Documentaries

  • Pokémon Go

    The app that turns your phone into a handheld surveillance camera and tracks your location

  • On the differences between man and machine

    Werner Herzog explores and challenges the net – as the dreamy documentarist he continues to be.

  • Images of voids in black ink

    Monthly steaming for subscribers: Is it possible to be forgiven for abandoning your children in order to fight for a higher end?

  • Inaccurate about Scandinavian loneliness

    Do our individualistic lifestyles really make us happy?

  • On making a covenant with Putin

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to nine years in a POW (prisoner of war) camp in 2003, and received an additional six years in 2010.…

  • On rejecting a Putin covenant

    Where Khodorkovsky, in the end, surrenders to the pressure and signs a deal with Putin, Nemtsov is without compromise. We know the result.

  • Green feminism and organic diversity

    The green voices of feminism are diverse, critical to society and activists, as featured in the eco-documentary Feed the Green. They are also unified…

  • A concise look at the Russian soul

    The magnificent images of snow covered coastal landscapes, endless birch forests, ice, frosty smoke and gloomy nights provide an insight into the harsh conditions…

  • New York Review of Books

    The documentary The 50 Year Argument is a celebration of one of literature’s most influential institutions, but could have benefitted from a more critical…

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