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EXCLUSIVE: Sugarcane has become the latest big documentary deal out of the Sundance Film Festival. Nat Geo has snapped up the doc, an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school which ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. Deadline understands that…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films is returning its Oscar-shortlisted documentary Bobi Wine: The People's President to select cinemas over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. The film directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp will play at IFC Center in New York, the Laemmle…

Bobi Wine, the subject of Bobi Wine: The People's President, said he hopes the National Geographic Documentary Films doc educates international communities who have supported Uganda's dictator Yoweri Museveni. Wine had the support of the Ugandan people to be elected president in 2021, yet Museveni…

The Mission tells the story of John Chau, a missionary who in 2018 attempted to bring Christianity to the indigenous people of remote North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. The Sentinelese killed him for intruding. Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine said they discovered that Chau's story…

Pop star Bobi Wine had it made. Beautiful wife and kids, thriving music career. The Ugandan singer could have stayed in his lane, cruising through Kampala without a care. But as the award-winning documentary Bobi Wine: The People's President shows, he gave up the easy life for something far more…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films has signed a first-look production deal with director Sara Dosa and producer Shane Boris, the team behind NatGeo's Oscar-nominated hit Fire of Love. Related Stories …

Pop star Bobi Wine gave up a comfortable life as an entertainer to take on a nearly impossible task: rescue his country from the clutches of a ruthless dictator. The inspiring story of the singer-activist who ran for the highest office in Uganda is told in the National Geographic documentary Bobi Wine…

Since NASA’s conception just over six decades ago, 600 astronauts have traveled to space, yet only 18 have been Black Americans. Hindered in equal parts by racial discrimination and the lack of educational and economic resources given to the Black community in the space administration’s formative years…

In the National Geographic documentary The Territory, illegal land grabbers in a section of Brazil's Amazon rainforest burn down thousands of acres to clear space for cattle farming, buzzsaw giant trees left and right and build settlements in violation of Brazilian law. The destruction of their forest…

Clouds of gloom have settled over much of the documentary field, brought on by multiple factors: a sluggish acquisition market, cutbacks in the executive ranks at Netflix and Showtime, uncertainty around Hulu’s future, CNN Films taking doc production in house, sharper scrutiny of budgets and content…

EXCLUSIVE: For NASA's pioneering Black astronauts, gravity wasn't the only barrier impeding them from reaching the highest heights. They also faced another implacable force, in the form of racial bias. National Geographic Documentary Films today announced filmmakers Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, who expanded scientific understanding of the universe and helped millions appreciate the wonders of the cosmos, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary feature from National Geographic Documentary Films. The Untitled Carl Sagan Film…