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Documentary films

June 2026

  • A woman in a blue top sits among framed photographs, resting her head on her hand

    ‘I only had this father, and he’s gone’: Wafa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for Syria’s missing

  • Peter Asher in his office

    Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’

  • Jessie Buckley in The Bride! and Ian McKellen in The Christophers

    Best culture of 2026 so far
    The best films of 2026 so far

  • A still from How to Feed a Dictator showing a chef in front of a roasted animal

    ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?

  • Aiden’s story of life as a young carer | Is Mum OK? Documentary

  • Aiden's story of life as a young carer | Is Mum OK? Documentary

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  • Time and Water review – Iceland’s doomed glacier tells its own story of climate disaster

  • My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs

  • ‘A Pavarotti rebirth’: the Samoan tenor taking over the world’s most gilded opera stages

  • Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict

  • Acting review – Cheek by Jowl masterclass in how to strut and fret upon the Shakespearean stage

  • Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics

  • The Guest review – the risks of protecting refugees in the Poland-Belarus danger zone

May 2026

  • Lucrecia Martel standing in a doorway wearing dark clothes and sunglasses and holding a walking stick

    ‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing

  • A still from Ask E Jean

    ‘The avalanche of slime has been unbelievable’: E Jean Carroll shares life post-Trump in new film

  • A sports team in green jerseys huddles together with arms around each other, colourful buildings visible behind

    No Place for Football review – battling ice and snow to play the beautiful game in Greenland

  • A woman with a straw hat and white shirt talks to an Indigenous man with a red shirt.

    Landmarks review – Lucrecia Martel’s beautiful account of an Indigenous murder case

  • No Winter Holidays review – haunting portrait of female companionship in Nepal’s frozen highlands

  • Jeff Bezos calls Amazon’s $40m Melania film ‘a good business decision’

  • The Balloonists review – divas and disasters in tale of first round-the-world hot-air balloon flight

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