While we often disregard the latest teen boyband obsessions as a modern and commercial scourge, director Jessica Leski’s comprehensive and touching study of the phenomenon compels the viewer to rethink.
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While we often disregard the latest teen boyband obsessions as a modern and commercial scourge, director Jessica Leski’s comprehensive and touching study of the phenomenon compels the viewer to rethink.
Not long ago, Jay Wilde was a walking talking paradox: a vegetarian cattle-farmer. While its true that most people resent the job they do, Jay’s was to deliver his friends to slaughter, over and over again.
Undergoing phenomenal change and achieving heights never before seen in human history, today’s construction sector is a lot more exciting than most people think. We met with the B1M’s founder, Fred Mills.
Director Armin Thalhammer and his crew risked their lives to make “Cerro Rico”, a haunting dive into the depths of the famed Bolivian silver mine, estimated to have cost the lives of up to 8 million men to date.
“It’s bigger than the World Cup, it’s bigger than the Champions League… it’s the Epinetzo Africa Cup of Nations”. With the backing and support of one of France’s most successful rappers, Niska, and countless footballing superstars such as Didier Drogba, Karim Benzema, Paul Pogba, Riyad Mahrez and Benjamin Mendy, the tournament has exploded in popularity on social media and french news channels.
Soufra follows the unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a generational refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon.
CK Goldiing is a writer and filmmaker from Sheffield, UK who got in touch with Documentary Weekly to submit his rivetingly feel-good first short film, ‘61 HUGS’. After helplessly falling for this gem of a film, we set out to speak to the man himself.
Few films following political upheaval successfully convey the conflicting emotions of their leaders as they struggle for empowerment and justice, but Chris Kelly’s Bafta-nominated ‘A Cambodian Spring’ is such a potent mixture of visual and auditive artistry that no viewer can possibly be left unmoved.
“With Diego, I would go to the end of the world. But with Maradona… I wouldn’t take a step”
‘Who is William Onyeabor?’ - New York-based label Luaka Bop tried, and failed, to find this out in 2013 when they released an album of the same name which compiled the work of the mystery 70s and 80s Nigerian synthesizer musician.
It’s likely you couldn’t point out the Helveltica typeface if you were asked to, but walk down any given city street today with someone who can, and you’ll realise just how unbelievably influential it is.
Ted Bundy is not only America’s most notorious serial killer, he’s also one of it’s greatest obsessions. His story is now the subject of a blockbuster Hollywood film and Zac Efron is said to have based his surprisingly accurate character study on this particularly haunting mini-series.
You’ve never met an organic farmer quite as eccentric, entertaining, foul-mouthed or as heavy a drinker as Peter Dunning.
On November 13th 2015, Paris suffered it’s deadliest ever attack. This incredibly poignant and touching 3-part series is an intimate portrayal of 40 survivors’ stories, but also how deeply their lives have been affected by the experience.
This is the calming and affecting study of L’Arche, a community of people with learning disabilities in France, who despite common beliefs have a huge amount of knowledge to impart on the world.
This is a modern classic of the documentary genre and a deserved Oscar winner back in 2013.
Cancel your plans for tomorrow evening, there's a brand new David Attenborough nature doc series landing on Netflix that you're going to want to binge-watch instead.
In 2013, inventor and entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes was at the head of a $10 billion company, two years later she is due to appear in court for fraud.
If you were online in the late 2000s, the chances are you’ve heard of TechnoViking. The thing is, TechnoViking never wanted you to know him…
Munich’s Eisbach was where river surfing was born - meet the surfers who hit the waves every day after work despite being hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean.
