Documentaries
An ordinary day became extraordinary: that’s the key to this elegant series
You Can’t Ask That’s Kirk Docker and long-time collaborator Aaron Smith hit the bullseye again in their latest interview show I Was Actually There.
- by Debi Enker
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Five documentaries that explore the hidden lives of famous actors
Like Brats - a recent look at the ‘Hollywood Brat Pack’ - these projects tried to understand their stars, by gently lifting the masks.
- by Scott Murray
The darkness that drove one of Hollywood’s brightest stars
Faye Dunaway was a luminous beauty and an incredibly powerful performer, but mental illness was the engine that drove her, a new documentary reveals.
- by Karl Quinn
Man of the moments: You Can’t Ask That team return, and this time it’s personal
I Was Actually There revisits big moments in Australian history with eyewitnesses, and makes for riveting viewing.
- by Karl Quinn
This documentary is the most revealing exploration of a musician’s art you’ll ever see
Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney was given one instruction by Paul Simon: “The music has to sound good.”
- by Tom Ryan
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Becoming a Celine Dion fan had nothing to do with her songs
A funny thing happened last Thursday night. I fell in love with a singer I’d always shunned.
- by Michael Ruffles
Ahead of the Tour de France, here are the cycling shows you should watch
There are some gripping shows to catch before the world’s two biggest cycling races for male and female cyclists.
- by Garry Maddox
Affable and curious, Tony Armstrong hits the road in this neat ABC series
In Extra-Ordinary Things, the ABC News Breakfast sports reporter sets out to find objects from the past that illustrate Australia’s unique history.
- by Craig Mathieson
This remarkable documentary is filmed on a barge for psychiatric patients
Nicolas Philibert, the director of On the Adamant, rewrites the conventions of the documentary in the Berlin Film Festival-winning On The Adamant.
- by Tom Ryan
Every life matters in this remarkable documentary set in a Paris psychiatric centre
Nicolas Philibert is the director of On the Adamant, which observes the comings and goings of patients at a centre located on a barge in central Paris.
- by Tom Ryan
This moving doco is more than just a history of the ANZACs in Gallipoli
What happened on the island of Lemnos in 1915 is a moving account of humanity in the midst of catastrophe.
- by Ben Pobjie