documentary

  • Just Gender

    Just Gender

    Just Gender from writer/director George Zuber must easily qualify as the most successful documentary on explaining the whole transgender spectrum in a language that perfectly articulates the phenomena, and in such a manner that enlightens and educates us all.  The first surprising discovery is the very fact that Zuber made this in 2013 and although…

  • Take My Nose …. Please!

    Take My Nose …. Please!

    This thoroughly entertaining documentary goes out of its way to reassure us all that cosmetic surgery really is the way to go especially if we want to hang on to our youth just a tad longer than nature cruelly intends we cannot. The film is by an expert on he topic as it is the…

  • They Don’t Just Dance : the Afghan tradition of recruiting young boys for sex

    They Don’t Just Dance : the Afghan tradition of recruiting young boys for sex

      It is not often a narrator  of a  TV documentary makes no attempt whatsoever to hide his disdain of the subject matter, but this is a  very notable exception.  It’s a profile of Afghan men who act as predators and recruit boys as young as 12 years old to dress up as girls and…

  • David Bowie : a look at  ‘The Last 5 Years’

    David Bowie : a look at ‘The Last 5 Years’

    A trailer has just been released of David Bowie: The Last Five Years  a stunning new documentary with some never-before-seen footage which looks primarily at Bowie’s recordings and release of his final two albums, The Next Day and Blackstar.  Directed and produced by documentarian Francis Whately, who also made David Bowie : Five Years in 2013.…