5 Star Docu-film Yangon Calling, Punx 4 Life.
I’ve been a punk since 1977 and we were anti-establishment, but “God Save the Queen, a fascist regime.” was our battle cry, not with the threat of imprisonment for your views. But in Yangon, Myanmar, a real threat of disappearing without trace is constant, never mind talking to foreign journalists, trying to tell…more
Cert U | 72 mins | 2011
3 Star Documentation of a life lost.
Director Tetsuaki Matsue (Annyong Kimchi) puts together what didgeridoo artist Goma has forgotten.
This documentary charts the career of a 20 year old didgeridoo player, using photo’s and home-made film footage as well as his live performances and his busking around the globe.
This film is for the serious percussion fans, as the entire 72mins…more
Cert U | 83 mins | 2010
4 Star Mongolian Documentary.
Passion, is an in-depth film about Binder Jigjid, a man struggling across Mongolia trying to show his film “Human Traffic” as they follow in the footsteps of his father. Binder is a man that has truly suffered for his craft, after spending a whole day in a freezing river led to him becoming a hunchback. A great story…more
Cert 15 | 240 mins | 2015
5 stars for this compelling and highly educational insight into British history.
Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets is directed by James Tovell and presented by Dan Jones, the author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England, the book upon which the series is based.
It documents the rise of the Plantagenet Dynasty to the throne, right through two hundred and fifty…more
Cert 15 | 67 mins | 2014
4 Star Documentary, Ice, Mountain, Isolated.
Director/ Executive producer Charlotte Purdy (60 Minutes) brings us the chilling tale of Air New Zealand’s DC-10 flight 901, a sight seeing flight over Antarctica.
On the 28th of November 1979 the Dc-10 was flying over the ice sheets of the Antarctic, we hear the co-pilot asking his superior where is Mount Erebus, the pilot to…more
Cert PG | 119 mins | 2014
4 stars for this fascinating docu-drama about the great Severiano Ballesteros.
This latest biography is written by Tom Hodgson and directed by John-Paul Davidson (Stephen Fry In America, Brazil With Michael Palin).
The way in which it is presented is quite unusual, but very interesting and works really well. It takes the form of stock footage of many of Seve’s finest performances…more
Cert 12 | 91 mins | 2014
4 Star Documentary of Entrepreneur Vs the US DEA
Directors Tony Gerber, (Full Battle Rattle) and Maxim Pozdorovkin, (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) know how to do an in-depth documentary and this delivers the story of a man languishing in a US prison for 25 year for intending to do something (I think something we are all guilty of).
A story of…more
