Who was the real Muhammad Ali?
A new documentary focuses on the family life of the legendary boxer. But is he a traitor, prophet or hero? Tom Brook talks to the film’s director.
View ArticleShining a light on genocide
A new film tells the story of a visionary who set the stage for the Nuremberg trials – but who died penniless and alone. Tom Brook reports.
View ArticleGraffiti’s golden age
The documentary Stations of the Elevated shows the birth of New York’s graffiti movement. Tom Brook interviews the man who helped raise vandalism to an artform.
View ArticleDid Altamont end the ‘60s?
The Altamont concert, with its notorious murder caught on film, occurred 45 years ago. Many consider it to be the end of the ‘60s, Owen Gleiberman writes.
View ArticleHippies in a heist movie?
A new documentary follows a group of young environmentalists as they campaign from a fishing boat. Its director tells Tom Brook about ‘mystics and mechanics’.
View ArticleSalgado: Turning the lens
A new Oscar-nominated film tells the life story of Sebastiao Salgado. Its co-director Wim Wenders talks to Tom Brook about the economist-turned-photographer.
View ArticleA scary, must-see Scientology doc
Alex Gibney’s Going Clear demystifies the powerful organisation. Owen Gleiberman awards five stars to a film that ‘has the scary intensity of a thriller’.
View ArticleFace to face with a boy jihadist
A documentary showing the Red Mosque in Pakistan is one of the hits of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Tom Brook talks to Owen Gleiberman and Aisha Harris.
View ArticleThe greatest rock documentaries
A new film about Kurt Cobain joins the long list of rock documentaries – but what makes a great one? Greg Kot picks out the best.
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