The term 'free cinema' was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson in early 1956 when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti showed a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre. Although the name was intended only for that screening, it proved so successful that five more programmes were shown under the same banner between 1956 and 1959. find out more...

The term 'free cinema' was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson in early 1956 when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti showed a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre. Although the name was intended only for that screening, it proved so successful that five more programmes were shown under the same banner between 1956 and 1959. find out more...

The term 'free cinema' was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson in early 1956 when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti showed a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre. Although the name was intended only for that screening, it proved so successful that five more programmes were shown under the same banner between 1956 and 1959. find out more...

Garry Kasparov was, and indeed still is, one of the world's greatest chess players, but in 1997 he reached his nadir with the match against IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue. Game Over is a fascinating insight into the mind of a troubled genius, and a gripping story in its own right, drawing you in regardless of your knowledge of the game. find out more...

Winner of an Oscar for "Best Documentary", this film (beautifully shot in black and white) recaptures the life and music of the late, great jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. The founder of the Californian school of "Cool Jazz" this film is in itself remarkably cool and stylish. find out more...

Every year New York City is host to a ballroom dancing competition that leaves all others in the shade, as the children from over sixty schools within the borough enter (with a breathtaking gusto and determination) the world of the Tango. Mad Hot Ballroom is a delightfully engaging documentary, witty, touching and utterly addictive. find out more...

A pretty exhaustive documentary that looks back at what some have described as "the artistic crime of the century": tightrope walker Philippe Petit's death defying, utterly illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Centre's twin towers in 1974. A fascinating and gripping look at a meticulously planned and breathtaking act of defiance. find out more...

The film is based on the life of John Reed, the Communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that Shook the World. The film works both as a history of the American left and as an epic romance, between Reed and Louise Bryant, an important feminist and radical journalist in her own right. After involvement with labour and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the 1917 October Revolution and, inspired, return to the US, hoping to find out more...

Joe Simpson, the climber whose tenacious, indeed, superhuman will to survive was the subject of ‘Touching the Void' tells the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies; that of Toni Kurtz, a brilliant young climber, who, along with partner Andreas Hinterstoisser and two Austrian climbers, attempted an ascent of the then unclimbed Eiger's North Face in 1936. Like ‘Touching the Void', 'The Beckoning Silence' is a haunting combination of retrospective monologue and grippingly real dramat find out more...

An observational documentary focussing on the editor-in-chief of American Vogue Magazine, Anna Wintour, and following the putting together of the magazine's largest ever edition: the September 2007 issue. Consistently involving this is an excellent insight into both the fashion industry and the world of Wintour, whose story has been waited for ever since 'The Devil Wears Prada' first hit the bookstores and then the big screen. find out more...