The New York Times Movies

Churchill Downs, the cathedral of horse racing, turned into a horse graveyard at last year's Kentucky Derby; exploring the sport beneath the pageantry...

As America's largest retirement community continues to expand, cracks, both literal and metaphysical, are suddenly opening beneath the senior utopia.

“A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues of social eq...

Perhaps a fitting start to 2020, Australia rang in the New Year with much of the country engulfed in flames. A few people decided to confront the bla...

The story of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, a millennial couple who stole over $3 billion in cryptocurrency before being caught by the Departme...

To beg for leniency, defense attorneys are producing entire documentaries for an audience of one: the judge.

Verbatim: The Ferguson Case dramatizes and juxtaposes the grand jury transcripts of two key witnesses in the shooting of the unarmed black teenager Mi...

What does it mean to adopted and brought up far away from your country of birth? In “Given Away,” this week’s moving new Op-Doc by directors Glenn and...

Nora Johnson, long divorced, wasn't looking for love when she met George, a widowed 83-year-old. It just happened.

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single m...

This investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern black American family is seen through the eyes of a single moth...

A New York Times investigation examines what happened at 3003 Springfield Drive in Louisville, Kentucky, just after midnight on March 13, 2020 when po...

Rob C., a firefighter in Idaho, undergoes psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in an attempt to address his PTSD.

The last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times. This film shows the entire newspaper production process from hot-metal typesetting to cre...

McDowell County, situated in the coalfields of West Virginia, has experienced a great boom-and-bust since 1950. But despite the economic decline and p...

Profiles two elderly Holocaust survivors in Florida who recently formed their own Klezmer band. Reuwen "Ruby" Sosnowicz born in Warsaw Poland is a Hol...

This short documentary celebrates the late conceptual artist Chris Burden’s landmark work “Shoot,” in which a friend shot him in the arm. [Overview Co...

A self-described liberal from cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Zaki wanted to get behind the politics of Israel’s controversial settlements in the occupied terr...

Chronicles the rise of Collab Crib, one of the first mainstream Black creator mansion, exclusively documenting their whirlwind drive to achieve social...

While battling Alzheimer’s disease, Deenie Hartzog-Mislock’s grandmother invents a wild story and the family learns to love an imaginary man named Nic...