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Documentary films

April 2025

  • ‘All of a sudden, they exploded’ … Prodan, centre, with his band Sumo.

    ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

  • Neil Young: Coastal

    Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

  • Sharp … Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story.

    Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story review – original rude girl is still impossibly cool

  • Abortion Dream Team

    Abortion Dream Team review – dynamic study of activists resisting Poland’s near-total ban

  • The Balcony Movie review – funny/sad film that offers a view into strangers’ lives

  • Other lives
    Tony Nicholls obituary

  • Wendy Ide's film of the week
    One to One: John & Yoko review – Lennon and Ono storm Manhattan in intimate post-Beatles doc

  • ‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien

  • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream

  • Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter review – kitchen tyrant’s story

  • Private Footage review – found-footage study of apartheid takes the split-screen route

  • All the Mountains Give review – gripping portrait of smugglers on the Iran-Iraq border

  • Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One

  • Balomania review – those magnificent Brazilians and their flying balloons

March 2025

  • Living Together.

    Living Together review – how Austrians teach immigrants to find their place in society

  • Illustration by Lynsey Irvine/Observer Design of Donald Trump with film reels for hair and eyes.

    Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today

  • Man speaking into microphone

    From campus to police state: a new documentary goes inside the Columbia university protests

  • Sudanese artist Assil Diab in action.

    War Paint – Women at War review – female war artists get their moment in the spotlight

  • Academy apologises for failure to back Palestinian Oscar winner over attack

  • Academy board to meet as response to No Other Land director’s arrest decried

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