Documentaries

When 27-year-old aspiring filmmaker Brian Herzlinger wins $1,100 he decides to use the money to get a date with his childhood crush Drew Barrymore. He gets a camera on credit planning to use the returns policy to document his effort – which means he has just 30 days to make his dream come true.

A documentary on the 1955 Crispus Attucks basketball team, whose revolutionary style of play helped to define modern basketball and whose team members, like NBA All-Star Oscar Robertson, went on to become basketball legends.

With information for dads (and mums) to be, Being Dad covers all the hot topics from conception through birth and everything in between including finance, sex, premature birth and labour.

Nisa Ward’s film seeks to expose the hidden realities of hunting – via footage of hunters’ aggressive interactions with hunt monitors and their effect on other inhabitants of the countryside – and show what a repeal of the ban would mean.

A short, poetic documentary: Enjoy Your Meal follows links in the food chain to show how Western eating habits impinge upon the lives of people on Colombia’s remote Pacific coast.

Anton Newcombe, volatile frontman of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, is the star of this Sundance-winning documentary chronicling the contrasting fortunes of his band and their rock 'n' roll rivals The Dandy Warhols.

An exploration of different forms of body modification, including extreme tattooing, scarification, piercing and suspension, plastic surgery and more. Warning: contains graphic footage of surgery and modification.

A documentary covering a year in the career of avant-garde designers Viktor & Rolf, starting from their exhibition in the Louvre Museum in 2004 and building up to the launch of their perfume and  catwalk collection of autumn 2005.

The brief history of Crass, the avowedly political British punk collective, active 1977-1984, is retold using interviews and archive footage. As well as the Crass manifesto, there are musings on the Thatchergate hoax and being ripped off by David Beckham.
 

An AOL blunder in 2006 led to the search histories of 650,000 internet users being made public, and it is one of these histories which forms the basis of I Love Alaska.

Chris Keulemans was a “third culture kid”, growing up in a number of different countries, always imagining he was really from New Jersey, USA. A road movie told in stills details the journey of a man trying to discover the beauty and sense of home that he never had. 

These amusing personal stories about puberty are told by children between the ages of 10-13 and illustrated with quirky animations. 

In Nick Broomfield’s second documentary on the first known female serial killer, he investigates Aileen’s past in an attempt to discover if her crimes were committed in self-defence, as Aileen cracks up on Death Row.  

Nick Broomfield and crew investigate the sexual fetishes catered for by the dominatrixes of upscale S/M club Pandora’s Box in Manhattan. Warning: contains adult content.

Broomfield’s first doc about the serial killer looks at the oddities and inconsistencies in her trial, including interviews with the bizarrely incompetent lawyer who persuaded her to plead no contest to seven counts of murder.

Filmed during Fleiss' high-profile LA trial on drugs and pandering charges, British documentary-maker Nick Broomfield attempts to uncover the story of how a girl from a privileged family background went into business procuring prostitutes for the rich and famous in Hollywood.

An American road trip, examining low voter turn-out. Featuring footage of Obama campaigning, the film is a fascinating portrait of a nation on the brink of political change.

Pashtuns are a people who live in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pashtun movies – otherwise known as Lollywood porn – form a kind of lite-porn genre in which female performers dance provocatively. People from the industry, film critics and a women’s activist discuss the films and their effect on Pashtun culture. 

Rudy Truffino abandoned a life of privilege for a new world of travel and adventure. He fell in love with the jungle of Venezuela and built a beautiful resort there. But its success finally led him to abandon his utopian home – and his wife and children. Filmmaker Rob Smits travelled to Venezuela to find his family and examine the legacy of ‘Jungle’ Rudy. 

Celebration is a purpose-built, sanitised town in Florida. Created by Disney to reflect its own values, the bizarre community (dating from 1996) features only pre-1940s-style architecture and has its own ‘garden police’. Six couples go in search of their very own utopian lifestyle: will they find here?