Film
The anticapitalist streaming service taking on Netflix
This is Means TV — Means TV is the world’s first ‘post-capitalist, worker-owned streaming service’, providing subscribers with leftist documentaries, films and cartoons. But in an industry run by big business and billionaires, can it really survive?
Written by: Daisy Schofield
In the age of lockdown, are drive-in cinemas the future?
Back to the ’50s — With social distancing measures enforced across the world, the film industry has taken a huge hit. But against the odds, a handful of independent drive-ins across the US have adapted to stay alive. Is this the start of a comeback?
Written by: Beth Webb
The best documentaries you can watch now (for free)
You’ve got the time — The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam has opened its archives, with over 300 films available to stream for free. We picked out some of the best.
Written by: Kambole Campbell
A surreal study of injustice in the Brazilian outback
Welcome to Bacurau — Part-Western and part-thriller, Bacurau tells the story of a small town plagued by strange happenings.
Written by: Zoe Whitfield
Uncovering the truth behind Chechnya‘s homophobic purges
The real story — In his new documentary, David France went undercover to tell the story of the people helping the LGBTQ+ community escape persecution in the southern Russian state.
Written by: Katie Goh
The home of UK counterculture is facing closure
Save The Horse Hospital — One of London’s longest-running independent arts venues has been hit with a 440 per cent rent increase, and will be forced to closed at the end of March.
Written by: Guy Sangster-Adams
A journey through Mexico’s spiralling healthcare crisis
Midnight family — A new documentary examines the lack of government funding in the country, and the citizens who have been forced to pick up the slack.
Written by: Zoe Whitfield
How Robert Eggers made this year’s strangest film
To The Lighthouse — The New Hampshire filmmaker’s second feature is a psychological two-hander about two warring lighthouse keepers. To mark its UK release, he tells us why it probably won’t be for everybody.
Written by: Josh Slater-Williams
Fire Starters: the women fighting to be vikings
Huck docs — Fire Starters is a new Huck film that follows two young women as they try to gain access to the all-male fire festival, Up Helly Aa.
Written by: Huck
The twin brothers who paddled from Alaska to Mexico
2,300 miles – by hand — In 2016, after a lifetime spent trying to outdo each other, Ryan and Casey Higginbotham embarked on a journey that would push them to their absolute limits – one that could only be completed if they worked as a team.
Written by: Alice Austin