Documentary
Discover something new to watch, or catch up on the news and gossip, from the best in the documentaries genre.
Documentary
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Inside Michelle Obama and Meryl Streep's Epic Trip to Liberia and Morocco
A chat with CNN's Isha Sesay about the documentary that's going to make you cry.
By Jen Ortiz Published
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Everything You Need to Know About the Amanda Knox Case
Refresh your memory before the Netflix documentary is available to stream.
By Emma Dibdin Published
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An Exclusive First Look at 'Trapped,' the New Abortion Documentary You *Need* to See
Inside what's really at stake in the battle for reproductive rights.
By Kayla Webley Adler Published
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Katie Couric Is on a Mission to Expose America's "Seeming Obsession with Guns"
Following the debut of her new documentary Under the Gun, Couric talks gun violence, the NRA, and change.
By Kate Storey Published
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Michelle Rodriguez Says She Felt "Jealous" That Paul Walker Died Before She Did
The star's sudden death led to some serious soul-searching.
By Megan Friedman Published
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Justin Bieber Compares Himself to Amy Winehouse
"This life can rip you apart."
By Mehera Bonner Published
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5 Real Women on What "Pretty" Looks Like in Israel
"Some people don't really accept that I have black skin and that I'm going to represent Israel."
By Samantha Leal Published
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Russell Brand Keeps Insulting Katy Perry/Making Everyone Feel Awkward
Clearly, Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" was secretly written about their marriage.
By Mehera Bonner Published
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The Women's List: 15 Game-Changers You Need to Know Now
Photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders highlights their incredible stories in a documentary for PBS.
By Kayla Webley Adler Published
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Meet the First Female Surfer in Bangladesh, 18-Year-Old Game-Changer Nasima Akter
They tried to force her into prostitution. Instead, she hit the waves.
By Feifei Sun Published
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Director Asif Kapadia Opens Up About His Heartbreaking New Amy Winehouse Documentary
Exclusive insight into one of the summer's most talked-about films.
By Kaitlin Menza Published
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An Amazing, Chilling, Behind-the-Scenes Look at Amy Winehouse Recording "Back to Black"
Those pipes.
By Simedar Jackson Published
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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'
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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"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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Jennifer Lopez Makes a Heart-Rending Confession About Her Divorce
"That hope, that dream, that fairytale..."
By Lauren Valenti 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