Nick Broomfield

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Nicholas "Nick" Broomfield (born 1948) is an English documentary film-maker. He is the son of Maurice Broomfield, a photographer. Broomfield works with a minimal crew, just himself and one or two camera operators, which gives his documentaries a particular style. Broomfield is often in shot holding the sound boom. Broomfield was awarded the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Documentary, and was given honorary doctorates from Essex and Surrey University. He was awarded the Californian State Bar Award for his contribution to Legal Reform and is a founder member of the Morecambe Bay Victims Fund.

Most Popular Nick Broomfield Trailers

Total trailers found: 41

After Frank Trailer (2005)

30 September 2005

Filmmaker, Walter Forsyth sets out on a journey to make a tribute film about photographer/filmmaker, Robert Frank, deconstructing the documentary form along the way.

Snuff-Movie Trailer (2005)

27 August 2005

Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s.

Ghosts Trailer (2006)

25 October 2006

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.

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer Trailer (1992)

01 November 1992

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders.

Biggie & Tupac Trailer (2002)

11 January 2002

In 1997, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G.

Diamond Skulls Trailer (1990)

08 June 1990

Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him.

Fetishes Trailer (1996)

12 September 1996

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.

Battle for Haditha Trailer (2007)

11 September 2007

An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.

Soldier Girls Trailer (1981)

15 September 1981

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

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Trailer (2003)

21 November 2003

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990.

Juvenile Liaison Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

Juvenile Liaison is about the day-to-day assignments of the juvenile liaison section of the Blackburn, Lancashire police force.

Whitney: Can I Be Me Trailer (2017)

24 April 2017

The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.

Lily Tomlin Trailer (1987)

14 June 1987

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.

Tattooed Tears Trailer (1979)

09 January 1979

An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California.

Last Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie and Tupac Trailer (2021)

02 July 2021

Last Man Standing takes a look at Death Row and how L.A.’s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt LA police officers who were also gang affiliated.

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love Trailer (2019)

05 July 2019

A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen. The film follows their relationship from their early days in Greece, a time of "free love" and open marriage, to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician.

Tales of the Grim Sleeper Trailer (2014)

29 August 2014

When Lonnie Franklin Jr. was arrested in South Central Los Angeles in 2010 as the suspected murderer of a string of young black women, police hailed it as the culmination of 20 years of investigations.

Going Going Gone: Nick Broomfield's Disappearing Britain Trailer (2016)

25 May 2016

Two iconic British buildings - the Wellington Rooms in Liverpool and the Coal Exchange in Cardiff - are threatened with demolition and Nick Broomfield is on the case.

Harumi Trailer (2019)

12 May 2019

In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi spent decades painting, writing poetry and dancing in her home designed by architect Richard Neutra.

Kurt & Courtney Trailer (1998)

27 February 1998

After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary.

Sarah Palin: You Betcha! Trailer (2011)

30 September 2011

A journey that takes the viewers across the icy mid-winter snows of Alaska to meet her school friends, family, and Republican colleagues, to try and discover the real Sarah Palin.

The Stones and Brian Jones Trailer (2024)

25 April 2024

A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones, key to the success of the band.

His Big White Self Trailer (2006)

03 April 2006

A follow-up to "The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife", about the history of the far-right group AWB and its leader Eugene Terre'Blanche.

Capturing Reality Trailer (2008)

01 November 2008

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre.

The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver's Wife Trailer (1991)

13 September 1991

Nick Broomfield tries to interview Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the sinister neo-nazi AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa.

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam Trailer (1995)

27 December 1995

A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial.

Juvenile Liaison 2 Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Nick Bloomfield's sequel documentary reacquaints us with the lives of the children and officers and examines the scars left by the stark events of Part I.

Tracking Down Maggie Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

What begins as a genuine attempt to get an interview with the so-called 'Iron Lady' former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, quickly turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in the United States.

Who Cares Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

Documentarian Nick Broomfield examines the problems of slum demolition and the removal of residents to new housing blocks.

Monster in a Box Trailer (1992)

15 May 1992

Monologuist Spalding Gray talks about the great difficulties he experienced while attempting to write his first novel, a nearly 2,000-page autobiographical tome concerning the death of his mother.

Driving Me Crazy Trailer (1988)

10 September 1988

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.

My Father and Me Trailer (2019)

05 October 2019

A complex and moving film about filmmaker Nick Broomfield's relationship with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid, often lustrous images of industrial post-WWII England.

Behind the Rent Strike Trailer (1974)

24 October 1974

Kirby, on the outskirts of Liverpool, England, October 1972. A chronicle of the fourteen-month strike by thousands of tenants to protest against the £1 increase in council house rents due to the Housing Finance Act.

Sex: My British Job Trailer (2013)

23 September 2013

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay Chinese Cockle Pickers).

Chicken Ranch Trailer (1983)

01 May 1983

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

Too White for Me Trailer (1992)

21 May 1992

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.

Proud to Be British Trailer (1973)

01 January 1973

Gathering numerous face-to-face interviews with residents of the conservative stronghold of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Broomfield paints an ironic portrait of racist parochial views.

A Time Comes Trailer (2009)

10 January 2009

Six Greenpeace volunteers in 2008 were tried and acquitted for shutting down Kingsnorth power station in the UK.

Whittingham Trailer (1975)

26 August 1975

Ray Gosling and Nick Broomfield spent three weeks in the hospital filming a documentary for Granada Television, broadcast on ITV on 26 August 1975.

Marriage Guidance Trailer (1977)

16 January 1977

Early Nick Broomfield film

History Reel Trailer (2005)

07 January 2005

Broomfield's personal overview of his diverse and divisive career, featuring clips and commentary from 3 decades of acclaimed documentary filmmaking.