Exploring history, the animal kingdom, and impossible achievements, the greatest documentaries ever made transport viewers to new places.

From "Hoop Dreams" to "Grey Gardens," here are the best documentaries on Max. Max offers an extraordinary selection of movies, and its documentary library alone has enough gems for hours of ...

Of the 1975 documentary film by the Maysles Brothers that inspired the musical Grey Gardens, actress Rachel York says, “It is important for the audience to know that this was the purest form of ...

Near the start of Albert and David Maysles’s classic documentary “ Grey Gardens,” from 1975 (which opens March 6th at Film Forum, in a new restoration), comes the exclamation, “It’s the ...

So after Barrymore fought her way into that role for HBO’s “Grey Gardens,” which (1) premieres Saturday and (2) relates both the era covered by the documentary and the women’s younger ...

For 50 years, Grey Gardens has captivated audiences with its eccentric charm even as it has inspired debates about the ethics of documentary filmmaking.

From films by Errol Morris to Orson Welles, Laura Poitras to Les Blank, the Maysles to Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog, here are the best documentaries ever made.

Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu. Why “Grey Gardens,” one of the best-known and most-parodied documentaries from the “direct cinema” pioneers Albert and David Maysles?

So after Barrymore fought her way into that role for HBO’s “Grey Gardens,” which (1) premieres Saturday and (2) relates both the era covered by the documentary and the women’s younger ...