In between his stints working with Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass has directed quite a few devastating exposés of real-life horrors. From his 2002 docudrama Bloody Sunday, which detailed the eponymous ...

The abuse of human rights is one of the great tragedies of history and because it remains so prevalent there have been many documentaries in recent times concerned with it. However, until now I have ...

With its UK release following close on from that of North Sea, Nature Untamed, it is only natural to compare these two works yet in some key respects they are very different. Both are documentaries ...

I feel a warm attachment to this film which is not something that I had anticipated. It is the case that The Portuguese House has won ten awards but most of them were received in Spain which counts as ...

It’s reassuring that there are still spaces like Alaska left in the world, untouched by retail parks and data factories. For much of the running time of Heart of the Beast, the snowy peaks and virgin ...

Just over two weeks ago we lost the independent British film producer Jeremy Thomas, aged 77, whose credits included the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and ...

Jane Austen is the brand that just keeps on giving. And as with many established products, there have been numerous attempts to tweak it, modernise it and sex it up. But the fact remains that Austen ...

Nature studies are one of the most popular genres within the documentary sphere and that applies both as regards cinema films and programmes made for television. The veneration in which Sir David ...

John Boorman’s battle to direct Exorcist II: The Heretic is revealed in telling detail in David Kittredge’s engaging, well-made documentary. This documentary is all about a film which was made in 1977 ...

The winning streak of the horror genre continues apace with the latest instalment from the Aardman stable. With Halloween hovering at the end of next month, a brand-new adventure awaits children of ...

It may be slightly less than perfect but Queen at Sea made in Britain by the American director Lance Hammer is bound to be one of the most memorable films of the year and the three central ...

If the prospect of AI gaining increasing control of our lives is not scary enough, along comes a film that illustrates just how frightening it can be in the wrong hands. Information is power and, if ...