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The British BBC documentary Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods dryly and with restraint shows the harshness and bloodiness of life and death on the Ukrainian front this past winter. Drones and increasingly precise artillery are turning life on both sides of the front into a constant lottery with death or loss of limb. A single Ukrainian infantry company finds itself in a life-and-death struggle to defend the eastern front against intense Russian attacks. This is an extraordinary portrait of lives endangered by the turmoil of a bloody war, filmed by the Ukrainian soldiers themselves. With exclusive access to the tightly controlled front line, the film follows the mission of a special battalion as they make a single deployment to one of Ukraine's most violent fronts:...

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The Grierson Trust has announced the shortlist for the 2024 British Documentary Awards, with the BBC coming top at 28 entries.

Channel 4 follows closely behind with 23, Netflix with 17, Sky Documentaries with eight and National Geographic with four. The shortlist spans 15 program and presenter categories to reflect the best documentary singles and series launched across broadcasters, streamers and online, as well as theatrical releases.

This year’s awards includes a new category titled best popular culture documentary, open to single documentaries or an episode from a strand or series that depicts people, events, movements or trends that have had a major impact on pop culture in recent years. Shortlisted entries in this category cover a hoax pedophile scare created by Internet users, one of the U.K.’s most prominent performance poets, and an investigation into allegations of abuse against Kevin Spacey.

The Arts category features several films about fashion industry icons...