narrative features.

The stranger-than-fiction docuseries has inspired a lot of deranged fan-casting—get onto it, Hollywood!

Watch excellent art documentaries for free this weekend.

In the educational documentary Living Universe, the narrator – beloved Australian scientist and radio personality Dr Karl Kruszelinicki – explains that the Kepler Telescope has beamed back images of Earth-sized ‘exoplanets’ in the so-called ‘Goldie Locks Zone’ region of the Milky Way. The Kepler mission confirms that almost every star has at least one planet, and that […]

Fact isn’t just stranger than fiction, as the old adage goes. It’s often more compelling, fascinating, enlightening and moving as well.