Documentary

Culture

Director Steve McQueen explores life under occupation

Past and present collide in Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter’s Occupied City, an experimental documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation.

Written by: Shelley Jones

Activism

The French anarchists who took on sinister tech giants

Machine in Flames — A new documentary delves into the mystery surrounding an anonymous activist group who carried out a series of arson attacks in Toulouse in the ‘80s.

Written by: Oliver Haynes

Activism

Why did the US military create fake towns in the ‘60s?

Riotsville, USA — A new documentary explores the government’s efforts to quash the protest movements of the late ‘60s by any means necessary, drawing unsettling parallels with policing today.

Written by: Daniel Dylan Wray

Culture

The UK‘s skate prodigies on the sport’s Olympics debut

Ride on — For the first time ever, skateboarding is embracing a more conventional status as an Olympic sport. Four skateboarders reflect on what happens to a subculture when it’s thrust into the mainstream.

Written by: Chloé Meley

Film

Coded Bias: how AI threatens our civil rights

Dystopian reality — Director Shalini Kantayya discusses her new film shedding light on the urgent threats machine learning poses to individual freedoms and democracy, and what society must do to combat these sinister technologies.

Written by: Daisy Schofield

Film

Stewart Lee on the post-punk band that shaped his career

King Rocker — The comedian discusses his new documentary about the relatively forgotten band, The Nightingales, and its renegade frontman, Robert Lloyd, which raises timely question around ideas of artistic success.

Written by: Fergal Kinney

Culture

A moving portrait of a Brooklyn teen gang in the '50s

Outsider on the inside — In 1959, photographer Bruce Davidson, then 25, embedded himself in a gang of New Yorkers to capture the essence of postwar inner-city youth culture.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Photography

The photographer capturing youth and freedom in Miami

In partnership with Calvin Klein — 'one future’, a new campaign from Calvin Klein, is spotlighting first-time voters across America. In the last of our intimate pieces on the project, Rose Marie Cromwell recalls how she created a visual celebration of adolescence.

Written by: Rose Marie Cromwell

Film

David Arquette: 'Nearly dying on film gave me PTSD'

Wrestling for redemption — Following the release of a new film documenting the actor's eventful foray into professional wrestling, Arquette speaks to Huck about returning from the brink of death, running into bar brawls, and ketamine therapy.

Written by: Daniel Dylan Wray

Culture

VCR visionary: The woman who taped 33 years of TV news

The Marion Stokes Project — Director Matt Wolf speaks to Huck about his documentary on the elusive Marion Stokes, a Communist radical who recorded 70,000 tapes worth of TV news as a form of activism.

Written by: Daisy Schofield

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