In recent years, documentaries detailing the most disturbing and crucial problems facing our world have been released for public viewing. Thanks to these documentaries, people are more aware of issues including but not limited ...
This month sees the UK release of The Salt of the Earth, the production from film-maker Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club) that documents the life of Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado. Originally released in Frenc...
In developed countries, an abundance of cheap, delicious food means that the biggest question many of us face is how to choose what we’d like for dinner from so many available options. But do we know where our food really com...
Since their advent, documentaries’ purpose has been to inform, and to make us think about things in new ways. In the quest to gather and record history, forever capturing moments in time, documentarians have travelled the glo...
In December 2010 the Arab Spring began spreading across North Africa and Middle East. The autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have been overthrown. In Syria the civil uprising began in January 2011 when police assaulte...
Planned Obsolescence – “A manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period.” The Light Bulb Conspiracy takes us back to the 192...