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The Guardian documentary

The Guardian's award-winning strand for new documentaries, from some of the best filmmakers around the world

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    My Brother’s Keeper: a former Guantánamo detainee, his guard and their unlikely friendship

  • My Brother’s Keeper: a former Guantánamo detainee, his guard and their unlikely friendship - video

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    Untold Chaos: living through Libya's wars – documentary

  • Untold Chaos: living through Libya's wars – documentary

  • Image from Bright Lights documentary

    Bright Lights: one woman's devastating 25-year addiction to gambling – video

  • Still from Bright Lights animated documentary

    Bright Lights: an animated exploration of the devastating grip of poker machines

  • Guardian Documentary: Lupita

    Lupita: the indigenous activist leading a new generation of Mexican women

    Twenty years after Lupita lost her family in the Acteal massacre in southern Mexico, she has become a spokesperson for her people in a Mexican indigenous movement led by women
  • Ana Cecilia Vasquez with camera

    Lupita: the powerful voice of one indigenous woman leading a movement

    Film-maker Monica Wise talks about making her documentary about Mexican resistance
  • Lupita: the indigenous activist leading a new generation of Mexican women – video

    Twenty years after Lupita lost her family in the Acteal massacre in southern Mexico, she has become a spokesperson for her people in a Mexican indigenous movement led by women​

  • Expedition 62 flight engineer Jessica Meir hovers for a portrait in the weightless environment of the International Space Station.

    'We experienced the pandemic on Earth and they were experiencing it in orbit'

    Film-makers Alina Manolache and Vladimir Potop on how they made the Guardian documentary 2020: A Covid Space Odyssey
  • Wolf in Norway

    The Wolf Dividing Norway: the hunter v the environmentalist

  • The wolf hunt leader, Arne Sveen, after the hunt

    The Wolf Dividing Norway: filming the hunt

  • Colette: former French Resistance member confronts fascism and family trauma after 75 years

  • Director Anthony Giacchino and producer Alice Doyard filming Colette on location.

    'I'll never be the same again': facing family trauma in a Nazi concentration camp

  • Filmmaker Sky Neal on location in St Just, Cornwall

    Lessons from a small town: resilient community is key to sustainability

    Filmmaker Sky Neal returns to her hometown in Cornwall to capture a community fighting to keep the local economy alive in the face of the Covid lockdown
  • On the set of No Ball Games, directed by Charlotte Regan

    No ball games: life and play through the eyes of children across the UK – documentary

    Shifting from rural Wales to post-industrial Teesside and inner-city London, this film celebrates the imagination and resourcefulness of its young subjects
  • No ball games: life and play through the eyes of children across the UK – video

    Shifting from rural Wales to post-industrial Teesside and inner-city London, this film celebrates the imagination and resourcefulness of its young subjects

  • Filmmaker Charlotte Regan on the set of No Ball Games

    The games children play: why we let kids take over our film

    Filmmaker Charlotte Regan explains how she took her cue from the children she made her film about
  • Samiya Dubed being interviewed on the set of Somalinimo

    Somalinimo: young, gifted and Somali... and at Cambridge

  • Guardian Documentary 'Somalinimo'

    Somalinimo: Somali culture, blackness and Islam at Cambridge University

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