Married filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi specialize in stories about human tenacity against the forces of nature, putting them out at the indefatigable pace of about a film a year — ...

When the crew aboard the S.A. Agulhas II set out in early 2022 to search for the Endurance shipwreck, it seemed nearly impossible. “It’s the holy grail,” Nico Vincent, the sub-sea manager on the ...

As the true crime industry has exploded over the last decade, there’s a few things you can count on in almost every cold case docuseries. At some point, you’ll see B-roll of small-town America, with a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and BAFTA-nominated director Natalie Hewit are boarding the National Geographic documentary Endurance (working title), the incredible story of ...

Some artists are too interesting to sell out, as British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton discovered for himself when his formulaic Zodiac killer doc went off the rails.

“I have marvelled often at the thin line that divides success from failure,” pipes up Shackleton’s AI-generated voice, reading from his journal South, at one point in this National Geographic ...

A black and white film negative of Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic winter flashlight scene in the Weddell Sea, showing Endurance stuck fast. Credit: Library of Congress There are few stories ...