5 d. ago Riefenstahl proves that the best documentary subjects are monsters

The Nazi propagandist is seen in a startling new film repeatedly refusing to talk about her relationship with Hitler – and it’s the kind of upset that has always fuelled cinema’s very best documentaries, writes Xan Brooks

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1 week ago Netflix's The Diamond Heist: Release date and true story behind new Guy Ritchie documentary

An audacious heist that rocked London 25 years ago is the subject of a new Netflix documentary

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3 w. ago Inside Andy Kaufman: SNL’s strange genius with an unsettling dark side

The unconventional star of ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Taxi’ is the subject of a brilliant new documentary film. Stevie Chick looks back at the life and work of one of comedy’s true originals

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3 w. ago It was one of history’s deadliest tornados. Now Netflix have made a documentary about it

The horror of the 2011 Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film

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3 w. ago Netflix documentary about Missouri tornado revisits one of the deadliest twisters in the US

The horror of the 2011 Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film

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4 w. ago Happy Face review – Dennis Quaid is a grinning caricature in this shoddy, half

This (sort of) true-crime series about a real-life serial killer’s daughter is deeply disappointing TV – even before you factor in the terrible script and flat actingPerhaps, like politicians’ careers, all intellectual property must eventually end in failure. You begin in one medium – a viral video on social media, perhaps, which brings your story to the attention of the masses and the makers of a podcast; then on to a streamed drama or documentary, maybe knocking out a book on the subject as you go. But eventually it hits a wall. The new translation doesn’t work, it’s running on empty, it doesn’t capture interest, the moment has passed. People get bored, they move on, and that’s the end of your IP’s journey.The new true-crime drama Happy Face, created by Jennifer Cacicio and executive-produced by the mighty Robert and Michelle King (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil, Elsbeth), began life as a book – Shattered Silence, the 2009 autobiography of Melissa Moore, in which sh...

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