Documentary

Documentary which charts the history of HandMade Films, founded by George Harrison and Denis O'Brien to finance 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' (1979). Featuring interviews with film-makers and actors involved with the studio, including Terry Gilliam,...

Charlie Sheen narrates, as cast and crew share their personal experiences making the Academy Award winning film, Platoon. Widely considered to be one of the most authentically crafted war films ever made, this non-union, low budget, independent film was...

Documentary following musician PJ Harvey as she accompanies photographer Seamus Murphy around the world and uses the experience as inspiration for a new album, recorded as part of an art project in London's Somerset House.

Stephen Nomura Schible directs this documentary about Japanese musician and film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Starting a career which spans four decades as a techno-pop star, Sakamoto has gone on to establish himself as an Academy Award-winning film...

Sara Driver directs this US documentary which looks at the younger years of renowned New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Born in Brooklyn, Basquiat first gained notoriety as part of a graffiti duo in Manhattan before going on to establish himself as...

US documentary written and directed by Nancy Buirski. In 1944, 24-year-old African American woman Recy Taylor was kidnapped and raped by a group of white men in Abbeville, Alabama. However, despite eyewitness accounts and confessions from some of the...

Marc Francis and Max Pugh co-write and direct this documentary which follows a community of Buddhists based in rural France. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, the film looks at the community's 90-year-old Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhát Hanh, who was...

Documentary about the Nigerian singer Fela Kuti. The documentary features archive footage and interviews with friends, family and colleagues, delving deep into the musician's controversial social and political importance as well as exploring the story...

Japanese documentary about Michelin three-star sushi restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro, located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, and its 85-year-old owner Jiro Ono. While Jiro works endlessly, committed to producing the perfect sushi, his son Yoshikazu prepares to take over...

Michael Rapaport directs this behind-the-scenes documentary profile of the seminal New York hip hop group, that includes live performances, historical footage, and interviews with band members Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.

Swedish documentary director Göran Olsson compiles this feature-length collection of archive footage chronicling the US Black Power movement, originally shot by a group of Swedish television journalists during the 1960s and 70s. Despite its geographical...

Michael Whyte directs this documentary portrait of daily life at a central London convent. The Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Notting Hill Gate is home to a cloistered order of Carmelite nuns whose lives are dedicated to prayer and contemplation...

Documentary telling the story of director Terry Gilliam's unfinished film version of 'Don Quixote'. Featuring extensive on-set footage, the film shows how Gilliam coped (or failed to cope) with the illness of his star Jean Rochefort, unrehearsed extras,...

The Newport Jazz Festival was created in 1954 by Rhode Island socialites Elaine and Louis Lorillard, and it couldn't have come at a better time in history. With a few exceptions, the big band jazz scene had waned in the early 1950s and, in its place,...

QUANT provides an inside look at one of Britain's most renowned cultural figures, Dame Mary Quant, including contributions from Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Edward Enninful, Dave Davies, Charlotte Tilbury, Jasper Conran and Zandra Rhodes. She paved the...