On Apple TV and in cinemas now. In , super-producer George Martin opened a recording studio on the island of Montserrat; ten years later, it was destroyed in a hurricane.
A fascinating insight into a small but significant part of music history. A new, three-part Netflix series charting the spectacular rise and fall of an automotive icon. A comprehensive and truly compelling series. The result is an uniquely intimate view of her life and death, which, the documentary makes clear, those closest to her are still grappling with. In the late s, Fox and Robert Richardson were convicted of a bank robbery. Fox served three-and-a-half years for the crime, while her husband landed a year sentence without parole.
During the decades he spent inside, Fox shot mountains of home videos of their three children so that eventually Robert could catch up. In Time , director Garrett Bradley weaves them together with present-day footage to create a piercing account of how the prison system tears families apart. From the New York Times , Framing Britney Spears is perhaps the most talked-about documentary of and the first in a tidal wave of docs about women in music. But director Samantha Stark also uses the pop icon as a vehicle to expose the toxic nature of fame in the early s — from pushy paparazzi to pervasive sexism.
Backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and created by the team that brought us Cowspiracy , this documentary aims to shed light on the damaging impact of commercial fishing. Outdated statistics mean that Seaspiracy has attracted a fair amount of criticism, but its main message — that commercial fishing is a serious threat to marine life — is entirely accurate.
In the hands of Kent-based environmentalist Ali Tabrizi, it makes for a compelling and, at times, distressing watch. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary, as well as numerous other accolades, My Octopus Teacher is a strange but engrossing tale. Part nature documentary, part human interest, it follows a diver who establishes a friendship with wild common octopuses over the course of a year.
He films their underwater encounters and follows up with insights into what he is learning from the relationship, resulting in an emotive and totally unique story about healing through nature. The college admissions scandal made headlines in when it was revealed that wealthy Americans had placed bribes to guarantee their children access to top universities. Shown alongside interviews with key players in the investigation, the film serves as a biting comment on wealth, power and privilege.
BFI player on Amazon. But Wheel Of Time is so much more than just a study of religion and art, or a great interview with the Dalai Lama though it is, also, both of these things : it is a deeply meditative state in itself, soothing to watch and yet a real glimpse into what intense devotion and pilgrimage can look like for believers of a faith.
Mubi via Amazon Video. Jiro Ono owns a ten-seat Tokyo restaurant that was the first sushi restaurant to get three Michelin stars.
Nobody has ever seen Jiro Dreams Of Sushi and not left charmed, hungry or both. When you feel curious and resilient — and have half a day to lose — this is well worth your time. BFI via Amazon Video. Teen movies do not get the praise they deserve.
As a genre, they manage to capture the polyphony and complexity of one of the most formative and universal of human experiences: adolescence in the education system. In Beyond Clueless , Charlie Lyne explores more than of the films that came out between and , AKA most of the decade after the iconic Alicia Silverstone vehicle this is named after.
Sometimes you watch a music documentary so thoroughly researched, with such a brilliantly chosen selection of talking heads, that it can only be described as definitive. But what follows is not only a cohesive history of something we otherwise entirely take for granted, but also a study as to how fonts come to be in the first place and the historical context that informs how we want words to look. Blackpink have made a career of proving, time and time again, that they are more than just the embodiment of a K-pop girl group: they are also a perfect prism for exploring the Korean music industry, how women function in music internationally and how the Western world perceives both Asian identity and Asian femininity.
Unlike many other music docs of the past few years, Blackpink allow for some real vulnerability and introspection here under the careful direction of Caroline Suh who also did Salt Fat Acid Heat.
A study of civil rights leaders via archived interviews and observations by Baldwin himself, narrated by Samuel L Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro takes deniers of bigotry by the hand and refuses to let them turn away.
It does not feel hyperbolic to say The Act Of Killing is the kind of documentary that will truly never happen ever, ever again. Oppenheimer invites these perpetrators to reimagine their killings in the style of cinematic genres, an absurd premise that leads to horrifying reckonings for men who have never faced true punishment for their sins.
Watch it once, remember it forever. It may even convince you to delete Twitter — until the endorphin rush of a new like on that meme you posted floods your mind, of course. David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is fundamentally a retrospective on his career as a documentarian, but through looking back at his esteemed career, we see just how much damage has been done to the planet in the space of a lifetime.
Crip Camp takes us to the summer of , at an American camp for teens with disabilities, Camp Jened. Showcasing the extraordinary impact of one formative summer and the potential that can be unleashed when minorities band together, Crip Camp is a joy to watch, if only for the chance to see people with disabilities authentically represented on screen.
Excellence in sport always makes for an entertaining documentary subject, but in the case of Rising Phoenix , the stories of the Paralympic athletes featured are even more compelling. Athlete A asks them to be brave once more, diving into just how this systematic abuse was able to happen, with heartbreaking testimonies from survivors and an insight into the brutal world of competitive gymnastics.
Raise Hell is the perfect documentary for anyone interested in journalism — or, indeed, anyone to whom the idea of an hour and a half in the company of a hard-drinking, wisecracking, six-foot Texan woman appeals, because Molly Ivins was all of those things.
If you're in any doubt as to why trans representation is so important, then watch Disclosure immediately. Featuring interviews with the likes of Laverne Cox and Jen Richards, this documentary dives deep into the history of transgender people in film and TV, revealing the disturbing stereotypes that the industry continues to perpetuate to this day.
But it's not all negative. Disclosure also does a brilliant job of highlighting the trailblazers who have paved the way for others, as well as the influence that the trans community has had on every aspect of our culture.
At a time when trans rights are often the centre of debate, Disclosure could not be more urgent. We're by now all too familiar with the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, but this docuseries on the scandal delves into even seedier depths — if you can believe it — revealing just how the sex offender groomed young girls, through brave interviews with survivors, as well as journalists and the law enforcement who eventually brought him down.
Most infuriatingly, it also reveals how Epstein got away with his crimes for so long, laying bare a system that allows the rich and powerful to get away with whatever they want, while their vulnerable victims are left to suffer.
Intrigued by the title? You should be. It was almost an impossible task, with no indication as to where the killer lived or from where they were uploading the videos, but it's just as well they persisted. As is often the case, the abuser eventually graduated on to bigger targets.
Featuring interviews with practically everyone in Hollywood, from the aforementioned names to posthumous appearances from Carrie Fisher and Anthony Bourdain, Have A Good Trip is basically a bunch of celebrities talking about their wild hallucinogenic experiences, with each story illustrated by reenactments and cartoons.
As you'd expect, it is indeed a good trip, full of laughs and arguments that make the case for psychedelic usage. Whatever your stance on the latter, you'll enjoying hearing all the stories of A-listers getting trippy. This is the doc to stick on when you're all true-crimed out. How do you set up a neo-Nazi state? Quotes Ramtha : Have you ever stopped for a moment and looked at yourself through the eyes of the ultimate observer?
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Top review. What's the big idea? This unusual picture tackles head-on the bizarre world of quantum physics and tries to meld it with mysticism and religion in its attempt to approach ultimate questions like "Why are we here?
Having read a good deal about quantum mechanics, I was amazed that any movie made for popular consumption would even approach such a subject, one which not a single physicist can claim to truly understand.
The film uses graphics to illustrate the realm of the subatomic world, in which nothing can be said to be in any definite state until it encounters another piece of matter. In approaching quantum mechanics I think the filmmakers would have done well to mention one of the most famous experiments in all physics, in which light shining through 2 holes and onto a screen creates alternating lighter and darker interference bands, proving that light travels as a wave waves interfere with each other , until one places a particle detector at one of the 2 holes, at which point the light-dark interference bands disappear and the light suddenly and bafflingly becomes single points particles.
One may admire the temerity of the filmmakers for assuming audiences can absorb such mind-bending concepts and at the same time castigate them for at temping to meld physics and metaphysics, for science is a never-ending process of testing and re-evaluation, while astrology, mysticism and all "belief-based systems" have only faith to sustain them.
Relativity and quantum mechanics need no "explantion" or reason to believe in them other than the fact they are among science's most successful theories and have proved themselves over and over by such instruments as telescopes and particle accelerators. The precepts of quantum physics, in fact, led to the transistor and all of today's micro-processor-based electronics. Thus, science and mysticism have little to do with one another and attempting to mix them leads to muddled thinking rather than clarity.
In spite of the above reservations I feel "What the Bleep" deserves some credit. Since most movies offer nothing but entertainment and much of it mindless at that, this film explores concepts that are probably new territory to most viewers. The filmmakers may have intended the metaphysics as a way to introduce the quantum world to audiences whose minds have been conditioned by a lifetime of religion rather than science. At any rate, this picture should provide a glimpse into new worlds for many viewers and may even prove to be an "enlightening experience" - pun intended.
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Thanks to social media, you get to know her and daughters Celeste and Bella, you watch their birthdays, their holidays, their smiles and laughter, painting them as the perfect American family. It's an expertly executed, at times horrifying account of deceit, betrayal and domestic violence. During the 80s and 90s, Walter Mercado was a fixture of Latin American life. Every day he would appear, flamboyantly swirling his bejewelled capes and sporting impossibly feathery hair, to read people's horoscopes on TV.
Then he suddenly vanished. The androgynous Puerto Rican astrologer, whose personal life was a complete mystery, used the force of his self-conviction to climb his way into millions of people's living rooms. Like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard , he ended up isolated in his mansion, surrounded by paraphernalia of his glory years including dozens of capes and bizarre paintings of his own face and guarded by a protective assistant called Willie. Unlike Desmond, his ending isn't tragic.
When the year old, once described as "bigger than Jesus Christ" appears on camera for this documentary, he sparkles, but seems smaller and vulnerable.
He doesn't want to talk about death "how depressing" or ageing "I'm just like Dorian Gray". But in front of his fans, who he truly loves, he grows larger than life. This loving tribute to Mercado is rather too indulgent at times, but does something unique.
It shows that the man under the cape was just the same as the man on screen: wonderful, weird and the real deal. A sometimes verbose but engrossing documentary about brotherhood and trauma — both psychological, and pretty physical. The latter and the former collide when Alex Lewis, a year-old from the home counties, has a motorcycle accident, hits his head and forgets everything about his life; well, not quite everything: he remembers that the young man standing at his bedside is his identical twin, Marcus, and that he can trust him.
Back in his family home, Alex asks Marcus to help him reconstruct his past: does he have a girlfriend? How is his relationship with their parents? Why does her mum keep inviting strange people to their home? This harrowing documentary follows journalists from The Indianapolis Star as they uncover an abuse scandal that goes to the heart of gymnastics in the US. As an Olympic doctor is sent to jail, the documentary tells the story through the survivors who spoke out against how they were treated.
The s Chicago Bulls were a force of nature — and Jordan in particular helped create the superstar athlete genre with his skill and grace both on and off the basketball court.
The Last Dance is, ostensibly, a look at the final season for that great Bulls team — featuring Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and more players who would become household names. The action jumps back and forth between and the late 80s and early 90s when Jordan was coming through and dominating, using a mixture of archive clips and never before seen behind-the-scenes footage.
This Netflix documentary is the first in a wave of works focused on the heinous life of mega-rich and powerful business magnate Jeffery Epstein. Epstein is perhaps best known for being accused of raping hundreds of underage girls over the course of decades with impunity. For most of his life, Epstein seemed untouchable. Even after a investigation sparked renewed interest from prosecutors and led to him being put in custody, his apparent suicide in prison when he was denied bail left victims and the public with more questions than answers.
The documentary paints Ghislaine Maxwell as a direct conspirator and co-abuser which she denies. Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew are also thrown back into the spotlight as people that eye-witnesses had spotted close to Epstein again, they deny this.
This documentary may make you angry, but comes no closer to unravelling the mystery around his life and death than other reports. Instead, it focuses on the women who accused him of abusing them and trafficking them to other powerful men. Again and again, they tell their stories, describing how they were lured to his house in Palm Beach, or to his private island, and abused. It's painful to watch. Their voices become centre stage as they say the trail of monsters goes far beyond Epstein, and that justice has yet to be done.
A book deal and an excerpt in the New Yorker suggest he might be right. But when these two duelling personalities and their egos start to unravel, so does the story Talese is trying to tell. The documentary itself very much comes in two halves. In the second, Talese becomes as much of a flawed character as Foos when his journalistic integrity is questioned and reputation is left tainted.
What started as a story about one perverted peeper, ended with two oddballs struggling for control of their own narrative. The American big cat community is wild. Very wild. This true crime fly-on-the-wall documentary centres on the trials and tribulations of an Oklahoma zoo owner called Joe Exotic and his nemesis, an animal rights activist called Carol Baskin. How does a millionaire American football player for the sport's most successful team come to murder a man in cold blood?
It's a fascinating story and the three episodes will grip fans and non-fans alike. It falls a little short in some respects, especially in examining the potential role of CTE a degenerative brain disease and a sometimes salacious interest in his sexuality, but it's still a compelling watch and those who enjoy it would do well to listen to the Boston Globe's podcast series Gladiator , which goes into greater depth on the Aaron Hernandez story.
Want more choice? Netflix's six-part docuseries on the preparations underway to prevent a future pandemic was eerily timed.
Three weeks before the series dropped, the first cases of a previously unknown coronavirus were reported in China — the start of an outbreak that would change the world forever.
Pandemic looks at the risks of future global pandemics, and follows the researchers and medical professionals who will be on the front line when the inevitable happens. Bikram yoga first emerged in the s and since then it's taken over the world, with a huge number of celebrity endorsements. The yoga itself is a proprietary system 26 moves that's conducted in a hot room.
But aside from the exercise, it's grown in popularity due to its enigmatic founder Bikram Choudhury. This documentary exposes deep problems behind the Choudhury's empire. The film tells the story from the perspective of the victims and is a harrowing watch. Before food arrives on your plate, it can take a tumultuous journey. The imported food we eat can often have a hidden back story — Rotten seeks to expose this.