National Geographic, The Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a five-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates around the world.
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National Geographic, The Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a five-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates around the world.
Today’s What Are You Watching, Quarantine Edition comes from Güven in Ismir, Turkey.
Tam is a self-confessed true crime junkie (like so many of us), naming "The Jinx" as her most wtf documentary and "Who Killed Little Gregory?" as one that made her cry. And the last documentary she watched? The addictive Tiger King that pretty much everyone is talking about...
For our fourth episode, Tihana talks us through her latest watch: What Happened Miss Simone?, the most sinister documentary series she’s ever seen: Killer Women with Piers Morgan and Knock Down the House, the inspiring Netflix hit featuring Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
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‘We dance to forget, we sing to forget. To forget the horrors we passed through before we came to Naples’ says Yankuba, an aspiring biochemist from The Gambia, one of the protagonists of Guardian Docs’ latest film Teranga: Life In The Waiting Room.
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A few years ago, after a long day at work, Richard began to consider whether he really needed any of his possessions. Looking around his London flat at the TV he never had time to watch and the playstation he’d never even used, he realised that all he truly cared about was his hot shower.
‘Palestine Underground’ opens to footage of DJ Oddz’ daring ascent of the 8 metre wall standing between him and the venue he’s due to play at.
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.
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.
Late last year, Documentary Weekly was approached by the Southern Documentary Project filmmaker John Rash, who submitted to us a premiere of his first feature film Negro Terror. Now, tragically, his film has taken on far greater importance.
