Favourite documentaries

A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.

FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-by's and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening. Austria freaked out. Thousands of screaming people gathered. Attacks with knifes, beatings, acid occurred. Political intrigues. Headlines all over Europe. 800,000 worldwide joined via internet. An incredibly heated week, capturing the European right-wing drift in real time. Democracy the hard way.

Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.

A propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.

Poetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.

An examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.

Simon Pummell's epic movie tells the story of a human life, using found footage from the last 100 years of cinema, cut to a powerful score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.

A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.

A sleepy village in Hungarian speaking Transylvania, the occupants well past eighty years old. The last place you would expect for scandal. Except here the last men left are desperately wooing the 25 widows, the process of which leads to many stories told both shocking and sweet...

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.

The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.

Three grandsons embark with their grannies on an anarchic journey into the past - a complex road movie about intergenerational dialogue in Great Britain, Germany and Hungary.

Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).

A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.

A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.

The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis.

Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

The consequences of exploiting technological and political ideas without understanding and concern for the outcome.

Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations.

Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.