Best Documentary Films

Documentary Category

DN279: The Great Hip Hop Hoax – Jeanie Finlay

One of the few directors we’d trust to guide us through the web of lies at the centre of The Great Hip Hop Hoax documentary is our dearest of filmmaking

Documentary

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but the Catholic church is in somewhat of a quandary of late. What with the fact that it is effectively leaderless

Documentary, Podcasts

DN278: Grasp the Nettle – Dean Puckett

For his latest feature documentary Grasp the Nettle, director Dean Puckett gave up his normal life to live with activists in the Kew Bridge echo village and

Documentary

Planktonic Origins: Sea Urchins

Christian Sardet’s Sea Urchins entry into the Planktonic Origins features stunning deep sea images of this little thought about organism.

Documentary

Cody

With AG Rojas’ prolific output, it might be quicker to actually dedicate a category to the Los Angeles based director on DN. Rojas’ latest return

Documentary, Podcasts

DN274: After Porn Ends – Bryce Wagoner

There have been numerous films which look in to the porn industry and the lives of the performers who make their living there, but very few have stuck around

Asides, Documentary

Whateverest

When we spoke to Kristoffer Borgli at the end of 2011 he told us that while features could wait, he did want to create more short films. So we’ve been

Documentary, Podcasts

DN272: GLOW – Brett Whitcomb & Bradford Thomason

Director Brett Whitcomb & Writer Bradford Thomason join us to discuss how they brought the story of the beloved Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling to screen.

Documentary

The Birth of a Tool: Axe Making

I never thought that I had even the slightest interest in seeing how an axe, chisel or knife was made, I was sorely mistaken! John Neeman Tools’ series

Documentary, Podcasts

DN270: As I Am – Alan Spearman

A combination of portraiture and vérité, mixed with a poetically impressionistic voice over, Alan Spearman’s As I Am is one of the most powerful

Documentary

Last Address

Last Address by filmmaker Ira Sachs is a poignant tour of the last residential addresses of a group of New York City artists who died of AIDS.

Art & Fashion, Documentary, Podcasts

DN268: Warm Earth, Which I’ve Been Told – Kurtis Hough

Kurtis Hough’s approach to filmmaking may best be described as the ‘patient experimental cinema of nature’. He makes his third appearance on

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