Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach review – power, passion and an embarrassing McDonald’s ad

The steely film-maker finds the camera turned on him in a documentary that uncovers both his softer side and parts of his oeuvre he’d rather forget. Plus, a deep-dive look at Tom Daley. Could he be Team GB’s redeemer?

On my radar: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s cultural highlights

The actor and singer on Edgar Degas, a great documentary about Nina Simone, Budapest’s brilliant Turkish baths and Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes

All You Need Is Love review: a glorious reminder of how pop docs used to be

Stuffed with amazing footage, this magisterial history of pop – partly narrated by Liberace, partly written by Stephen Sondheim – got more than a little help from John Lennon’s contacts book

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