Animation is an integral component of three new documentaries: Beth Harrington’s The Winding Stream, Penny Lane’s NUTS! and Roger Ross Williams’ Life, Animated. Filmmaker recently chatted with ...

The shortest documentary on our list of 11 best science documentaries on YouTube, but well worth watching. The goal of the documentary is to show where our place in the universe is.

The fostering of closer links between documentary and animation has long been a priority for DOK Leipzig, which was the first festival to feature a dedicated sidebar for animadocs in 1997. A new ...

An animated documentary, by its very nature, makes self-evident its own mode of production. More openly than live-action documentaries (though not without exception), documentaries that make use ...

Common uses include reenactments (with animation you can reenact anything, and there’s no pretending that it’s the real thing) and illustrative graphics (a must for films about abstruse science).

A significant drop in documentary box office receipts in recent years has forced filmmakers to rethink their approach. Talking heads and voiceovers are increasingly being replaced with not only re ...

And why settle for documentaries on dinosaurs when networks can use CGI to create sci-fi critters that are more entertaining and not burdened by the need for scientific accuracy?

Documentary filmmakers are finding novel ways to integrate animation into their works as a way of telling their stories and making them more accessible to audiences.