Free documentaries

They're like made-up films, only real. Like Titanic? Er, not quite. Documentaries are just real, with no made-uppedness about them whatsoever. Like Jurassic Park? Ooh, you're just being silly now, aren't you?

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Viktor En Rolf - Because We're Worth It Culture 2004 PG

Viktor and Rolf - Because We're Worth It

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.

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Crass Culture 2006 15

Crass: there's No Authority But Yourself

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.
 

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I Love Alaska Environment 2008 15

I Love Alaska

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.

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The American I Never Was Culture 2004 PG

The American I Never Was

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. 

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Naked Culture 2006 U

Naked

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

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Aileen - Life and Death of a Serial Killer Documentary 2003 18

Aileen - Life and Death of a Serial Killer

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.  

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Fetishes Culture 1996 18

Fetishes

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.

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Aileen Wuornos - The Selling of a Serial Killer Documentary 1992 18

Aileen Wuornos - The Selling of a Serial Killer

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.

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Heidi Fleiss - A Hollywood Madam People 1995 18

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

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.

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Dear Oprah Politics 2008 U

Dear Oprah

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.

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Wild Scenes Culture 18

Wild Scenes

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. 

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Jungle Rudy Environment 2006 U

Jungle Rudy

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. 

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Celebration Culture 2005 U

Celebration

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? 

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One Man, One Cow, One Planet Environment 2007 PG

One Man, One Cow, One Planet

Septuagenarian farmer Peter Proctor journeys from his native New Zealand to India, to spread his message about the sustainability of biodynamic farming. As Proctor revives time-honoured agricultural practices, he finds a receptive audience amongst the Indian farmers wearied by the influence of the corporate giants.

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Pod Love - Virtual Freedom Culture 2007 PG

Pod Love - Virtual Freedom

Living in exile in Melbourne, unable to return to his native Burma, Maung Maung Aye occupies himself by creating animated representations of his homeland. While online, he meets a Burmese girl, and a long-distance romance begins to blossom.

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Pod Love - The 3g Of Us People 2007 PG

Pod Love - The 3G Of Us

Six year-old Uma tells how videophone technology became a vital part of her life following her parents' divorce, as it allowed her to keep in touch with them both at all times. The film makes use of stylised animation, based on the drawings of its young narrator.

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Pod Love - Our Brilliant Second Life People 2007 PG

Pod Love - Our Brilliant Second Life

Blair and Diana are a regular couple who work alongside each other at a car-valeting firm during the day. But, after hours, they are transformed in the virtual world of Second Life – he to superstar nightclub DJ, she to risqué fashion designer.

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Pod Love - I love like blood Culture 2007 PG

Pod Love - I Love Like Blood

An anonymous poem piques the interest of Sarah-Jane, and sets her off on a mission to identify her secret suitor. Vibrant rotoscoped animation is used to relate this tale of romance in the digital age.

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Dream City Culture 2007 PG

Dream City

Dream City is a theme park in Iraq. Local people and American soldiers discuss their experiences living and fighting in the war-torn country and contrast this with the pleasure, security and sense of community they experience visiting the escapist world of Dream City.

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The Unforbidden City Culture 2008 PG

The Unforbidden City

A shadow looms over Beijing's Source Street, and not only that of the newly-constructed National Grand Theatre. Plans are afoot to build ultramodern, luxury apartments on the site, leaving the future of the families who reside there as a matter of anxious uncertainty.

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