Category: Documentary
The IDA Awards – International Documentary Association Announce 2018 Winners
The International Documentary Association (IDA) have been building up to one of the biggest nights of the year for the ever-growing genre of filmmaking. In…
Top of the Docs: Bee's Top 10 Documentaries of 2018
2018 has been a strong year for documentaries. With so many of documentaries sharing similar themes and topics. This is my personal pick of the…
LFF Exclusive Review: The Raft
Dubbed ”Big Brother” at sea, in 1973 an anthropologist placed 11 demographically diverse strangers on a raft for 100 days, and gave them to cross…
Money! Money! Money! Generation Wealth Review
Just what can money buy you? Status, class, authority, respect, infamy, a presidency? The list of things you can gain with a little (or rather…
Not Another Dumb Blonde: Mansfield 66/67
Despite being dubbed as another dumb blonde to rival Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield was actually a genius with very high IQ, of 163. In addition…
East of Edie: How Grey Gardens Changed the Documentary
Once upon there was a beautiful house that represented the American dream. Inside the house, there were two beautiful, sophisticated socialites, who were part of…
Searching for Whitney: Kevin Mcdonald's New Documentary Whitney
Whitney Houston was an icon, a film star, a pop legend, a woman who overcame the odds to rise to the top of stardom. But…
The House That Bergman Built: A Review of Trespassing Bergman
There’s no denying that Ingmar Bergman made a lasting impression on so many great filmmakers. But it’s often hard to wrap our heads around the…
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
The British Empire is a thing of the distant past, long dead and buried. But, out of the ashes a new, more destructive empire emerged;…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Ten
“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Nine
“It’s a funny thing with documentary films – you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Eight
“There is so much investment in it of people’s labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Seven
“I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it…
100 Must See Documentary Films – File Six
“When you’re shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don’t want accidents; you want to know exactly what’s…