All Documentaries articles – Page 30
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Reviews'Ask The Sexpert': Hot Docs Review
At 93, the straight-talking Dr Mahinder Watsa tackes sexual ignorance in his daily Mumbai Mirror column
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Reviews'Pecking Order': Hot Docs Review
New Zealand’s competitive chicken breeders fear fowl play in this highly-entertaining Hot Docs title
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Reviews'Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story' - Hot Docs Review
The tragic story of the late footballer Jusin Fashanu and his sibling John recalls a homophobic, racist Britain of the 1980s
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Reviews'Bobbi Jene': Tribeca Review
Elvira Lind’s remarkable documentary follows two years in the life of provocative dancer Bobbi Jene Smith
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Reviews'Elián’: Hot Docs Review
The five year-old boy found floating in the Florida Straits in 1999 tells his side of the story
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Reviews'Bee Nation': Hot Docs Review
Crowd-pleaser set on Canada’s First Nation reserves opens Toronto’s Hot Docs festival
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Reviews'Frank Serpico': Tribeca Review
Dir/scr: Antonino D’Ambrosio. US. 2017. 96mins In 1971, disillusioned New York City cop Frank Serpico took on the systemic corruption he saw in the force and beyond; an action which then saw him labelled as a hero by some, and a traitor by most. With unprecedented access ...
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Reviews'When God Sleeps': Tribeca Review
Up close and personal with Shahin Najafi, the German-based ‘Salman Rushdie of rap’
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ReviewsWhitney 'Can I Be Me': Tribeca Review
It may be unauthorised, but Nick Broomfield’s story of a beautiful diva’s descent into drugs is certainly respectful
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Reviews'The Last Animals': Tribeca Review
A former war photographer tracks the shameful ivory trade in a galvanising documentary which is a potent mix of film and message
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Reviews'House Of Z': Tribeca Review
There’s no shortage of fashion drama to feed this documentary about couture’s former enfant terrible Zac Posen
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ReviewsA Gray State: Tribeca Review
A highly-topical and resonant trip down the alt-right rabbit hole, produced by Werner Herzog
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Reviews'The Reagan Show': Tribeca Review
Dirs. Pacho Velez & Sierra Pettengill. US. 2017. 74 mins.There’s an otherworldliness to the video footage of Ronald Reagan’s presidency that makes The Reagan Show feel like an elaborately-constructed parable for the Trump era. Did this really happen? Was his presidency, in truth, a not-particularly elaborate, ...
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Reviews'A Suitable Girl': Tribeca Review
Dirs: Sarita Khurana, Smriti Mundhra. USA-India. 2017. 97 mins.The subject of Indian arranged marriages is a deceptively tricky one to dissect in a documentary, existing as it does at the point where Western cultural beliefs and Eastern traditions meet head to head. And while this triptych ...
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Reviews'The Death And Life Of Marsha P. Johnson': Review
A sobering documentary looks at how transgender people have been treated as second-class citizens, even in the LGBT movement
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Reviews'Shadowman': Tribeca Review
A documentary about the 1980s New york graffiti artist Richard Hambleton is intense and involving
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Reviews'Born In China': Review
Disneynature’s latest documentary tells a year in the life of China’s diverse wildlife
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Reviews'Walk With Me': Review
Benedict Cumberbatch narrates this unusual documentary about a spiritual retreat in France under the guidance of renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
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Reviews'The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin': Review
A nostalgia-tinged look at the writer of the beloved Tales of the City series
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Reviews'Bill Nye: Science Guy': SXSW Review
Bill Nye takes on climate change deniers and creationists in this affectionate documentary