Telling the story of a band of child soldiers, this French made drama looks like a documentary. It throws the viewer into the horror of a civil war in Africa.
There’s been a punk sensibility to all of Rachid Taha’s music. I asked him where that attitude comes from. "I think it’s the same for all desperate people," he told me. "The first punks were people like Oscar Wilde, John Lennon or Ian Dury. What they had in common was their openness to other influences."
Rachid Taha’s music resists pigeonholing. His new album, Bonjour, straddles "a rock sound, with a country influence" and "Arabic music".
The second part of the trilogy of Hunger Games novels follows Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark as they return home victorious after the games.
Bertolt Brecht’s classic play reveals the pomposity and naked prejudice of the privileged and powerful towards the supposedly "uneducated lower orders".
This new book looks at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the British new left in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Made in Jamaica, a 2006 documentary film by French director Jerome Laperrousaz, finally receives a limited cinema release in Britain this week.
With entries from all over the world, this carnival of film is a must for anyone interested in the power of documentaries to inform and inspire.
This foyer exhibition celebrates the role played by South Asian women in two vital industrial disputes – at Grunwick in the 1970s, and Gate Gourmet in 2005.
In this fascinating, and one of the last ever editions of the South Bank Show, writer Lee Hall talks about his recent play, The Pitmen Painters.
Before the late 1960s Hollywood was pretty much a "whites only" business. Parts for black actors were largely confined to servants and maids – and as for directors and writers, forget it.
