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Lindsay Poulton

Lindsay Poulton the Guardian's head of documentaries. Twitter @lindsay_poulton

July 2024

  • Lei and Abu travel to the US to freeze their eggs in the Guardian documentary, Frozen in Time, by Rongfei Guo

    Women's right to choose
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • The Guardian documentary
    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

June 2024

  • The Guardian documentary
    Dear Mamma: a transgender man, his mother and their journey in letters

  • Still from the Guardian documentary, Dear Mamma by filmmaker Sky Neal

    The Guardian documentary
    Dear Mamma: a journey of acceptance for a mother and transgender son

May 2024

  • Guardian Documentary, 'Old Lesbians' by filmmaker Meghan McDonough

    The Guardian documentary
    Old Lesbians: reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

  • From first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out and from loss to connection. For the last 25 years, retired schoolteacher Arden Eversmeyer travelled from Houston across the US to record hundreds of oral 'herstories' from a rapidly disappearing population. Old Lesbians honours Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project – a powerful reminder of the strength, resilience and unwavering spirit of these remarkable women

    29:11

    The Guardian documentary
    Old Lesbians: reclaiming old age and queerness through storytelling

  • The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. In this unique video diary, journalist Abbas Rezaie follows the tenacious correspondents as they continue to report the news. We witness a turning point in Afghanistan’s history, and reflect on what it is to be a displaced journalist

    25:56

    The Guardian documentary
    Can journalism survive the Taliban? – documentary

  • Guardian Documentary, 'House No.30, Kabul' featuring Zaki Daryabi, the founder of the Afghan newspaper, The Etilaat Roz

    The Guardian documentary
    Can journalism survive the Taliban?

April 2024

  • PressureAndRelease THUMBNAIL

    The Guardian documentary
    Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians

  • The Guardian documentary
    Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians

March 2024

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

    29:18

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon’s tomb - the island’s biggest tourist attraction. However, while overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

  • This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be. Through enacted scenes from their lives, it makes visible the expanding digital divide – an issue too often unseen or ignored

    8:11

    The Guardian documentary
    The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?

  • Could you live without the internet? Doctors’ appointments, job applications, personal banking, key services and more are today mostly managed online. While the UK government details its plans for a digital future to transform public services, one in seven Britons are forced to live without the internet. This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be.

    The Guardian documentary
    The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?

February 2024

  • Scene from the documentary 'Ukrainian Factory' by Olha Zhurba

    The Guardian documentary
    Ukrainian Factory: two years of war for a Mykolaiv key worker

  • The Guardian documentary
    Ukrainian Factory: two years of war for a Mykolaiv key worker

January 2024

  • When Rakel took over the last farm in her Norwegian village, she was not only taking responsibility for a flock of accident-prone woolly animals, but also a way of life at a crossroads

    23:17

    The Guardian documentary
    Rowdy Flock: a daughter, her dreams, and a sheep farm in Norway

  • Rakel Nystabakk in the Norwegian documentary, Rowdy Flock made by filmmaker Rebekka Nystabakk

    The Guardian documentary
    Rowdy Flock: a daughter, her dreams, and a sheep farm in Norway

  • Phuntsho Tshering in the documentary, Bhutan Mountain Man by film-maker Arun Bhattarai

    The Guardian documentary
    Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist

  • Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glaciologist and the only person authorised to climb the country’s sacred Himalayas. While travelling, he records the changing landscape in moving videos for his daughter

    22:17

    The Guardian documentary
    Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist

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