Across movies and TV series, the best documentaries of 2025 are a disparate bunch bound by shared value and gleaming purpose.

My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay was named Best First Documentary Feature, and ties occurred in both the Best Historical Documentary and Best Music Documentary categories.

Over the years, filmmakers have worked harder than ever to create some of the best nature documentaries showing the world how important the planet's preservation really is. As the fight for humans to ...