Al Gore finds life after the politically crushing embarrassment that was his tenure as vice president and, frankly, it's unlikely he will experience another point as high as his achievement in this profound, engaging and, mercifully, clear documentary on the consequences of our complacent greed. That ‘An Inconvenient Truth' provides little in the way of true revelations pertaining to the earth's (humanity's) looming ecological demise, and ignores some of the more profound problems of trapped car find out more...

A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution.

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Another unusual offering from Luc "The Big Blue" Besson. A fascinating "Koyaanisqatsi" style journey through the strange and mysterious world of our planet's seas. Accompanied by a stylish score, the lives of some strange creatures, and some incredible sea-scapes are explored. Very unusual. find out more...

Three documentaries; the first, set in New Guinea, about the stunningly handsome birds of paradise and those marvellous architects the bower birds. The second, and best of the three, is from Attenborough's youth and involves a successful anthropological trip into the New Guinea mountains to make first contact with some of the isolated hills people living there. In the third our hero tracks down the origin of a beautiful statuette he bought at auction and takes us to Easter Island with its fabulo find out more...

The first episode deals entirely with bower birds, the artists of the natural world, and their incredibly decorated nests/bowers. The second episode examines animal noises, birds singing, whales calling, apes vocalising, and speculates about the origins of human music. The third episode is a biography of Sir David, largely across his years as the presenter of BBC Wildlife, and includes many of the highlights of those years. Ace stuff. find out more...

Following Cobain from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surrou find out more...

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

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'Until now, we've only touched the surface', that's what they say anyway. Apparently there's a lot of undiscovered stuff down in the deep blue sea that up until now, mankind just hasn't had the know-how to get a look at. Expect to see stuff that will have you leaping out of your armchair, shouting 'What the bloody hell is that?!' and 'Jesus, that thing looks like a bogey with fairy lights on it!'. One thing which threw me was the total absence of David Attenborough, his replacement is Michael Ga find out more...

The film focuses on three particular animals; polar bears struggling to survive, a herd of elephants crossing the Kalahari desert to the Okavango Delta, including the now famous shots of a group of lions attacking a lone elephant, and a humpback whale and her calf migrating from tropical waters to the Antarctic. find out more...

Timothy Treadwell was quite a guy, a self appointed crusader and protector for the grizzly bears of Alaska, his commitment over thirteen summers was without doubt, though his motives and methods were perhaps more confused. What Herzog has created from Treadwell's copious footage is a stunning wildlife documentary in which the observer is as fascinating as his beloved subjects; in fact Treadwell is a perfect real life example of the damaged, obsessive characters in a number of Herzog's films, and find out more...