documentary

Jean Luc Godard once said “Film is truth, 24 frames per second.” Now, I don’t know what that means, but I do know it's wrong. Free Solo cannot be truth, because it's made of film, and truth is made of emotions or something. I also don’t…

In 1971, the late Aretha Franklin recorded a special gospel album before a live audience in a Los Angeles church. The result, 'Amazing Grace', became one of the biggest albums of her career. However, these two recording sessions were…

In 2017, a music festival in the Bahamas made headlines for ripping off its customers. Organised by entrepreneur and Fyre Media founder Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival promised gourmet meals, luxury tents and beachside villas. Instead,…

Some of them eat out of tins. Probably because they are poor.

The Blair Witch Project. Need we say more?

Eugene Jarecki's documentary wrestles with Elvis Presley's legacy in Trump's America, but it doesn't come to any compelling conclusions

Frightfest, the UK’s premier horror film festival, is no stranger to showing self-referential horror films. This year however, it became meta itself with a screening of Cult of Terror (Culto al Terror).

There is a famous quote which claims that if you remember the 1960s you probably weren't there. It would seem the same could be said of Studio 54, the infamous New York nightclub at the heart of a new documentary bearing the same name.…

The Open City Documentary Festival, now in its eighth year, celebrates creative documentary and non-fiction films

Jonathan Hacker's documentary offers a horrifying, humanising inside look at Al Qaeda using footage shot by extremists and Saudi security forces