"Despite having only 14 cinemas in a country of 170 million people, Nigeria’s film industry, dubbed “Nollywood,” churns out as many as 50 films a week, sometimes for as little as $10,000 a piece." Al ...

Journey of the Beats, a documentary series that follows the journey of Nigerian and black music through the years. The docu-series revisits the storied history of the current generation of Nigerian ...

“Wizkid: Long Live Lagos” distinguishes itself from the endless parade of music documentaries that fill film fest programs in its very first moments. What other recent doc has started with the son of ...

Nigerian documentary filmmaker, Joel Kachi Benson, won the 2025 Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary for his film Madu at the 46th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, held on ...

These are the 10 most-streamed new FRONTLINE documentaries of 2025 — and they're all streaming for free at pbs.org/frontline, on YouTube and in the PBS App.

Documentaries are an undeniably important part of our cultural landscape, educating the general public about society’s most important issues, illuminating the lives of remarkable people, and ...