Nick Broomfield Movies

A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones, key to the success of…

Last Man Standing takes a look at Death Row and how L.A.’s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt LA…

An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.

By the time Whitney Elizabeth Houston was 15, she was singing background vocals for Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson. In 1983 Whitney signed a worldwide recording contract with…

Six Greenpeace volunteers in 2008 were tried and acquitted for shutting down Kingsnorth power station in the UK. This was in protest at the government’s plans to build a new…

Nick Broomfield goes in pursuit of Sarah Palin, interviewing her family and friends, for a decidedly unauthorized perspective on this growing force in American politics.

Documentarian Nick Broomfield examines the problems of slum demolition and the removal of residents to new housing blocks.

Made while Nick Broomfield was still a film student, it’s a wry but ultimately troubling examination of British attitudes in an affluent area of Britain – the English home counties.

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film ‘Ghosts’ (about the Morecambe Bay Chinese Cockle Pickers ). As an…

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An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California.

A documentary about women’s basic training in Fort Georgia.

Documentary on the “Chicken Ranch,” a legal Nevada brothel.

Both uproaringly funny and unerringly cautionary, Broomfield’s behind-the-scenes document of the making of a musical becomes a ceremonious unmaking-of as egos, budgets and general calamity conspire to ruin the best…

Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.

Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora’s Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses…

A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Several months elapse…

In 1997, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G.) were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop’s infamous east-west rivalry….

After rocker Kurt Cobain’s death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain’s aunt who provides…

In November 2005, US Marines fell into an ambush by Iraqi insurgents and one officer got killed. The reprisals by the the Americans were frightening, resulting in the massacre of…

15 years after his classic documentary “The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife”, Nick Broomfield examines the history of the far-right AWB and its leader Eugene Terre’Blanche and returns…

Nick Bloomfield’s sequel documentary reacquaints us with the lives of the children and officers and examines the scars left by the stark events of Part I. We are left with…

This documentary looks at Aileen Wuornos convicted of killing 7 men while working as a prostitute in Florida. This is actually the second Wuornos documentary made by this group the…

1992, Florida, USA. Aileen Wuornos is claimed to be the world’s first female serial killer.

From the award-winning Director, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife portrays the sinister and comic sides of Eugene Terre’Blanche, leader of the neo-Nazi AWB Afrikaner Party in South…

Hugo, heir to a fortune, is married to Ginny. They have a young son, and she seems devoted to Hugo, but jealousy wracks him: he imagines her in the arms…

Set in Liverpool in 1979, this documentary follows the tenants of a housing estate as they go about their everyday lives, leading up to going on rent. We get a…