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Documentary films

May 2025

  • A still from The Hamlet Syndrome

    The Hamlet Syndrome review – soldiers turn to Shakespeare as Ukrainians deal with the war

  • ‘Multiplying paradoxes’ … Prince

    From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?

  • older man wearing a pink suit and matching hat looks ahead

    Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’

  • black-and-white photo of person playing guitar

    ‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

  • The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: how Stranger Things shook the stage

  • Martin Scorsese announces film that will feature Pope Francis’s ‘final interview’

April 2025

  • John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade.

    Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade review – reverential reminiscence takes its time

  • Where Dragons Live still.

    Where Dragons Live review – reflections on family life in an extraordinary setting

  • Glorious portrait … The Life of Sean DeLear.

    The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend

  • Leni Riefenstahl in a still from the new documentary

    How did Hitler’s film-maker hide her complicity from the world?

  • Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII review – mesmerically peculiar portrait of band on cusp of greatness

  • Raphael’s School of Athens review – rewarding study of Renaissance fresco

  • Wind, Tide & Oar review – a love letter to the good old fashioned art of sailing

  • An Army of Women review – shocking story of sex-assault survivors’ fight for justice

  • Escape from Extinction: Rewilding review – the case for eco-tourism and trophy hunting

  • The Accidental Spy review – remarkable story of CIA operative abandoned by his handlers

  • Neirud review – a mysterious family relationship that unravels Brazil’s complex social fabric

  • Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great

  • ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

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