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Rosa Parks: new documentary sheds light on a misunderstood figure | Documentary films
To Tell the Truth is a long-running TV show in which a panel of celebrities is presented with three contestants who all claim to be…
Descendant review – powerful Netflix documentary on the legacy of slavery | Documentary films
Descendent, Margaret Brown’s documentary about the search for America’s last known slave ship, begins with a distant figure kayaking through a sun-dappled swamp. Green leaves…
Descendant review – fascinating documentary about a lost slave ship | Documentary films
For more than a century, the burnt wreck of the Clotilda, the last known ship to have transported enslaved Africans to America, lay somewhere in…
Beyond the White review – calmness abounds in remote Russian villages | Movies
A wonderful stillness enfolds Evgeny Kalachikhin’s contemplative documentary which observes the daily routines of the residents of Kuzomen, Chavanga, and Tetrino, three remote Russian villages…
Sound for the Future review – memoir of kids’ post-punk band is film-making therapy | Movies
Who is this film for? That’s a question I found myself asking during artist and film-maker Matt Hulse’s ramshackle documentary. Aged 11, in the late…
Kanye West: industry backlash continues as Kim Kardashian speaks out | Kanye West
A completed documentary about kanye-westalso known as Ye, has been scrapped amid concern and industry backlash over the rapper’s string of antisemitic statements in recent…
‘The truth is they’re vulnerable’: inside America’s mobile home crisis | Documentary films
ORrgent as it may be, the affordable housing crisis is a term that can make one’s eyes glaze over. News coverage of how Americans who…
This Is National Wake review – the story of South Africa’s multiracial punk rockers | Music documentary
This documentary charting the rise and fall of the only multiracial punk rock band in apartheid-era south africa will please fans but, lacking scale and…
Doctor Who Am I review – a genial dive into the Whoniverse with one of its creators | Documentary films
When Matthew Jacobs’s name is first displayed on screen in this likeable documentary, he is identified as a “mid-level screenwriter”; it’s more of a self-deprecating…
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues review – swinging doc is a stirring tribute | Movies
LUxuriating in a wealth of archival material that encompasses radio and TV interviews, privately recorded conversations from reel-to-reel tapes (Armstrong could swear like a sailor),…