The story of the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh and reinstalled the Shah. Featuring never seen before archive which had been hidden for decades.
When Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui is fired from her radio station, she is determined to carry on with her investigations into corruption - but at what cost?
As part of our 4th doc-making competition Marc Isaacs kicks off our workshop series with tips on interviewing from behind the camera.
Filmed over 10 years, Father Soldier Son is a profound and deeply personal exploration of the meaning of sacrifice, purpose, duty and American manhood in the aftermath of war.
Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones–Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria
Our first official virtual pub quiz is on all things documentary, so assemble your team and join us. Will you have what it takes to win?
At a time where Black Lives Matter and intersectionality are being explored globally, we invite you to see Marlon Riggs' landmark 1989 essay, Tongues Untied.
Enjoy a Q&A showing of D.W. Young’s lively tour of New York's book scene. ‘A treat for anyone that appreciates the printed word’ - The Hollywood Reporter
On the eve of London Pride, Bertha DocHouse teams up with BBC Storyville to discuss the persecution the LGBTQ+ community faces in Chechnya.
We invite our very talented community to share their creative responses to the lived experience of self-isolation caused by COVID-19. Entries can include short docs and docu-dramas, but it must contain archive material.
Bertha DocHouse and the High Commission of Canada in the UK present this powerful & inspiring film about the hardships of refugees to mark Refugee Week and World Refugee Day.
For thirty years, Marion Stokes secretly video-taped everything on TV, twenty-four hours a day. She witnessed the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle, which burgeoned across the channels and transformed the way we receive - and dispose of - news.
DocHouse Watch Party: Krabi, 2562 + Q&A
Join us for an online Q&A with one of the UK's most interesting documentary artists, as he presents his film on a small Thai town where native cultures collide with the demands of capitalistic tourism.
Writer, visual artist, performer and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shakes up the conservative Chilean society during Pinochet's brutal dictatorship in 1980s.
As part of filmmaking series we're running with archive specialists, London's Screen Archive's David Whorlow will speak to Raindance Film Festival about his best advice for filmmakers wanting to make an archive doc.
Join us for a co-presented online screening of a programme of short works, the first event in a planned larger series entitled 'Frontierland,' curated by Pamela Cohn and Open City Documentary Festival.
Can you ever really understand life from the perspective of teenagers? Agostino Ferrente gets us close by handing a cameraphone to Alessandro and Pietro.
In this beautifully observed cinema vérité film, we spend five years watching best friends Emma and Anaïs, who are growing up in a provincial French town.
We know it's not easy to go out and make a film safely at the moment, part of our 'New Reveries: The Power of Archive Now' competition, we're inviting people from all round the world to spark a golden age of archive documentaries from home.
Dr. Shane O'Sullivan joined us on Thursday the 21st of May for a workshop on archive filmmaking.
DocHouse Watch Party: Park Avenue - Money, Power and The American Dream + Online Q&A
Academy Award winner Alex Gibney exposes the increasing power of the corporate elite over Washington and gets to grips with who really runs American politics.