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Stop! Don't click away, yes it's a sports documentary but "Welcome to Wrexham" is more than than that. For those lofty intellectuals that subscribe to my feed, who won't lower their standards to watch a documentary about a 'game', just hop down off your high horse, for just a moment and consider that the cultural and historical significance of this documentary series has single handedly re-written the history and aspirations of the town Wrexham.

Starting from a tiny production this show hqas grown and matured and while the budget is modest (by US standards) TV execs must be looking at this show about a non descript football team in Wales, long past their prime and wonder, how are they creating such compelling viewing, with observational footage, interviews and fan created content. Compare this program with F1 Drive to Survive, with a massive budget, high tech, flying around the world to capture the action and the drama, but it doesn't come close to Welcome to Wrexham S4Ep8; "Do a Wrexham", how is that possible...?

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Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn" is an investigative feature-length documentary directed by Lucy Blakstad in 2022. It follows the rise and fall of Carlos Ghosn, a businessman in the car industry straddling 2 cultures. The film tracks the rise of Ghosn, a General Manager at French car manufacturer Renault in the late 90's as he takes control of Nissan in Japan and begins to take a firm grip over both companies. But when his business practices came into question, he was jailed in Japan while the scrutiny of his business practices raged in his absence. Whilst on parole, he and his associates plot to get him out of Japan, and intrigue ensues.

This film is an interesting deep dive into one of the more intriguing cases in modern times of a business leader who, once the golden child, had a phenomenal fall from grace. While online pundits applaud and worship and applaud Elon Musk and other car industry leaders as untouchable bastions of commercial enterprise, this film paints a more realistic picture of the life of a corporate leader who flew a little too close to the sun.

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The Diamond Heist is a 3-part true crime series written and directed by Jesse Vile released 16th of April 2025. It's a true crime documentary oozing with sassy reenactments that glorify violence and toxic masculinity, true to form for Guy Ritchie. In fact, Ritchie was attached to this project but it was not "his creation" as some critics have attested to, in fact, Ritchie was Executive Producer along with 2 others...not the Director. However, the Ritchie's influence is evident throughout with multiple homages to "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", so if that film floated your boat, then you are in for a real world treat.

It's the early 2000's, A ragtag bunch of career criminals decide to lift their game and aim for the stars by taking down the now infamous London Millennium Dome... or more specifically, the De Beers Millennium Star, a Diamond of 203 carats worth an astronomical 350 million pounds.

This film unabashedly thwarts the style versus substance balance in favour of style as it trains its eye on mainstream documentary audiences. It does this really well, the story is well structured, the reenactments are dynamic and well produced, and the interviews are engaging and fun. The film deep dives into the culture around the Millennium Dome in the early 2000's and contrasts that with the lives of those living deep in the heart of England's criminal underworld.

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