General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said, "War is Hell." But in modern times, as one of the Marines who fought in the ...

In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to topple dictator Saddam Hussein. During the subsequent eight years, the U.S. spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives fighting an ...

The documentary "Love+War" follows photojournalist Lynsey Addario as she captures war across the world. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Addario about the balance between her work and life.

Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into ...

That's one reason Iraq may go down as the documentary war. Quietly but steadily, a body of inexpensive, do-it-yourself documentaries has begun to provide long-term perspectives of what it's like to be ...

Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than The Deer Hunter or Coming Home, a new pack of political films that defy the clichés of the post-9/11 Iraq ...

Suicide is a tragic epidemic among US military veterans, but a new documentary charts how psychedelic drugs offer a glimmer ...