Nick Broomfield: ‘I’ve always been fascinated by buildings and history’
The documentary-maker on how his love of architecture has inspired two new films about Liverpool and Cardiff
50 documentaries you need to see
Ten of the best nonfiction film-makers today choose their own favourites, from serial killer stories to meta pranks.
My 200 years of family fortunes
Film-maker Joseph Bullman followed the fortunes of several families from the 19th century, to find out how their descendants are faring today
Becoming Mike Nichols: new HBO film is fitting tribute to a great director
Documentary shows Nichols discussing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate before a New York theater audience, shortly before his death in 2014
Tuesday’s best TV: A Life on Screen – Stephen Fry; Gareth Malone’s Great Choir Reunion; David Beckham: For the Love of the Game
A celebration of Britain’s favourite Really Clever Bloke, the life-changing power of song and a footballer fixing the world
Love you to death: the British women dying at the hands of their partners
A new film recognises the 86 women murdered in Britain by their husband, boyfriend or male ex-partner in 2013
Michael Rosenberg obituary
Wildlife film-maker whose series such as Fragile Earth educated audiences about conservation
The Dressmaker and Mad Max: Fury Road dominate Aactas, the Aussie Oscars
Jocelyn Moorhouse’s period drama and George Miller’s glorious return to the blockbuster franchise top award nominations
Australian Black Panther Marlene Cummins: ‘I’m over women who speak on behalf of us’
The Indigenous activist and artist says institutional racism, failures in feminism and Australia’s history of ‘demonising black men’ has led to silence over abuse
BBC’s British Vogue documentary to be made by Oscar-winning producer
Series offering ‘unprecedented access’ to magazine will be produced by Simon Chinn, who won Academy awards for Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar Man
Peter Sisam obituary
Other lives: Photographer who worked on pioneering documentary films
From dogging to Bob Marley: Vanessa Engle’s favourite documentaries
Vanessa Engle, director of new series Inside Harley Street, picks our her favourite documentaries
Autism in film: X+Y is audacious – but is it cliched or the real deal?
In X+Y, a gifted young man prepares for a mathematics contest. Does it, and films like it, misrepresent or empower those who are on the autistic spectrum?
India news channel in on-air protest against rape documentary ban
NDTV, stopped from showing India’s Daughter, displays largely blank screen during hour-long slot with text describing reactions to the film and its ban
The aristo and the spiv: the true story of the men behind the Who
Pop impresarios are often the hidden power behind the biggest acts, now two films turn spotlight on Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp