Nick Broomfield

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This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.Read More »

From the award-winning Director Nick Broomfield, 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 Africa.Read More »

The camera shows views of the Victorian city of Liverpool while residents deliver comments off-camera what they feel about their relocation to large housing estates while the old inner city buildings are being pulled down. Even if the living conditions were not great the sense of community and feeling at home has been lost after moving to the new flats.

This is the first film by British documentarian Nick Broomfield.Read More »

Racist, patriotic, and imperialistic, the subjects of Broomfield’s second film – in which citizens from across the class spectrum are asked for their views about being British and Britain in general – manage to hang themselves, without the need of any commentary, with their own arrogant, complacent views.Read More »

Nick Broomfield documents the rent strike in Kirkby New Town in 1973, when 3000 residents protested against the Housing Finance Bill.

Broomfield’s graduation project from the National Film and Television School, the film is about the rent strike in Kirkby New Town in Liverpool in 1973, when 3000 residents protested against the Housing Finance Bill. It shows the violent clashes between residents and the police and the social conditions experienced by residents, including appalling housing and job prospects.

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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. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber, wrestling, corporal punishment, masochism, and infantilism. Mistress Raven, the owner of Pandora’s Box, explains that pain need not be part of the subservient experience: it is, at its root, a transfer of power. After their session has ended, clients talk about how drained, relaxed, relieved, and at peace they are.Read More »

Lonnie Franklin Jr was arrested in July 2010 after a 25 year killing spree in which it is thought he could have killed over a 100 victims, potentially making him the most prolific serial killer in history. Significantly his arrest was not the product of painstaking detective work but completely accidental, the result of a computer DNA match that linked him to a possible 20 victims. Franklin now awaits trial. Tales of the Grim Sleeper looks into how it was possible for all this to happen.Read More »

Chicken Ranch is a 1983 documentary film by Nick Broomfield about the famous legalised brothel, the Chicken Ranch, in Pahrump, Nevada. Photographed by Sandi Sissel. The documentary, which remains purely observational for the most part, depicts the prostitutes as likeable characters often looking for a way out of the remote location where the brothel is situated. The film shows the girls lining up for potential clients, joking about their job, and interacting with one another within the brothel. The film ends with one girl, Mandy, being fired from the ranch.Read More »