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Documentary films

June 2026

  • A still from How to Feed a Dictator

    ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?

  • A still from Guardian documentary Is Mum OK?

    How do you give Britain’s hidden army of young carers a break? | Is Mum OK? Documentary

  • There are more than one million young carers in the UK – with an average age of 12 – which is the equivalent of two kids in every school class. Do they feel supported? In Walthamstow, east London, we meet a group of carers as they are collected for a rare night off that brings a sense of community and a glimpse of fun for a few hours every few weeks. It's hosted by Satvinder, a tenacious council worker who fights to improve the recognition of young carers in her borough and provides them crucial emotional support

    How do you give Britain's hidden army a break? | Is Mum OK? Documentary

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  • Three people in skis walk across snow toward a crevassed glacier face

    Time and Water review – Iceland’s doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster

  • My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs

  • ‘A Pavarotti rebirth’: the Samoan tenor taking over the world’s most gilded opera stages

  • Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict

  • Acting review – Cheek by Jowl masterclass in how to strut and fret upon the Shakespearean stage

  • Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics

  • The Guest review – the risks of protecting refugees in the Poland-Belarus danger zone

May 2026

  • Lucrecia Martel standing in a doorway wearing dark clothes and sunglasses and holding a walking stick

    ‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing

  • A still from Ask E Jean

    ‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’: E Jean Carroll shares life post-Trump in new film

  • A sports team in green jerseys huddles together with arms around each other, colourful buildings visible behind

    No Place for Football review – battling ice and snow to play the beautiful game in Greenland

  • A woman with a straw hat and white shirt talks to an Indigenous man with a red shirt.

    Landmarks review – Lucrecia Martel’s beautiful account of an Indigenous murder case

  • No Winter Holidays review – haunting portrait of female companionship in Nepal’s frozen highlands

  • Jeff Bezos calls Amazon’s $40m Melania film ‘a good business decision’

  • The Balloonists review – divas and disasters in tale of first round-the-world hot-air balloon flight

  • True North review – students take stand against racism in highly charged account of protest in 60s Canada

  • Relentless Memory review – a vital oral history of the plight of the Mapuche people

  • Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan

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