Culture: Documentary

Chinese whispers

Xiaolu Guo on the voices of a changing country

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Michael Moore: Q+A

The documentary-maker on capitalism, Obama and why Britain is about to get punished

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Lost in translation

Eighty minutes doesn't do justice to one of the world's seminal texts The Quran Channel 4

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Rebel without a pause

Once Hollywood's enfant terrible, Spike Lee is now directing blockbusters and TV shows. But, he tells Stephen Armstrong, he is still fighting for black cinema

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Death in America

A shocking documentary about jumpers from the Golden Gate Bridge has prompted a long-overdue debate about suicide

The revolution will not be televised

As he launches a season of his films, John Pilger argues that, in the age of Big Brother, television is no longer nurturing challenging documentary-makers

Shane Watson - Bridget Jones with baggage

Television - A slick documentary about a fortysomething singleton is a little too close to home writes Shane Watson One Life: billboard love (BBC1)

No sex please, we're students

Television - Andrew Billen finds College Girls contains nothing titillating at all

I awoke, and in one heave threw my entire frame at him

Documentary in crisis

We watch more factual television than any other nation. Reflecting on recent controversies, Malcolm Clark argues in defence of the genre