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Beyoncé Knowles’ autobiographical documentary that premiered last Saturday was the largest audience for an HBO doc since Nielsen amended its method of measuring ratings in 2004, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is making a documentary on Bill Clinton for HBO. HBO announced Monday that Scorsese is producing and directing the film, with Clinton's cooperation. The network did not announce an anticipated air date for the show on the nation's 42nd president, who was in office from 1993 to 2001.

Friendly in every sense of the word, HBO’s documentary “41” bills itself as an intimate look back at the life of George Herbert Walker Bush, who, in case you’ve spaced it, was U.S. president from 1989 to 1993. The film was produced by former United Artists CEO Jerry Weintraub (a Bush family friend) and directed by Jeffrey Roth with Bush’s full cooperation.

History channel enlists reality producer Mark Burnett for 'The Bible,' a 10-hour docudrama

"I'd rather be doing this than (be) in some stuffy ol' political office, I'd rather be out here bein' free," Sarah Palin exclaims in a teaser for the 8-part docu-series on TLC.

With the Chilean miners rescued, at least two TV networks, Discovery Channel and PBS, are planning documentaries about the dramatic rescue mission at the end of the month.

A documentary producer who interrupted a director's Oscar acceptance speech Sunday night says she was the one who was "big-footed" on stage. Elinor Burkett, appearing Tuesday on HLN's "The Joy Behar Show," said Roger Ross Williams' charge that she ambushed him is wrong.

Really? Is this what they need right now? One of the producers on Farrah Fawcett's cancer documentary, Farrah's Story, is suing the actress, Ryan O'Neal, and good friend Alana Stewart -- claiming that all three physically threatened and "otherwise blocked him from any role in the documentary" -- a project which he says he worked on for the past two years.