Documentary

Dan Shanan, the founder of Doc Edge Film Festival introduces the 2016 event which features some of the best music documentaries on offer this year. The festival opens with Be Here Now which follows… Audio

Prime TV's Decades in Colour is a documentary series charting New Zealand's social history through three decades of home movies - from the 1950s to the 1970s. Presented by Judy Bailey and features… Audio, Gallery

Maori TV's Hautoa Ma: The Rise of Māori Cinema places recent major films like The Dark Horse, Whale Rider, Eagle vs Shark, Boy, The Dead Lands, and the soon to be released Mahana in the wider… Audio

The New Zealand documentary, Tickled, has premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah, overnight New Zealand time. It looks into the the bizarre world of Competitive Endurance… Audio

Lara discusses the last ever episode of 3D. Also, Blunt Talk on SoHo, about sitcom about a TV cable news show starring Patrick Stewart and Wayward Pines on Prime - a US sci-fi mystery starring Matt… Audio

Lara discusses the documentary The Art of Recovery by Peter Young. Audio

Lara discusses two recent documentaries: NZ Women in Rock on Prime, and the Women of Pike River on TV One. Audio

The documentary released this week which follows the story of the man who went from being 'fat-shamed' online, to becoming the poster boy for anti-bullying campaigners. Audio

Now the Christchurch Town Hall rebuild is officially happening, a rare opportunity has come up to see the original plans from 1968.The Warren & Mahoney drawings are kept in the MacMillan Brown… Audio

The first feature length documentary filmed entirely on smartphones is being made - by teenagers and about teenagers. The project, titled My Weekend, will be shot in the next few months. The film's… Audio

It's Dannevirke's answer to Disneyland, and now a documentary about the 'labyrinth of animatronic curisosities', is free to watch online. Filmmakers Michelle Savill and Matt Henley delved into the… Audio

Jyoti Singh, a physiotherapy student, was brutally gang-raped and tortured to death by six men in a moving bus in New Delhi on December 16, 2012. The crimes against the 23-year-old led to widespread… Audio

Phil Wallington talks about the TV2 documentary Gloriavale: Life and Death, and TV3's upcoming current affairs programme Story. Audio

This week is the world premiere of The Women of Pike River. The documentary profiles six women directly affected by the Pike River mine disaster, when 29 men died in a series of explosions in November… Audio

Emmy Award-winning director, writer and producer whose new documentary, Belief: the Possession of Janet Moses, is screening throughout the country at the New Zealand International Film Festivals. Video, Audio

For the last 29 years, LA Times restaurant reviewer Jonathan Gold has been revealing the best of Los Angeles in weekly instalments. He was the first reviewer to step out of the five star restaurants… Audio

Turner Ross and his brother Bill create lo-fi documentaries documenting little-heard but uniquely American stories. Turner Ross told Shaun D Wilson about their non-fiction take on the western genre… Audio

The way many New Zealand children in state care were abused and victimised is explored in a new TV documentary inspired by the memoir of writer David Cohen. Writer and producer David White read David… Audio