Nick Broomfield

This documentary provides an insight into the mind of Aileen Wournos (whose story is the basis for the feature film "Monster"), a deeply paranoid yet sympathetic person who lost her mind and killed seven people. (Nick Broomfield)

This documentary investigates the still unsolved murders of rap superstars Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur. (Roxie Releasing)

This is the story of Spaulding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living... (imdb)

It documents Broomfield's attempts to interview Wuornos, which involves a long process of mediation through her adopted mother Arlene Pralle and an incompetent lawyer, Steve.

A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her... (imdb)

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 of a colleague, he spies on her, he rages. One night, after drinking with members of his regiment, he runs his car over a woman: she dies, and all but one of his pals urge him to drive on... (imdb)

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 home movies and recordings, the estranged father of Cobain's widow Courtney Love, an L.A. private investigator who worked for Love, a nanny for Kurt and Courtney's child, friends and lovers of both, and others. Although Love won't talk to him and his inquiries lose him financial backing, he comes to believe the coroner's verdict. (imdb)

An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the roadside bomb. (imdb)

A powerful documentary focusing on the incarcerated young offenders in The California Youth Authority.

For two weeks, 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... (imdb)

An interview with a the leader of a South African white supremacist leader, and his entourage.

Nick Broomfield revisits the scene of his earlier documentary The Leader, His Driver and The Driver's Wife. Eugene Terrablanche, the eponymous leader of the Neo Nazi South Africa militia the AWB was recently released from prison before the making of the film.

When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that have become the bedrock of our economy. Forced to live with eleven other Chinese people in a two bedroom house, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. Risking their lives for pennies these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night. (imdb)

Chiccotwala, one of South Africa's most successful musicians, makes arrangements for a local Tracy Chapman concert. We follow him through his life as he does so.

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

Who Cares listens to the voices of Liverpudlians being rehoused from inner city terraces to suburban high-rise estates. As we hear them describe how the moves have affected them negatively, we see the old terraces being demolished, boarded up houses, and vans taking people's possessions to the new estates. The faceless 'Corporation' of Liverpool (the local authority) has deemed that they must move, and few get any choice where they move to.

For five weeks Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill follow a special unit of the Lancashire police (UK) who enforce what is now known in America as 'zero tolerance'. (Unknown)

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.

Fifteen years after its release, the documentary team attempt to track down the participants of the original film to see how their lives have been affected or changed by the controversial juvenile liaison department of Blackburn's police force.

A look at life in an illegal London brothel through the eyes (camera glasses at least) of Hsiao-Hung Pai, an undercover reporter posing as a worker there.

Perennially provocative documentarian Nick Broomfield has frequently turned to crime investigations (Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, Biggie & Tupac) that raise larger questions about gender, race, and class inequalities in America. Now he digs into the case of a South Central Los Angeles serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, whose string of murders spanned twenty-five years. (Toronto International Film Festival)

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 glimpse of the human struggle behind a national scandal. (imdb)

A look at social class, status, education and politics in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

Backstage record of how Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner and their associates put together ''The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,'' Miss Tomlin's one-woman Broadway play .

Two iconic British buildings are threatened with demolition and the intrepid Nick Broomfield is on the case. In this pair of documentaries Broomfield profiles the Wellington Rooms in Liverpool and the Coal Exchange in Cardiff. (imdb)

Tells the story of Whitney Houston's extraordinary life and tragic death. (imdb)

Both uproariously 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 efforts of all involved in the New York rehearsals for an extravagant, glitzy production. (imdb)

Documentary on the "Chicken Ranch," a legal Nevada brothel. (imdb)

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

Last Man Standing takes at look at Death Row Records and how L.A.'s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt L.A. Police Officers who were also gang affiliated. It would be this world of gang rivalry and dirty cops that would later claim the lives of the world's two greatest rappers: Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. (imdb)

The Stones and Brian Jones examines the musical creativity of Jones, the secret to the band's success, through candid interviews with all the essential performers and previously unreleased archive. (imdb)