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Documentary

April 2025

  • Charismatic villains … Lee Wenham in The Diamond Heist

    TV review
    The Diamond Heist review – Guy Ritchie’s thrilling tale of the failed Millennium Dome jewel robbery

  • Rev. Robert Schenck in The Dark Money Game

    ‘We’re on a knife edge’: Alex Gibney warns about the dangers of dark money

  • Tony Nicholls

    Other lives
    Tony Nicholls obituary

  • Peter Capaldi in a parka in Black Mirror

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Black Mirror; Doctor Who; What They Found; Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz; Reunion – review

  • Greenland documentary forces Danes to confront their colonial heritage

  • TV review
    Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing review – nothing about this shocking tale feels OK

  • Michael Sheen and Channel 4 questioned over ‘originality’ of debt documentary

March 2025

  • a road by the sea at night

    ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

  • A woman looks though printed photos of Brianna Ghey

    TV review
    Brianna: A Mother’s Story review – surely this exploitative documentary should not have been made

  • Clemency Burton-Hill at her home in Washington DC, March 2025.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Clemency Burton-Hill: ‘I can say now, after my brain injury, that music can save a life’

  • The old guard … Bob, Marcus, Dave and John at Mogden sewage works.

    TV review
    Thames Water: Inside the Crisis review – the public needs to see this foul mess

  • ‘I’ve had murderers try to find me. I’ve had armed people say they’ll shoot’ – Dan Reed on the fallout from his Michael Jackson films

  • TV review
    Stacey Dooley: Rape on Trial review – it’s impossible not to feel profound admiration for these brave women

  • ‘You get hooked so quickly!’ How Formula 1: Drive to Survive became the apex of TV documentaries

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: how Michael Sheen’s mega ‘debt heist’ helped hundreds of people

  • TV review
    The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed review – what sort of country would let the police do this?

  • Remote controls, tumble dryers, documentaries … do we have to make everything so complicated?

    Adrian Chiles

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: Tamara Lawrance is an ace detective in a Jamaica-set thriller

  • Surfers, sheep and sexual revolution: the film-makers who sold Australia to the world

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: how ‘skinny jabs’ became a cultural obsession

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