In one of the most beloved documentaries of the 1990s, Wim Wenders captures a forgoten generation of Cuba's brightest musical talents as they collaborate with Ry Cooder to form the Buena Vista Social Club.
A TV news cameraman finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Bani Singh’s phenomenal in-depth look into her father's past as a gold medalist hockey player starts off as a lovely look down memory lane that soon develops into an investigative documentary into the lost friendships and fallout of the Partition of India.
A Song for Cesar presents a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement.
A decade after his critically acclaimed Le Quattro Volte, Michaelangelo Frammartino returns with this equally unclassifiable cinematic delight.
An insightful and rare documentary about the views, hopes and struggles of ordinary women travelling on the rush-hour ‘Ladies Only’ carriages to and from the hyper frenetic megalopolis of Mumbai.
One man’s tireless struggle to free his seven grandchildren from a prison camp in Syria in an unforgettable film about an inflamed political dilemma.
Revealing a rarely discussed but strongly enforced law in South Korea, Shadow Flowers follows a North Korean woman who finds herself trapped in South Korea, unable to return to her family in the North.
An intimate portrait of three courageous female wrestlers (Luchadoras) from Ciudad Juarez. Despite being surrounded by machismo they redefine the image of women in Mexico.
Being BeBe intimately charts 15 years in the life of drag performer Marshall Ngwa (aka BeBe Zahara Benet): An immigrant to America from Cameroon, first champion on RuPaul's Drag Race, and a leading artist celebrating Black Queer Excellence today.
In 2019, the “Extradition Bill” which would have allowed the extradition of Hongkongers to China opened a Pandora’s box, turning Hong Kong into a battlefield against the Chinese authoritarian rule.
Winner of the top prize at IDFA, Mr. Landsbergis tells an absorbing story of the Luthianuan nation's fight for independence between 1988 and 1993. This epic documentary focuses on music professor Vytautas Landsbergis, who by the will of fate became the first Head of Parliament of Lithuania after it left the Soviet Union.
This film takes us back to the glory years of Balanchine’s New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius.
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy.
This revelatory programme of five newly-restored short documentaries is a tribute to the work of pioneering female documentary-makers whose contribution to the genre is widely overlooked, including Ruby and Marion Grierson.
Lancaster tells he story of the iconic WW2 bomber through the words of the last surviving crew members, re-mastered archive material and extraordinary aerial footage of the RAF’s last airworthy Lancaster.
An unbreakable hope is the driving force behind a young woman called Dilya, who became a human rights activist the day her brother Iskandar was thrown in prison, accused of being a terrorist.
Julia Bacha's revealing documentary spotlights the little-known but widespread US state laws which penalise people for choosing to boycott Israel.
Prolific British producer Kevin Loader joins us to discuss this heady, energetic portrait of Her Majesty the Queen, directed by the late, great and much celebrated Roger Michell (Notting Hill, The Duke).
Almost 35 years after their breakthrough, the 'Take On Me' stars are still together and touring the world. This is the full story of how three young Norwegian men chased their impossible dream of making it big.
Jabir, Usama and Useir are three young brothers living in the Bosnian countryside. They have grown up in the shadow of their father, a strict Islamist preacher, but when he is sentenced to two years in prison, the brothers are suddenly left alone, and begin to question their father's teaching.