UPDATE:
Scroll down to read more on our four nominations for Best Free Documentary of the Year 2019.
You can read our original coverage of each film and watch the films for yourself at the “Watch Now” button below each title.
Red Chef Revival is an intimate food and travel show exploring modern Indigenous cuisine through the eyes of three chefs; New York Times featured, Cezin Nottaway, Top Chef finalist, Rich Francis and Chopped finalist Shane Chartrand. Using food as their access point, these chefs discover a new path to reconciliation. Red Chef Revival features ingredients you won't find in the cookbooks like bison heart, beaver tail, moose nose, seal and cougar. More than a cooking show, this is a people's story on a plate.
Free to watch
When filmmaker CK Goldiing sets himself the challenge of hugging 61 people, what starts as a freakish social experiment transforms into a powerful, uplifiting ode to the people of Sheffield. Time and time again CK is blown away by the uncomplicated and selfless character of the strangers he accosts, culminating in a truly moving pen-ultimate scene that is sure to bring out a few tears.
Don’t be put off by the budget production value, the quality of this film shines through.
Free to watch
Jade Goody’s story is nothing short of a fairytale. But far from being like the singalong Disney princess stories of recent years, Jade’s is more reminiscent of the gruesome and disturbing fables of old. The ancient Black Forest may have been swapped for the streets of Bermondsey at the turn of the new millennium, but the same potent mixture of vulnerability, unexpected success and ultimately tragedy, brilliantly comes to the fore in Channel 4’s breathtaking 3-part series.
Free to watch
"Defaced" is the world's first film on the culture of face tattoos. Why did you get one? How do people react when they see it? What does your mum think?
Face tats are part of a growing subculture in Paris and Director Hugo Bembi teamed up with Yard to get the bigger picture.
Free to watch
