Mike is an ex-boxer who lives in Salford with his son Thomas and tries to give Thomas a way out of poverty and crime - the art of boxing. As Thomas' first fight approaches, he father asks: 'Are you going to make me proud?'
Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
Roger and Me is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town.
Filmed in Afghanistan and Laos, Footprints records the devastation wrought on the civilian population by the use of cluster bombs.
Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War.