All the Empty Rooms, Oscar winning short documentary

All the Empty Rooms is a hard-hitting documentary of only 35 minutes. It's about the empty rooms left behind by children killed in school shootings. […]

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Mr Nobody Against Putin wins the best documentary Oscar

Primary school teacher Pavel Talankin’s record of the indoctrination of his pupils to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine beats contenders

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‘You cannot unsee it’: what happened next for this year’s Oscar documentary nominees?

Films about prison abuse, ovarian cancer, women’s rights in Iran and more have impressed the Academy, but what real-world impact have they had?

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Breaking Social review – Rutger Bregman leads an irresistible rallying cry for global activism

Fredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality – while Bregman’s nuggets of wisdom are a joy

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‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile

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Baz Luhrmann: ‘There’s the image of Elvis and then there’s the man’

The singular director has made a second film about the King of Rock and Roll and this time audiences will get to see a side of him they’ve never seen before

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‘I’ve never been so frightened’: the veteran reporter who turned his lens on the empty bedrooms of school shooting victims

The director of an Oscar-nominated documentary that goes into the bedrooms of children killed in US school shootings on why it was his most daunting challenge to date – and the hard task of encouraging people to see it

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Man on the Run review – archival delve into Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles era is a welcome revisit

After the Fab Four fell and Wings took flight, McCartney embodied a strange, stylised sense of uncool, which would become bestselling success. A new documentary of old material memorialises his second coming

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Frederick Wiseman brought a uniquely empowering scale to his immersive documents of ordinary life https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/17/frederick-wiseman-death-empowering-immersive-documentaries #Film #FrederickWiseman #DocumentaryFilms #Culture
Frederick Wiseman brought a uniquely empowering scale to his immersive documents of ordinary life

His maximal studies of US institutions such as welfare bureaucracy and an intensive care unit were packed with human detail and free from explicit commentary

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Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96

Recognised with an honorary Academy Award in 2016, Wiseman directed and produced almost 50 films with a lifelong commitment to curiosity and naturalism

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