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Documentary films

November 2025

  • A film still from The Lost Boys of Mercury, of one of the survivors looking to the side

    The Lost Boys of Mercury review – heartbreaking film on the enduring wounds of church-school abuse

  • A still from The White House Effect

    ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

  • A woman looks out of a window, the reflection of outside showing on the glass

    There Was, There Was Not review – how four women’s dreams are destroyed by the shock of war

  • Film still: Fantaisie (2025) (Fantasy)
Director: Isabel Pagliai
France, 2025, Color, 79’

    Fantaisie review – study of a modern Ophelia swamped by audiovisual overwhelm

  • Peter Watkins: an English film-making revolutionary from a tradition of uncompromising radicalism

  • Peter Watkins obituary

  • Stream lover
    Frankenstein, Materialists and Pluribus: what’s new to streaming in Australia in November

  • Thai cave rescue diver Richard Harris devised an experiment. If it worked, he’d be a hero. If it didn’t, he could explode

  • Peter WatkinsEnglish film and television director Peter Watkins, UK, 12th February 1972.  (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90

    Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working
  • Still from Deeper documentary on the Thai rescue cave divers

    Deeper review – extreme cave diving documentary offers drama but lacks a little oomph

  • Jens Stoltenberg in Facing War, a documentary.

    Facing War review – cool customer of a Nato secretary general marshals world on the brink

  • A portrait of the actor David Gulpilil, one of Australia’s greatest screen actors.

    Journey Home, David Gulpilil review – an elegant celebration of one of Australia’s great actors

  • Kenny Dalglish celebrates after scoring the winning goal against Chelsea that gave Liverpool the Division One Championship for the 1985/86 season.

    Kenny Dalglish review – Liverpool’s everyman football hero who took the city’s woes on his shoulders

  • Rogue landlord Steve in Where Is Heaven?

    Where Is Heaven? review – absorbing ode to lovers of the off-grid life in rural Devon

  • A scene from In Waves and War.

    In Waves and War review – Navy Seals battle PTSD with psychedelic therapy

  • Heba in Blue Has No Borders

    Blue Has No Borders review – hunt for British identity in British seaside town maps the national psyche

    Director Jessi Gutch shadows seven Folkestonians from a Syrian refugee, to a drag artist and a Brexiter
  • Canuto’s Transformation.

    Canuto’s Transformation review – did a man really turn into a jaguar in Brazil’s remote forest?

    Ariel Kuaray Ortega’s complex docufiction sifts through the mysterious story of a man who, during the military tyranny, is said to have become a big cat
  • Writing Hawa.

    Writing Hawa review – Afghan woman fights for freedom as the Taliban close in

    Najiba Noori’s thought-provoking documentary follows her mother, finally getting her chance at autonomy just as the Taliban retake the country
  • Charlie s country Le pays de Charlie 2014 Real  Rolf De Heer David Gulpilil Collection Christophel © Bula bula Arts Aboriginal / Vertigo Productions / DRFHJHGX Charlie s country Le pays de Charlie 2014 Real  Rolf De Heer David Gulpilil Collection Christophel © Bula bula Arts Aboriginal / Vertigo Productions / DR

    Journey Home, David Gulpilil: the ‘extraordinary’ 4,000km, 10-month effort to return the actor home

  • Since founding Courtney’s House in 2008, Tina Frundt, 49, believes that her organization has helped about 2000 survivors of sex trafficking. Her current case load of 72 survivors means non-stop phone calls and texts, helping to find placement for people, get counseling for others, and lending an ear to some who just need to be heard.

    Rights and freedom
    Give me shelter: protecting trafficked children in the US - documentary

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