documentary

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Cinema 

For presenter Christine Chubbuck, live TV was her job and the perfect medium to broadcast her death. This uncomfortable documentary examines the implications

Features

Jimmy Saville, transgender children, drugs, and Scientology: Louis Theroux documentaries cover a great range of subjects. Here are five great scenes that showcase his unique brilliance

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Cinema 

It's not exactly the most incisive of Louis Theroux documentaries, but My Scientology Movie is definitely one of the funniest

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Terrance Malick (Tree of Life) screened this documentary at the Venice Film Festival, and continues to divide opinion

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Cinema 

Hustler Rudy Kurniawan takes the Californian wine world for a ride in this diverting documentary

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In the next film by Ron Howard – new documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – movie footage from behind the scenes shows a different side to the fab four

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Documentary film Jim: The James Foley Story, directed by Foley's childhood friend, is utterly heartbreaking

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Netflix 

The best new series and films coming to Netflix. September 2016 brings hard-hitting documentary and another series of Narcos

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Cinema 

Keep your eye on young director Mohamed Jabaly: Ambulance, his debut film, is about as impressive as documentaries get

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Cinema 

With the almost unbelievable Tickled documentary, 2016 might have found it's weirdest true story...

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Cinema 

From director Zhao Liang, Behemoth delivers a disturbing, earth-shattering take on a country's quest for industrial gains

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Cinema 

Almost Holy follows a vigilante cleaning up Ukraine in his own way

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Cinema 

Sylvia Plath is the obvious comparison, but for Eva Hesse art provided a successful emotional outlet

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Cinema 

In this new documentary about IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, quotes from his diaries are the highlights

Features

In strange times we turn to political documentaries. 2016's problems only start with Brexit...

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Cinema 

In a new documentary, Tony Blair is called to account for war crimes by George Galloway

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Cinema 

Who is JT LeRoy? Doc asks more questions than it answers

Features

Here's to summer 2016: films to watch even when it's sunny

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Talks 

Gripped by Making a Murderer? Lawyers Dean Strang and Jerry Buting come to London to talk all things Steven Avery — and tickets are selling fast

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Cinema 

An intimate look at the events following 2011's London Riots and the death of Mark Duggan

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Cinema 

Director Matthew Miele takes an affectionate look at Tiffany & Co. in this new documentary

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Cinema 

The return of Michael Moore: new documentary is all about what the USA can learn from Europe

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2016 Palme D'Or winner Ken Loach is the subject of Louise Osmond's new documetary

Essential

Cinema 

Gianfranco Rosi’s migrant crisis documentary Fire at Sea won the Golden Bear at the 2016 Berlinale

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Cinema 

Troublemakers tells the story of a group of radical '60s artists

Interview

We talk to the brother of Robert Mapplethorpe – controversial homoerotic photographer, Patti Smith's lover and Andy Warhol's biggest rival – about compelling new documentary Look at the Pictures

Interview

Things to do 

Nostalgia For the Light director Patricio Guzmán follows up his film with an equally lyrical documentary, The Pearl Button

In the Know

Cinema 

New documentary Hitchcock / Truffaut pays tribute to two masters of cinema and the directors they influenced

Interview

We talked to director Álvaro Longoria about his experiences in North Korea and what the future holds for the country

In the Know

Cinema 

Homme Less tells the extraordinary story of a homeless fashion photographer

Interview

Welcome to Leith: documentary film has rarely been so disturbing. We talk to the directors about their experience in the North Dakota town

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Cinema 

Grant Gee's new film with Orhan Pamuk is a hypnotic rendering of Istanbul, past and present.