This is a very good deconstruction of the political polemicist Michael Moore, a man who's made a lot of money out of feeding liberals entertainment and whose cupboard rattles with skeletons. The film goes into a number of details of gross inaccuracies, and betrayals of the people he pertains to support, in order to further his career. In particular we learn about lies told in 'Roger and Me', eg about the supposed apathy of the locals and about being unable to talk to Roger. We hear about the len find out more...

An engaging and thought provoking documentary following the vascillating fortunes of Marla Olmstead, a toddler from Binghamton, New York State, who took the modern art world by storm in 2004. With her abstract canvases fetching thousands of dollars little Marla became a media darling and her parents became wealthy, but, when a profile on '60 Minutes' questions whether her father, himself a keen amateur artist, had more than a guiding hand in the paintings, the Olmstead family find themselves ens find out more...

Revered Brit film director Terence Davies paints a picture of Liverpool life from his childhood days to the modern in this poetic docu-essay memoir. Heavy on poetry and classical music, heavily against the Church and the monarchy, full of newsreel and documentary footage, this is an awesome tribute to a city that he loves. find out more...

US comedian Bill Maher travels the world, with a metaphoric blunderbuss, to mock religious zealots by allowing them to spout quixotically outlandish pieces of madness/religion and to point out some of the logical absurdities in their beliefs. Some of the victims are purely nuts, but most represent the views of mainstream sects, only a Vatican priest really saves the day for God with a humourous scepticism about the whole nature of fundamentalism. The destinations include Jerusalem, the Vatican, find out more...

A highly personalised documentary account of one filmmaker's frustrated attempts to interview the Chairman of General Motors when he closed down 35,000 jobs in his hometown. Instead he focuses on the drastic and wry effects on the town. The result is incisive, witty, and (surprisingly) very, very funny. A Must! find out more...

Senna is the true story of Brazilian motor-racing legend, Ayrton Senna, whom many believe was the greatest driver who ever lived. Spanning Senna’s meteoric Formula One career both on track and off; his quest for perfection and his volatile relationship with the monstrously dictatorial racing governing body. ‘Senna’ is a mesmerising documentary of not just a remarkable driver but a remarkable man. A film that far transcends the need for an interest in the sport.

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Placed within a small farming community in mid Wales, about 50 miles north of Dylan Thomas' fictional village from ‘Under Milk Wood', director Koppel's parents, both refugees, found a home. It is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Koppel leads us on a poetic journey; an elegiac, delicate observation of a hard/harsh, simple existence on the cusp of inevitable extinctio find out more...

Photographed by Frank Hurley and restored by the National Film and Television Archive, "South" records Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic but doomed 1914 attempt to cross Antarctica. This unique piece of history is also a visually stunning story of strength and survival.

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In the USA suicide is far more common than homicide, someone taking their own life every eighteen minutes, with the iconic Golden Gate Bridge confirmed as the most popular suicide destination in the world. Inspired by an article written by Tad Friend of the New Yorker, entitled 'The Fatal Grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge', Steel and his crew watched the bridge for all of 2004, filmed most of the 24 deaths, prevented several others and recorded the suffering and desperation of so many of the ju find out more...

An artful documentary about the life of Daniel Johnson, singer/songwriter, artist, cartoonist and general artistic genius, but a man sadly afflicted with a severe mental illness that makes him totally self-delusional and an occasional danger to both himself and others. Daniel, raised in a Christian fundamentalist family in deepest West Virginia, amongst many of his fantasies, sees Devils everywhere, and with his overblown self-importance, not helped by his legions of admirers, vying with his low find out more...