Documentary

Live stage performance of Lou Reed's 1973 album, recorded at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York over five nights in 2007. When it was first released, 'Berlin', Reed's third solo outing, received a critical mauling, especially since it followed his...

This semi-documentary highlights the determination and vanity of the professional bodybuilder. As well as bringing 'Arnie' Schwarznegger to the attention of the world, the film also features Lou Ferrigno who went on to portray The Incredible Hulk in the...

Award-winning documentary charting the events within a small single-class village primary school in the Auvergne region of France over the course of one academic year. A dozen children aged 4-10 are brought together each day in a rural classroom and...

Intimate and inventive autobiographical portrait of acclaimed experimental French director Agnes Varda. A member of the French New Wave and married to fellow director Jacques Demy, Varda pioneered the 'cine-writing' style of filmmaking, carefully...

Broadcaster Alistair Cooke narrates this World War Two documentary detailing the defence of Britain over the course of a year from 10th May 1940 to 10th May 1941. Based on original and dramatic film taken from both British and German sources, the film...

Faux documentary following a year in the life of award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix. Beginning in autumn 2008, the film focuses on Phoenix's decision to move away from the acting world into music, more specifically hip hop, and follows the star's...

French documentary from director Thomas Balmes depicting the early lives of four young babies from around the world. The children were followed on film for the first year of their lives, with all footage shot in their respective countries of origin:...

The legendary dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009, transformed the language of dance with her extraordinary and revolutionary body of work. This mesmerising film by the acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, The Buena Vista...

Documentary from French film-maker Agnès Varda examining the lives of those who live off the grid in France. Gleaning is the act of gathering the leftovers from a harvest after the main, profitable crop has been taken away by the farmer. As well as...

Stanley Tucci narrates this documentary account of counter-culture pioneer Ken Kesey's 1960s trip across America in a psychedelically painted school bus. In 1964 Kesey, the author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and an advocate for the use of LSD...

Francis Ford Coppola began to film 'Apocalypse Now' in February 1976. After 238 days in the jungle, filming was complete and millions of dollars had been spent (Marlon Brando was on set for three weeks at a million dollars a week). Actors had been...

Documentary looking into the stranger-than-fiction life of Joyce McKinney, an American beauty queen with an exceptionally high IQ who, over the course of four decades, has generated a multitude of bizarre and sensational tabloid headlines. In 1977,...

Docu-drama about a woman whose body was not discovered until three years after her death. Joyce Vincent died in 2003 in her North London bedsit. In 2006 her remains were found lying on her sofa, surrounded by wrapped up Christmas gifts and with the TV...

Documentary following the formidable efforts of a volunteer football coach in a deprived area of Memphis, Tennessee to reverse the fortunes of a team of underdogs. The film follows coach Bill Courtney as he takes on the inner-city African-American youths...

Lauren Greenfield directs this documentary following timeshare billionaire couple David and Jackie Siegel as construction begins on their new home, a lavish mansion inspired by the palace of Versailles. Filmed over a two-year period, the documentary sees...