Documentary

Justin Pemberton started his career directing music videos and music television, before setting up his own documentary production company in his 20s with fellow filmmakers. Audio

Famously unafraid of awkward moments, and incurably curious, filmmaker Louis Theroux has been making BAFTA award winning documentaries for over twenty years. He has specialised in immersing himself in… Audio

Central to The Soul, directed by Bill Morris, is a snapshot of Central Otago today through the eyes of touring artists and residents. He speaks to Jim about the genesis for the film and how performers… Audio

Imagine getting right into the middle of a true story developing around you while you're listening. That's the narrative approach taken in' The Untold', a BBC show telling stories about life in modern… Audio

Muslim director Deeyah Khan's spent the last part of her career looking at extremism in both white supremacist movements as well as Islamic groups. She speaks to Paul about her work. Audio

Soldiers Without Guns is a documentary about how the NZ Defence Force helped bring peace to Bougainville at the end of a bloody decade long civil war, armed with guitars, waiata, and wahine. Video, Audio

Three Minutes Max, short & sharp opinions from commentators around New Zealand. Here's Amanda Miller, talking about her feature length film documentary on social justice advocate Celia Lashlie. Audio

Ross Sutherland's a writer, poet and actor from Edinburgh who also makes a podcast called 'Imaginary Advice'. He does it all himself and calls the podcast the most important thing he makes, and a… Audio

Two documentaries have been released about 2017's disastrous Fyre Festival. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help one of the local Bahamian workers who were left out of pocket after the event.  Audio

Twenty-two-year-old Logan Williams (Ngai Tahu) is an inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator, and the chief executive and founder of Biome Innovation Ltd. Growing up in Timaru, he saw firsthand the… Audio

Merata Mita was a pioneering Maori filmmaker and activist who was a champion of women in indigenous film. Her son Hepi Mita is an archivist, whose father is filmmaker Geoff Murphy. Hepi has created a… Audio

Seven miles from the US-Mexico border, Bisbee in Arizona is a once booming mining town that is haunted by a history it would rather forget. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for… Audio

The plight of Tonga's LGBT community is under the spotlight with the released of a new documentary Leitis in Waiting. The film follows the life of transgender Tongan Joey / Joleen Mataele, who, along… Audio

Director Håvard Bustnes is a award-winning director and producer. He holds a degree in directing for television from the College of Film and TV at Lillehammer, Norway. His films have been selected to… Audio

Converting to organics has been a rewarding challenge for filmmaker and farmer Gaylene Barnes and her brother Andrew. They grow vegetables commercially on the family farm at Highbank in Canterbury… Audio, Gallery

There are high hopes for tree kangaroo conservation in Papua New Guinea following the screening of a film documenting work being done to save them in the Torricelli Mountains. Audio

Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir is Tom Scott's account of his life so far. From his hard-knock childhood, his days on student newspapers, making friends and enemies in the corridors of power and… Audio

Documentary Director Grant Findlay joins John Campbell in the studio to talk about his documentary about Radio Dunedin, and the story of the volunteer announcers who launched the station 95 years ago.