Welcome to the 21st Century Colliseum. Many scores have past since we, as a species, enjoyed a little human suffering as entertainment. Johnny Knoxville find out more...

The incredible story of the irrepressible Dieter Dengler, a German born pilot in the U.S. navy who was shot down, captured, tortured and interred in a POW camp during the beginning of the Vietnam war. One of the few American prisoners to escape such captivity, Dengler accompanies Werner Herzog to Laos to recreate his remarkable story in this fascinating documentary that manages through Herzog's inimitable style and Dengler's preternatural optimism and humour to transcend it's unsettling subje find out more...

This is a very good deconstruction of the political polemicist Michael Moore, a man who's made a lot of money out of feeding liberals entertainment and whose cupboard rattles with skeletons. The film goes into a number of details of gross inaccuracies, and betrayals of the people he pertains to support, in order to further his career. In particular we learn about lies told in 'Roger and Me', eg about the supposed apathy of the locals and about being unable to talk to Roger. We hear about the len find out more...

Given the fact that this is a movie about one of the most self righteous, corporately minded bands in recent memory undergoing group therapy, one would be forgiven for expecting a festival of chuckles at the group's expense. It comes as quite a surprise that not only does it engage the viewer on a more serious and empathic level than you might expect, but the twists and turns of the band's fortunes, together with the seemingly machiavellian attempts by certain members to manipulate others, make find out more...

A superb documentary about non-mainstream cinema from the late 60s and 70s. The six much discussed movies are El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, Pink Flamingos, The Harder They Come, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Eraserhead. Talking heads include the stars listed above/below. A tribute to celluloid. find out more...

An engaging and thought provoking documentary following the vascillating fortunes of Marla Olmstead, a toddler from Binghamton, New York State, who took the modern art world by storm in 2004. With her abstract canvases fetching thousands of dollars little Marla became a media darling and her parents became wealthy, but, when a profile on '60 Minutes' questions whether her father, himself a keen amateur artist, had more than a guiding hand in the paintings, the Olmstead family find themselves ens find out more...

‘Fast, Fair and Balanced'. So the FOX News credo goes. This compelling (if slightly overcooked) documentary about the systematic bias inherent in Murdoch's Neo-Conservative news channel is a must see to anyone with a passing interest in how They take Their news over There. From explaining how FOX's misinformation led to a massive percentage of its viewers believing there was a proven link between Iraq and Al Quaeda to a sensational interview with the belligerent Bill O'Reilly chastising the son find out more...

The follow-up to the astounding ‘Paradise Lost’. More and more, especially forensic, evidence comes to light that the non-existent case against the 3 is just that. Much of the film focuses on the prime alternative suspect, the step-father of one of the murdered children, a dangerously barking Church-going redneck, but the rightwing local state bureaucracy don't want to know, they've already got their man (sorry children). Damien, Jason and Jessie have matured visibly in prison, with Damien perha find out more...

TIn 1993 the naked and mutilated bodies of three 8-year-old boys where found in a shallow creek near the sleepy redneck Arkansas town of Robin Hood Hills. The ensuing police investigation soon focused on three local teens who dressed in black, had vaguely non-Christian beliefs and enjoyed heavy metal music. A rushed investigation and the pitiful court case that followed were all filmed with unprecedented access by a HBO documentary crew who came to believe that the three suspects were victims of find out more...

An investigative documentary by Shane O'Sullivan that examines the events of that fateful night in 1968 and presents compelling theories that suggest the killer, Sirhan Sirhan, was not working alone. The problem with O'Sullivan's case is that though the motives to kill Robert Kennedy were strong amongst the right-wing Cuban (anti-Castro) clique who'd infiltrated the CIA, and the gringo militaristic clique who ran them, the evidence presented is, though not unconvincing, circumstantial and would find out more...