Documentary

Sven Pannell is the co-director director and subject of the documentary Act of Kindness which premieres at the NZ International Film festival next month. It follows his journey through Rwanda to find… Audio

In 2003 the lies of one man, Rafid Ahmed Alwan Al-Janabi, were used to unleash war on Iraq. Why did he do it? We ask Matthias Bittner the German filmmaker whose interview with Al-Janabi is the basis… Audio

This week on One in Five: One man's long quest for love. American artist and writer David Matthews spent years sticking quirky personal ads on lamp posts. It brought him some dates but nothing that… Video, Audio

Documentary filmmaker Crystal Moselle discusses her prize-winning film 'The Wolfpack', documenting the progress of seven children who emerge from a Lower East Side apartment having been confined there… Audio

Each year the Documentary Edge Festival receives hundreds of submissions from around the world, which are then whittled down to mere fifty or so: a rather compact number that also needs to cover a… Audio

Eryn Wilson of Auckland has chosen "Child in Time" by Deep Purple. Audio

Sound is emotional, images are informational, or so goes the old saying. And when you combine the two in a well-made feature film, you can make an audience laugh or cry. But is that appropriate or… Audio

The Pintupi Nine is a family of two woman, their four sons and 3 daughters who were known as the last Aboriginal group to live as Hunter Gatherers in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. The family… Audio

A new documentary called The Trouble With Murder is looking into how New Zealanders attitudes to punishing murderers has changed over the past six decades, along with the punishments available to the… Audio

AUT students' short documentaries - today: Barkley Manor. Audio

AUT student Brie Pryde takes on the sugar free diet. Audio

Previously on The Weekend we looked at the future for the New Zealand film Industry. This time it's the turn of New Zealand documentary makers. We talk to two of the best in this difficult business -… Audio

Simon Lamb is a Wellington scientist whose award-winning documentary about climate change is to be screened on American public television. The Associate Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University… Audio

A documentary about life aboard the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, is about to hit our shores. It's called 'The Surgery Ship' and it documents the life-changing experiences of patients… Audio

OMC's How Bizarre, co-written by the late Pauly Fuemana and producer Alan Jansson, topped the New Zealand charts, then repeated this success in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and Austria, as well as… Video, Audio

New Zealand filmmaker whose latest six-part observational series, The Slum, follows the lives of slum dwellers over six months in Manila's Tondo district and will screen on the Al Jazeera English… Audio

Stefano's Team is a documentary about a football mad Italian migrant, Stefano Virgili, who's brought his favourite game to rural Northland's Kaeo and through this has had a profound impact on the… Audio

Eighty-year-old writer, Jean Watson is an anonymous elderly woman living in a modest Wellington flat. But in southern India she is revered as the famous 'Jean Aunty'. Thirty years ago she sold her… Audio

American physicist who works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider based at CERN, and is featured in Particle Fever, a documentary screening at the New Zealand International Film… Audio

Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Kiwi director Florian Habicht speak on the making of the new Pulp documentary, how they came to work together and what the home crowd of Sheffield thought about it all on… Audio