Documentary

These children did not matter

A fine film exposes grooming gangs and their enablement

Artillery Row
Take the Bizkit

How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016

On Pop
Mansplaining womanhood

What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion

Artillery Row
9/11 confidential

This 9/11 documentary gained extraordinary access to the key decision makers, deploying the material with skill and confidence

On Television
Star of the sty

Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast

On Cinema
Editors deserve more credit

Christopher Silvester on the essential, and undervalued, part editors play in film and documentary creation

On Cinema
A trauma that never ends

Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war

On Television