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Nick Broomfield

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  • Biggie And Tupac
  • Biggie And Tupac review by from London
    Rated - 3 stars A bit too Big For ME 17 November 2004
    ...This Nick Broomfield documentary is a tad confusing. There are lots of characters introduced and then he keeps referering back to them and to be honest I got a little lost. ...  
  • Kurt And Courtney
  • Kurt And Courtney review by from London
    Rated - 2 stars The Courtney & Nick show 5 February 2004
    ...bute to the combined talents of both, buy their records. One other point; if Nick Broomfield annoys you and you think that he leapt on this to develop his own career, avoid...  
  • Aileen - Life And Death Of A Serial Killer
  • Rated - 5 stars 19 June 2004
    ...uornos, a woman convicted of killing 7 men. This is the second time film maker Nick Broomfield visits the life of this ?serial killer? and now discovers he?s become part of t...  

Nick Broomfield - filmography


  • Ghosts on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Ai Qin Lin,  Zhan Yu,  Zhe Wei
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ai Qin, a young Chinese girl from Fujian, China, borrows $25,000 to pay Snakeheads to smuggle her into the UK illegally so she can support her son and family back in China. Once in the UK, she becomes another one of three million migrant workers that are the bedrock of its food supply chain, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,625 members
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  • Biggie And Tupac on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Biggie Smalls,  Tupac Shakur
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In this documentary film, director Nick Broomfield conducts his own investigation of two separate drive-by shootings that took the lives of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur in the late 1990s. He starts with the original police investigations and knits together pieces of information about the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,701 member
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  • Kurt And Courtney (1998)
    Starring: Kurt Cobain,  Courtney Love
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A controversial documentary on acclaimed musician Kurt Cobain, one of 1990's most important rock-and-roll figures. Director Broomfield questions his 'suicide' and paints a brutal, cold portrait of his wife, Courtney Love, going as far as to pose the scenario that she had him murdered. Love ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,589 member
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  • Biggie and Tupac to Watch Now (2002)
    Starring: Biggie Smalls,  Tupac Shakur
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 107 minutes
    In this documentary film, director Nick Broomfield conducts his own investigation of two separate drive-by shootings that took the lives of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur in the late 1990s. He starts with the original police investigations and knits together pieces of information about the ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 4 members
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  • Kurt and Courtney to Watch Now (1998)
    Starring: Kurt Cobain,  Courtney Love
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 96 minutes
    A controversial documentary on acclaimed musician Kurt Cobain, one of 1990's most important rock-and-roll figures. Director Broomfield questions his "suicide" and paints a brutal, cold portrait of his wife, Courtney Love, going as far as to pose the scenario that she had him murdered. Love ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6 members
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  • Heidi Fleiss - Hollywood Madame to Watch Now (1995)
    Starring: Nick Broomfield,  Heidi Fleiss
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 107 minutes
    With its parade of pimps, madams, hustlers, call girls, informers and cops, you quickly catch on that nothing can be trusted. Everybody lies. Its 'Rashomon' deep-fried in sleaze. Hypnotic and wretchedly funny. Like many of the people Broomfield approaches, they take stock of his milquetoast manner ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4 members
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  • The Leader, his Driver and the Driver's Wife to Watch Now (1991)
    Starring: Nick Broomfield
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 80 minutes
    An award winning documentary, first shown on Channel 4 TV's 'True Stories' programme which shows what happens when an apparently bumbling Nick Broomfield tries to make a film about the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement and its leader, Eugene Terreblanche. The result is both frightening and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 7 members
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  • Driving Me Crazy to Watch Now (1989)
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 79 minutes
    Both up-roaringly 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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Chicken Ranch to Watch Now (1983)
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 74 minutes
    They arrive in private planes and fast cars. Customers are lured by an assortment of delights; the Passion Chair, with its 37 different positions, the VIP Room, equipped with movies and a jacuzzi, the Crème de Menthe Frappe, the Bianca-Blast and more. Package tours can be arranged for larger groups...read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 8 members
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  • Soldier Girls to Watch Now (1981)
    Starring: Nick Broomfield
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 83 minutes
    Soldier Girls is an extraordinary look at a platoon of women undergoing base training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. The enormous strain the women are under, the sadism of their superiors and the element of role playing inherent in army life contrive to create some tremendously dramatic moments. Scene ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 3 members
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  • Juvenile Liaison to Watch Now (1975)
    Director: Nick Broomfield,  Joan Churchill
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 101 minutes
    In 1968, juvenile liaison sections were attached to a number of local police departments to function as a kind of bridging operation between young offenders, their homes and their schools. The programme is about the day to day working of one such section, attached to the Lancashire police in ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 16 members
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  • Tattoed Tears to Watch Now
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 80 minutes
    An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California, Broomfield's film becomes a 13 week odyssey into Hell, charting with great compassion many young men's struggle for survival in a brutal environment.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4 members
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  • His Big White Self to Watch Now
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 93 minutes
    Broomfield revisits his classic and lethal documentary on the Boer separatist Eugene Terre Blanche. This time, he had to go back in disguise, apparently as a character from a Jilly Cooper novel. Bearding the biblical old rascist again was funny, but the real point and poignancy of the revisit was ..read more »
    Rate this: 5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
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  • Proud to be British to Watch Now
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 29 minutes
    Made during his years at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, Bucks, the film is Broomfield's wry but ultimately troubling examination of the very British attitudes of this affluent and influential area of England.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 4 members
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  • Behind the Rent Strike to Watch Now
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 55 minutes
    A graduation project, inspired by the stories and characters Broomfield encountered during the making of 'Who Cares', this angry and enlightening film tells of the dignifies, human struggle behind a national scandal.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 3 members
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  • Too White for Me to Watch Now
    Starring: Nick Broomfield
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 82 minutes
    Still in his role as the innocent Brit in Africa, ludicrously encumbered by earphones and microphones, Broomfield turns to Chicco Twala - one of South Africa's black millionaires. Chicco Twala made his pile out of the African music business. Dazzlingly shirted Chicco is a good friend of Winnie ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3 members
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  • Tracking Down Maggie to Watch Now
    Starring: Nick Broomfield
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 80 minutes
    Kamikaze documentarian Nick Broomfield unleashes his bothersome Brit persona on the Iron Lady with hilariously revealing results - exposing sides of Thatcher that more hands-on portraits might never approach.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Juvenile Liaison 2 to Watch Now
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 79 minutes
    This sequel reacquaints us with the lives of the children and officers involved, examining the scars left by the stark events of "Juvenile Liaison." Both films are a sobering reminder that the need for change and social reform is never cut and dried, straightforward or simple.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3 members
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Nick Broomfield facts

5 most recent films

Battle for Haditha - 3.5 stars
Ghosts - 3.5 stars
Documenting Icons - Tracking Down Maggie - 3.0 stars
Documenting Icons - Chicken Ranch - 3.0 stars
Documenting Icons - Soldier Girls - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Nick Broomfield - His Big White Self Revisited - 3.5 stars
Nick Broomfield - The Early Works - 3.5 stars
Aileen - Life And Death Of A Serial Killer - 3.5 stars
Ghosts - 3.5 stars
Battle for Haditha - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Diamond Skulls - 2.0 stars
Documenting Icons - Soldier Girls - 3.0 stars
Nick Broomfield - Fetishes - 3.0 stars
Documenting Icons - Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

none - 9 times - show films
nick broomfield (pres / narr) - 6 times - show films
Aileen Wuornos - 6 times - show films
Heidi Fleiss - 4 times - show films
Tupac Shakur - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joan Churchill - 5 times - show films
Nick Broomfield - 2 times - show films