Sir Richard Branson, one of the world’s most inspiring risk-takers and big-shot businessmen, has a reputation for consistently rolling the dice.
You have to be close to certifiably insane to make Joe Exotic look like an upstanding citizen. Enter professional wrestler Teddy Hart.
As far as Maxwell’s legal team is concerned, aiding and abetting decades of sex trafficking and the abuse of underage girls and women isn’t really that bad.
Rassie Erasmus’ journey from player to coach to administrator is the subject of a new documentary, ‘Rassie: The Official Film’.
Having been the subject of ‘The Crown’ and films such as ‘Spencer’, renewed interest in the royal family household has made the timing of ‘The Princess’ documentary quite perfect… maybe too perfect.
Rather than dabble in ones you’ve probably seen like ‘The Tinder Swindler’, here are four that may have flown under your radar.
These documentaries have stood the test of time and remain the benchmark against which others are measured.
Known for starting McAfee Antivirus, ‘Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee’ unpacks the eccentric man’s escape from Belize in the Caribbean after being implicated in the murder of neighbour, Gregory Faull.
Manti Te’o may not be a name South Africans are familiar with, but a decade ago he was a darling of American sports before it all came crashing down.
‘Bandit Warlords of Zamfara’ delves into the violent workings of the dangerous gangs which operate in Nigeria’s northwestern regions.
Netflix’s new documentary tries to trace some of the madness, following the cybersecurity pioneer as he went on the run from authorities.
‘Blind Ambition’ is a stirring and entertaining documentary about four sommeliers who combine their forces to form Zimbabwe’s first national wine-tasting team.
The original Woodstock festival has been celebrated for its free-spirited peace and love vibes, but then came its evil twin, Woodstock ’99.
The doccie has already received Oscar buzz and has been referred to as the “greatest lava story ever told” and “hands down, the documentary of the year”.
When investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck looked at the eyes of the little girl who sat next to her father in that picture back in 2002, he immediately knew something was “terribly wrong”.
The murkiness and madness behind Victoria’s Secret and its shady former CEO Les Wexner are being pushed further into the spotlight with Hulu’s new documentary, ‘Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons’.
‘Edge of the Earth’ brings us face to face with four epic adventures that push the boundaries of what risk is considered acceptable.
In 1971, D.B. Cooper jumped out of a plane with a parachute and $200 000 in ransom money, never to be seen again.
More than 60 pupils at Ariel School, an expensive private institution outside of Harare, said they saw “a disc-shaped craft land from the sky and stop in a field outside their school”.
‘The Princess’ will explore the period from Diana’s 1981 engagement to Prince Charles to her tragic death in 1997.
Incredible discoveries made at a unique North Dakota fossil site have been stacking up, including something that NASA described as “mind-blowing”.
Alexei Navalny shot to fame around the world when he was poisoned in 2020. Unpacking that poisoning is “one of the most jaw-dropping things you’ll ever witness”.
As the trailer for ‘Our Father’ shows, all it took was a DNA test and an unfortunate stop on Ancestry.com for his “children” to put it all together.
Alwyn Uys is the name of a paraplegic man whose life story forms the basis for ‘Against All Odds: The Alwyn Uys Story’.
There’s a lot that has been conveniently left out of Netflix’s new documentary, ‘Return to Space’, which centres on Elon Musk and SpaceX.
Monroe was found dead in her bed at the age of just 36, and conspiracy theories surrounding how she died have circulated ever since.
Apparently, this one of a kind documentary featuring guest star William Shatner will “show the public what’s really happening in our skies with UFOs”.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the company was a fashion giant. Fast forward 20-odd years and the tide has very much turned, with a litany of costly lawsuits denting its reputation.
The Sparks Brothers had a cameo on ‘The Gilmore Girls’ in an episode where the town of Star’s Hollow was invaded by a horde of buskers.
Werner and Rudolph Herzog are examining the quest to colonise space in their new documentary, ‘Last Exit: Space’.