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  • 3 out of 5
    21 Jun 2012: Tom Lawes's film about the cinema he restored – Birmingham's Electric – is an entertaining trip down memory lane, says Peter Bradshaw
  • 3 out of 5
    21 Jun 2012: This study of how a couple in South Korea cope with disability is inspiring and saddening in equal measure, writes Catherine Shoard
  • 20 Jun 2012:

    Susan Froemke's documentary follows Robert Lepage's five-year journey as he stages Wagner's Ring Cycle for New York's Metropolitan Opera

  • Wagner clip one Video (2min 38sec), 20 Jun 2012:

    Watch an extract from a documentary about Robert Lepage's five-year journey as he stages Wagner's Ring Cycle for New York's Metropolitan Opera. This clip shows the 41-tonne set being moved onto the Met's stage for the first time

  • Wagner clip two Video (4min 08sec), 20 Jun 2012:

    Watch an extract from a documentary about Robert Lepage's five-year journey as he stages Wagner's Ring Cycle for New York's Metropolitan Opera. In this clip, conductor James Levine and director Lepage talk about the opening few bars of Das Rheingold - the crucial first notes of the entire cycle

  • Wagner trailer Video (2min 23sec), 20 Jun 2012:

    The documentary follows Robert Lepage's five-year journey as he stages Wagner's Ring Cycle for New York's Metropolitan Opera

  • 19 Jun 2012:

    Kirby Dick's The Invisible War has moved the US secretary of defence, Leon Panetta, to announce changes in policy towards the prosecution of rape in the military

  • 17 Jun 2012:

    Stuart Schulberg's film of the Nuremberg trials, only now generally available, is an essential and unforgettable document, writes Philip French

  • Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry 15 Jun 2012: Chinese delegates withdraw from attending Sheffield Doc/Fest after a request to cancel screenings of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry and High Tech, Low Life were refused by festival organisers
  • 4 out of 5
    15 Jun 2012:

    This long suppressed film about the postwar Nuremberg trials is still a shocking, important documentary, writes Rhik Samadder

  • From the Sea to the Land Beyond still Video (4min 08sec), 15 Jun 2012:

    Acclaimed documentary director Penny Woolcock and Martin Noble and Neil Hamilton from the band tell Xan Brooks about their collaboration

  • Female Marines Take On Challenges in Afghanistan 14 Jun 2012:

    Naomi Wolf: For men, combat experience is the leading cause of PTSD. For women, it's sexual assault. This is the real 'war on women'

  • 14 Jun 2012: In 1936, Berlin hosted the Olympics and Hitler asked director Leni Riefenstahl to film them. The result was a cinematic coup, but with sinister overtones
  • 13 Jun 2012:

    There is no festival this year. But luckily, the director has made a film about the 'frightening, liberating' world of the festival's Shangri-La area

  • Anti-Pinochet protester 10 Jun 2012: Sympathisers say they want to set record straight, but pro-Pinochet documentary angers victims' relatives

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    Tom Lawes's film about the cinema he restored – Birmingham's Electric – is an entertaining trip down memory lane, says Peter Bradshaw