documentary

60 years ago, Berry Gordy formed a new music label after leaving his job at the Ford Motoring Company in Detroit. Playing a key role in integrating African-Americans into the US mainstream music scene, Motown went onto launch the careers…

The winner of this year's SXSW Documentary Feature Competition's Grand Jury and Audience Awards, For Sama follows filmmaker Waad al-Kateab's life as she documents the uprising in Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War. During her time in the…

Filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's stellar documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a resonate portrait of an intelligent and defiant woman whose prized creativity in literature had captured the imagination of the public's…

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).