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EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Sam Mendes is to sit in the documentary director's chair for the first time. Mendes is directing a BBC doc telling the story of two members of the British Army's Film & Photographic Unit who accompanied the troops liberating the Bergen-Belsen concentration…

Director Smriti Mundhra's Muslim Matchmaker premieres on Hulu today, a show that might be described as a sibling docuseries to her Netflix hits Indian Matchmaking and Jewish Matchmaking. But that's not all Mundhra has going on, by any means. She directs one of the episodes of the upcoming HBO…

EXCLUSIVE: As NBC prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, it's interesting to recall the show's second official musical guest – singer-songwriter Janis Ian. On October 11, 1975, she riveted the audience with a performance of her smash hit "At 17," a ballad of high school…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning director R.J. Cutler's latest project is taking him to a very remote and very icy environment. He's at work on a documentary about Camp Century, a U.S. military installation built in Greenland at the height of the Cold War. Officially billed at the time as, "Nothing to…

EXCLUSIVE: Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta shows a side to the Brazilian superstar that is rarely seen on camera. Ahead of the Netflix documentary launching, the Rio-born singer-songwriter told Deadline that making the film stirred up strong feelings. "It was truly a whirlwind of emotions…

Louis Theroux is returning to the West Bank for his latest documentary. In a BBC show titled Louis Theroux: The Settlers, the documentarian will travel to the disputed territory 15 years on from his doc The Ultra-Zionists. There, he will meet some of the large and growing ultra-nationalist…

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Burns’ latest American history series is headed for the London TV Screenings. PBS Distribution has taken global distribution rights and is bringing The American Revolution to the event, which is held in the UK capital at the end of the month. Veteran filmmaker Burns directed…

The systematic abuse of Indigenous children at Indian Residential Schools barely received attention in North America despite going on for generations. That has finally changed in the past year in large part through the profound impact of Sugarcane, the Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Julian…

Netflix has canceled the release of a six-part docuseries about Prince amid a deal with the late musician’s estate. In a statement shared by Netflix and the Prince Estate, they announced a new documentary in development with exclusive content from the 7x Grammy winner’s archive, which forces the…

Netflix is in talks for the Geeta Gandbhir directed documentary The Perfect Neighbor which won the Documentary Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Perfect Neighbor made its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition section. The film follows a minor…

A new documentary planned for Hulu will take a closer look at the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021. Directed and produced by Rachel Mason, Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna promises to “take viewers inside that tragic day and its aftermath, told…

Over the course of his very long career, director Frederick Wiseman has always worked in nonfiction, in the realm of the real, yet his films may best be described as novelistic. Embedding himself in hospitals, schools, theater and dance groups, neighborhoods, and towns across the U.S. and…