Michael Apted obituary
Eclectic director of documentaries and feature films, from Seven Up! to James Bond
Michael Apted, 1941-2021: tributes paid to ‘visionary’ director of Up series
The film-maker, who has died aged 79, held up ‘a mirror to society’ with his pioneering documentaries
Michael Apted, director and Seven Up documentarian, dies at 79
British director made films Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World is Not Enough, and the long-running Up documentary series
Lorca, Hockney, Byatt, Berger – how Mike Dibb got the greats to open up
He’s revered for shooting Ways of Seeing with John Berger, but Mike Dibb has made films about all the giants of culture – as well as Wimbledon tennis balls. He looks back on a dazzling career
Curses! Nicolas Cage to examine history of swearwords for Netflix
The Oscar-winner will host six-part series, with each episode focusing on a single expletive
The week in TV: Waterhole; The Undoing; Inside Cinema, Raised by Wolves; Red, White and Blue
Chris Packham and Ella Al-Shamahi make a top team on the BBC’s enthralling African stakeout. Elsewhere, dramas great and small…
Baby God: how DNA testing uncovered a shocking web of fertility fraud
Quincy Fortier was once Nevada’s physician of the year. As unspooled in a new documentary, he had a dark secret: dozens of children fraudulently fathered through his fertility clinic
‘They were not born evil’: inside a troubling film on why people kill
In Alex Gibney’s documentaryt Crazy, Not Insane, the career of clinical psychiatrist Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis is explored, from her work with Ted Bundy to Arthur Shawcross
Samuel L Jackson: ‘A fullness comes upon me every time I land in Africa’
As their hard-hitting TV show Enslaved comes to an end, the star and his wife LaTanya Richardson talk about roots, race, revolution – and how to get rid of ‘the orange man’
‘He was murdered to silence him’: a shocking film on Jamal Khashoggi
Documentary Kingdom of Silence revisits the life and murder of the dissident journalist and the US-Saudi relationship underpinning both
Storm Over Brooklyn: retelling the devastating murder of Yusuf Hawkins
A new documentary revisits the story of a black teen killed by a white mob in 1989, with lessons for the present
Richard Bright obituary
Other lives: BBC arts documentary director and Werner Herzog’s executive producer
20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020
From climate change to Black Lives Matter, these are the films that best capture and explain what’s going on around us
Bully, coward, victim? Inside the sinister world of Trump mentor Roy Cohn
In a new documentary, film-maker Ivy Meeropol discusses the dark legacy of Roy Cohn and how his nefarious work affected her family
TV tonight: how prison can rehabilitate rather than just punish
A timely documentary looks at US prisoners, many of whom are from BAME communities, working to get degrees while incarcerated. Plus: Michaela Coel’s rollercoaster ride continues. Here’s what to watch this evening