documentary

James Blunt is as well-known for his searing humour as he is his music and today it’s been announced that he’s filming a documentary with Lorton Entertainment, the company behind ‘Bros: After the Screaming Stops’. The documentary is being filmed as Blunt tours throughout 2022 on his ‘Greatest Hit Tour’. Directed by Chris Atkins, the doc follows Blunt across Europe and delves into the singer’s backstory, from witnessing the genocide of the Kosovo War, recording the biggest selling album of the noughties, enduring the…

Shamony Gibson spent the final months of her life excitedly anticipating the birth of her second child. “Time is flying, four months already,” she says in a home video collage at the beginning of Aftershock, a new documentary about the black maternal health crisis in the US. “Every day is a new process, you wake up like, ‘Oh my god, I’m that much closer to being a mom again.’”Gibson, a 30-year-old resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, gave birth to her son, Khari, in September 2019 via c-section. For days afterwards,…

The Social Dilemma — a new documentary that explores the impact of social networking, which released on Netflix last week — manages to answer why you're watching it even before the first scene ends. Directed by Jeff Orlowski, this documentary made me want to turn off my notifications. Delete the apps I don't need. And keep my phone away.If you watch the film only on the surface, doomscrolling through your timeline or multi-tasking across half a dozen apps, you probably won't be enthralled by it. The Social Dilemma…

As per NBC News' description for the 30-minute documentary, "The Depp vs Heard defamation trial evoked two distinct reactions -- those who couldn't get enough and those who received more than they wanted Amber Heard with ex-husband Johnny Depp. Pic/AFP A new documentary on the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial by NBC News is set to make its debut on the digital platform. Titled 'A Marriage on Trial: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and…

Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, a new documentary about the former congresswoman turned gun control activist, opens on the National Mall dotted with bouquets like a somber orchard – 40,000 white flowers for lives lost to gun violence in the US in 2019, 5,000 orange ones for the increase in 2020. She walks with a limp and a cane, the result of partial paralysis on her right side following an attempted assassination in 2011. Her face, altered by the injuries from a gunshot wound to the head and several life-saving…

At the 1990 Academy Awards, the nominations for documentary featured a surprising number of actors. Dustin Hoffman lent his voice to a film about the Aids memorial quilt, Joe Mantegna told the tale of one US county’s crack epidemic, while Gregory Peck narrated a biography of chief justice Earl Warren. Fast forward to this year’s ceremony and the actors had gone quiet. With the exception of Riz Ahmed’s dubbing on the English-language version of Flee, the shortlisted films had no booming star narrator. In fact, they had no…

Netflix viewers are praising the unsung hero of a “horrifying” new documentary.Girl in the Picture was released earlier this month, and has been branded “the most frightening thing ever” by those who have streamed it.The true-crime documentary film, directed by Abducted in Plain Sight’s Skye Borgman, tells the story of the death of a young woman Tonya Hughes, believed at the time to have been called Sharon, who was the victim of a hit and run In 1990, and the kidnapping of her son shortly after. Girl in the Picture…

Netflix users are calling its latest true-crime documentary “one of the the most frightening things” they’ve ever watched.The doc, titled Girl in the Picture, has disturbed viewers since its addition to the streaming service earlier this week.It tells the the story of a young mother whose tragic death is followed by the kidnapping of her son, both events of which open a mystery spanning decades.The documentary is directed by Skye Borgman, who previously directed 2017’s Abducted in Plain Sight for the streaming…

George Lucas and the ILM crew making Star Wars.Image: Disney+The trailer that follows will be the most epic, star-studded thing you see today. I don’t care if Marvel announces Avengers 5 and dead characters come back from the grave, cross over with Star Wars, and they all fight the DC Universe. This trailer has it beat. Lucas. Spielberg. Cameron. Howard. Zemeckis. These are just some of the people who are in a new documentary called Light and Magic, directed by Star Wars and Indiana Jones writer Lawrence Kasdan. The…

Making a feature length documentary about a single song is a risky gambit. Even the most beloved tune is likely to wear out its welcome after the first hour. But Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” inhabits its own rarified realm with a pedigree that stretches credulity. More than a song, “Hallelujah” has become an international hymn that seems endlessly pliable. Carnal and sanctified, endlessly reworked and rearranged, it provides a supremely dramatic vehicle for divergent impulses. Directed by the veteran San Francisco…