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In The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee chronicled how our understanding of cancer has evolved .Starting Monday, Ken Burns' three-part documentary will air on PBS.

"The Rejected" was one of the first documentaries to openly address sexual orientation, and was considered progressive at the time.

A new PBS documentary series uses DNA to trace the roots of Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker and other prominent African Americans all the way from slave plantations to the shores of Africa. Ed Gordon talks with the host and producer of the series, renowned Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

With a proliferation of streaming services to distribute their work, and a boom at the box office, budgets and opportunities are rising for documentary filmmakers.

China's most far-reaching social experiment — a multi-decade attempt at population control — is the subject of the documentary One Child Nation.

NBC's Ann Curry got special access to Iran nuclear negotiations. Steve Inskeep talks to Curry, and producer Hooman Majd, about their documentary #TwitterDiplomacy: The Making of a Nuclear Deal.

Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's sports correspondent Tom Goldman about ESPN pulling out of a documentary about concussions in professional football, the Little League World Series and Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with director Matt Tyrnauer about his documentary Where's My Roy Cohn?.

Sanibel Island’s Store traces the journey of a family, a small business, and an island determined to rebuild and thrive after Hurricane Ian in 2022.

Over the last two weeks, Talk of the Nation has featured Oscar-nominated filmmakers from the "Best Documentary Feature" category. To wrap up the series, NPR arts critic Bob Mondello discusses how the Oscar business works and shares his favorites from this year's nominees.