‘People opened up because I’m the Beavis and Butt-head guy’: Mike Judge on his new funk direction

The writer-director’s comedies – from Office Space to Silicon Valley – always sum up the spirit of their times. So why has he made an LSD-soaked cartoon about George Clinton and Bootsy Collins?

Lockdown watch: Garth Marenghi creator Matthew Holness on appropriate horror – and its antidote

Continuing our series in which artists suggest self-isolation cinema, the man behind Darkplace on why pandemic-related movies require music documentary offset

After Truth: how ordinary people are ‘radicalized’ by fake news

An eye-opening documentary traces the terrifying trajectory of disinformation, from Jade Helm to Pizzagate to Russian interference in the 2016 election

‘Do not despair of losing so often’ – Lea Tsemel, the Israeli lawyer who defends Palestinians

She has been called a traitor and the Israeli government tried to block an award-winning new film about her work and spirit. As the BBC screens Advocate, we meet the ‘angry optimist’

Michael Proudfoot obituary

Other lives: Maker of engaging television documentaries

The Goop Lab review – so Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t know what a vagina is

Like the star’s wellness brand, this whole show is a demented paean to self-indulgence. And for someone peddling health treatments, she seems alarmingly ignorant about anatomy

TV tonight: Prince Andrew’s accuser speaks out

Virginia Giuffre gives her first interview on British TV. Plus: the horrific effects of austerity on British children. Here’s what to watch this evening

Peter Adam obituary

Film-maker and television producer who made more than 100 documentaries on art and culture

‘She belongs to everyone’: Diane von Furstenberg’s Statue of Liberty documentary

Liberty: Mother of Exiles, starring the famed designer, traces the statue’s history, from its basis on a Muslim woman to its role in protest imagery

‘A defining story of our time’: the film-maker giving a face to family separation

In documentary Torn Apart, Ellen Goosenberg Kent tells the story of two mothers, detained from their children, seeking a better life in the US

Streaming: 50 years of the Troubles

Channel 4’s timely exploration of Northern Ireland on screen is a reminder of some fine films about the Troubles

Kathy Burke: ‘After I got sick, the toughest thing was what it did to my mental health’

The actor has made a documentary series about women’s lives today. She discusses power, single life and why being skinny didn’t make her happy

Ken Burns on America: ‘We’re a strange and complicated people’

Through war, baseball and music, Burns’ monumental TV documentaries have told the story of the USA – a mission he says is even more urgent in the age of ‘alternative facts’

Nick Fraser: ‘Documentaries can change the world’

As his book on the history of factual film is published, the former Storyville editor reveals his favourite docs and books

Streaming: Scorsese’s freewheeling Dylan doc

Martin Scorsese is in playful mode with Rolling Thunder Revue, an intimate portrait of a 1970s Bob Dylan tour