Documentary
Discover something new to watch, or catch up on the news and gossip, from the best in the documentaries genre.

An Amazing, Chilling, Behind-the-Scenes Look at Amy Winehouse Recording "Back to Black"
Those pipes.
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This Awesome New Documentary Is Tackling Sexism in the Tech Industry Head-On
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap = required viewing.
By Lane Florsheim Published
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"Change Was Way Overdue": How Mary J. Blige Found Her New Sound—and Amy Winehouse—in London
Her new documentary The London Sessions premieres at Tribeca.
By Jen Ortiz Published
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Walt Disney's Grandniece Made a Harrowing Documentary About Women in the Arab Spring
Here, she tells us all about it.
By Lane Florsheim Published
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5 Mind-Blowing Scientology Facts from Controversial New Documentary 'Going Clear'
Features This is crazy.
By Samantha Leal Published
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A Documentary About Delhi's Brutal Bus Rape Gets Banned in India, BBC Releases It Anyway
The film is causing a global uproar.
By Jennifer Chowdhury Published
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Netflix Buys a Rashida Jones-Produced Doc About Women Being Take Advantage of by the Amateur Porn Industry
Putting that on the must-watch list.
By Chelsea Peng Published
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"I Was the Luckiest Unlucky Person": Comedian Tig Notaro on How Cancer Revived Her Sense of Humor
At Sundance for the premiere of her new documentary, the standup sits down for a chat with Marie Claire.
By jenna.marotta Marotta Published
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Sundance Report: New Premiere 'The Hunting Ground' Sheds Further Light on Campus Rape
Activists Annie Clark and Andrea Pino are making waves.
By Kayla Webley Adler Published
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Documentary Exposes The Lies Women Are Fed At Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Women are misled through vague advertising, false warnings about the health risks of abortion, and more.
By Diana Pearl Published
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What it's Like to Film the World's Best Female Surfer
Filmmaker Ava Warbrick talks to Marie Claire about capturing surf champion Stephanie Gilmore's most intimate moments—and her rise back to the top after a terrifying attack—in the documentary Stephanie in the Water, out this week on iTunes and Google Play. Read our August feature on Gilmore here.
By Ann Binlot Published
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Stephanie Gilmore's Violent Attack Forced Her to Start Over
World-class-surfer Stephanie Gilmore thought nothing could bring her down—until a violent attack ended her string of successes. Now her story is being told in a new documentary, Stephanie in the Water, which chronicles her comeback rise to the top of the waves.
By Ann Binlot Published
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Fed Up Director Stephanie Soechtig: 'The Film Unraveled a Bit Like a Murder Mystery'
The Sundance hit documentary is poised to be the Inconvenient Truth of the obesity epidemic.
By Kayla Webley Adler Published
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See How This Woman is Stopping Malaria One Bracelet at a Time
Marie Claire sat down with Kristen Kenney, star of "Tanzania: A Journey Within" and founder of Malaika For Life, to discuss her time in Tanzania, her inspiration for the documentary and what she's doing to fight malaria.
By Aubrey Nagle Published
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Behind the Documentary: Pussy Riot and their Punk Prayer
We spoke with Maxim Pozdorovkin, the director of the Oscar short listed documentary, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer about the nation-dividing protest that landed its members in prison and why Pussy Riots' actions are significant to women everywhere.
By Liana Satenstein Published
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All 5 Parts of the Beyoncé Documentary are Here, Hooray! (VIDEOS)
Trying to breathe. Not succeeding.
By Hallie Gould Published
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What's On: Amanda Seyfried
The actress and Clé de Peau Beauté face on her barefoot fantasy, documentary-film habit, and magical dinner parties.
By Marie Claire Published
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Carine Roitfeld on Her New Documentary Mademoiselle C
The iconic Carine Roitfeld sat down with us to discuss her new movie, Mademoiselle C and what it's like to choose your own career.
By Liana Satenstein Published
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Love, Loss & the Oscars
After years of trying, Daniela Petrova and her husband, acclaimed journalist Sebastian Junger, finally conceived a baby, just after his documentary won an Oscar nod. But Hollywood was no match for the drama that awaited them.
By Daniela Petrova Published
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Set Your DVRs: Inside Tom Ford's Designing Mind
A new documentary takes us on a fascinating journey into the celebrated designer-slash-director's creative process.
By Elana Fishman Published
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"Love Crimes of Kabul"
A new HBO documentary goes inside Afghanistan's Badam Bagh prison to profile women serving time for "moral crimes"
By Abby Gardner Published
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Do Nearly Half of Us Suffer Female Sexual Dysfunction?
The documentary "Orgasm Inc." will get you riled up about the people trying to cash in on an "epidemic" that isn't.
By Maura Kelly Published
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Must-See Film: Redlight
If you happen to live in New York City, skip The Bachelorette tonight and go see something real: a documentary about young girls who are being sold into sexual slavery in Southeast Asia. We're talking girls as young as five years old.
By Abigail Pesta Published
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My Boyfriend, His Ex, and Their Oscar
After my boyfriend accepted his Oscar for Best Documentary, my dad called to tell me to "get rid of that loser."
By Addie Morfoot Published
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Do Men Resent Their More Successful Girlfriends?
A provocative new documentary tackles the thorniest of romantic issues: Can a man truly accept his more successful partner? MarieClaire.com takes a look.
By Marie Claire Published

