Who Killed the Electric Car? and Listen to Britain, are documentary films?
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Who Killed the Electric Car? Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the mid-1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the federal government of the United States, the California government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
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Listen to Britain Listen to Britain is a 1942 British propaganda short film by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister. The film was produced during World War II by the Crown Film Unit, an organisation within the British Government's Ministry of Information to support the Allied war effort. The film was nominated for the inaugural Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1943, but lost against four other Allied propaganda films. It is noted for its nonlinear structure and its use of sound.
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Five Ways to Save the World Five Ways to Save the World is a British documentary film on environmental issues related to climate change, released in 2006. The film was made by Karen O'Connor, for the big screen and was shot in the English language to reach an international audience. It includes interviews with five environmental scientists and experts including Paul Crutzen, James Roger Angel, John Latham, Ian Jones, and Klaus Lackner.
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Carol Pineau Carol Pineau is a British journalist and producer, writer, and director of documentary films.
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Chris Paine Chris Paine is an American filmmaker. His most notable works to date as director are the documentaries "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and "Revenge of the Electric Car".
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When Louis Met... When Louis Met... is a series of documentary films by Louis Theroux. The series was originally aired on BBC2 from 2000 to 2002. In the series, Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme as they went about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he did so. His episode about Jimmy Savile "(When Louis Met... Jimmy)" was voted one of the top 50 documentaries of all time in a survey by Britain's Channel Four. In another episode "("When Louis Met... the Hamiltons")", the Tory MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine were arrested during the course of filming following allegations of indecent assault which were subsequently found to be false. The show did not return for a third series; Theroux said that he had difficulty in finding people to appear.
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The Spirit of '45 The Spirit of '45 is a 2013 documentary film by British director Ken Loach, focused on and celebrating the radical changes in postwar Britain under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, which came to power in 1945. Relying primarily on archive footage and interviews, and without a narrative voiceover, the film recounts the endemic poverty in prewar Britain, the sense of optimism that followed victory in World War II and the subsequent expansion of the welfare state, founding of the National Health Service and nationalisation of significant parts of the UK's economy. The film documents the extent to which these achievements, as Loach sees them, have since been subject to attack in the decades that followed, particularly under the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Loach said that the model for the film was "oral history, with pictures".
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Man Alive! (film) Man Alive! is a 1952 American short documentary film directed by William T. Hurtz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene is a biographical documentary film about Graham Greene, originally broadcast nationally on PBS on March 29, 2013 and distributed internationally. It was directed by Thomas Patrick O'Connor and narrated by Derek Jacobi. Contributors and cast include Graham Greene himself, his wife Vivien Greene, Bernard Diederich, John le Carré, David Lodge, John Mortimer, Bill Nighy, John Perkins, Paul Theroux and biographers Richard Greene (no relation) and Norman Sherry.
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Wild Case Files Wild Case Files is a documentary television series that premiered in the United Kingdom in July 2006 on the National Geographic Channel.
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Drilling and Killing Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship is an audio documentary produced by Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, mixed and engineered by Dred Scott Keyes. The piece was first aired in 1998 on "Democracy Now!"
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Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast is a 2017 British documentary film directed and written by Daniel Draper, and produced by Christie Allanson and Daniel Draper. The film is about life, times and work of socialist, trade unionist and Labour Party MP Dennis Skinner.
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Gears and Tears Gears and Tears was a British television documentary series about stock car racing, which originally aired on BBC One in 2010.
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Britain in a Day Britain in a Day is a crowdsourced documentary film that consists of a series clips of footage shot by members of the public in Britain on 12 November 2011. Scott Free Films and the BBC produced the film, which was made in conjunction with YouTube.
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Joy Division (2007 film) Joy Division is a 2007 British documentary film on the British post-punk band Joy Division, directed by Grant Gee.
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Jump London Jump London is a documentary first broadcast by Channel 4 about parkour and free running in September 2003, directed by Mike Christie and produced by Optomen Television. It later spawned a sequel, "Jump Britain" that first aired in January 2005. Both feature documentaries were directed by Mike Christie.
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One by One (1975 film) One by One (reissued in edited form as The Quick and the Dead in 1978) is a documentary about the deadliness of Grand Prix racing, including footage of fatal racing accidents. It is narrated by Stacy Keach.
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Yesterday's Men (documentary) Yesterday's Men is a British documentary shown in the "24 Hours" series (BBC 1) on 16 June 1971. The programme is remembered for provoking a major clash between the Labour Party and the BBC. According to Anthony Smith, the editor of "24 Hours" at the time, the film led to "the biggest and most furious row that a television programme in the English language has ever provoked."
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Brick Lane (2006 film) Brick Lane is a 2006 British documentary directed and produced by Minoo Bhatia. The documentary is about the personal stories and journeys of people who have made the street Brick Lane their home, how these different groups have shaped the town and the changing cultural markers that define the area. It was broadcast by BBC Two on 25 March 2006.
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Britain's Best Buildings Britain's Best Buildings is a BBC documentary series in which the TV presenter and architectural historian Dan Cruickshank discusses his selection of the finest examples of British architecture. It was first broadcast on BBC Two from 2 to 23 November 2002, and returns on BBC Four from 5 May to 2 June 2004.
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The World According to John Coltrane The World According to John Coltrane is a documentary about jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
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Moog (film) Moog is a 2004 documentary film by Hans Fjellestad about electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog. The film features scenes of Dr. Moog interacting with various musical artists who view Moog as an influential figure in the history of electronic music.