On the veracity of documentary filmmaking.

Anand Patwardhan spent decades tracking the rise of Hindu nationalism. And now, under an increasingly repressive government, he holds his screenings in secret.

One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.

A profile of the documentary filmmaker.

The documentary filmmakers from Longbow Productions said they wanted to tell the story of the Bundy Family and their standoff with the government. Their cameras were real, but the people behind them were undercover FBI agents.

A profile of the filmmaker Errol Morris as he prepared to release The Thin Blue Line after a decade of limited distribution, semi-poverty, and a side career as a private detective.

“Some of the best lines — and I’ve been lucky to hear really nutso lines over the years — are not in response to any kind of question. It’s in response to, ‘I don’t know.’”

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s thrilling, scary, inept performance on German television.

On Sebastian Junger’s War and the documentary Restrepo by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya yesterday.

Why our entire understanding of copyright is due for an overhaul.