Dark Tourist
‘Dark tourism’ is the travel to and exploration of locations which are historically related to demise or devastation. This variety of places are precisely what New Zealand-born journalist David Farrier…
Michael Palin in North Korea
It is fair to assume that a documentary focused on a country with frequent human rights violations would be a political one. However, from the first episode of Michael Palin…
Faces Places
“Chance has always been my best assistant”, the inimitable Agnès Varda intones towards the beginning of her newest film essay, Faces Places. Varda’s career is a gorgeous synthesis of innovative…
Girls Incarcerated
Girls Incarcerated is a new docuseries, recently added to Netflix. It consists of eight episodes made up of footage filmed over a year. The episodes introduce us to various girls…
Resistance – a documentary about antibiotic resistance
“Antibiotics were the only thing we ever had in all of human history that really stopped infectious diseases, and we just took this miraculous thing and just completely squandered it.…
Why Stacey Dooley represents the best of investigative journalism
Content warning: sexual abuse, rape and domestic violence. TV Presenter Stacey Dooley is perhaps the most engaging female investigative journalist working in Britain today. Bursting onto screens in 2009 as…
Chasing Coral: chilling dystopian footage that is unfortunately very real
Visualise masses of coral in striking shades of fluorescent blue, neon pink and radiant emerald stretching out as far as the eye can see. Now visualise these corals turning white,…
Louis Theroux on anorexia: shattering misconceptions?
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has to be one of the most merciless, deadly and incomprehensible. With the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder and statistics suggesting that…