Documentary
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How hate-symbol Pepe the Frog took trolling mainstream
Feels Good Man — The directors of a new documentary about Pepe the Frog speak to Huck about how the cartoon was co-opted by the far right, and what it tells us about the state of America.
Written by: Daniel Dylan Wray
White Riot: how rock took on racism in Britain
Punk politics — Director Rubika Shah discusses her new documentary, White Riot, which traces the story of grassroots political movement Rock Against Racism, and the role of activism in Britain’s music history.
Written by: Katie Goh