Nick Broomfield | HARDtalk

Duration: 23'20''

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Zeinab Badawi speaks to world renowned and influential British film-maker Nick Broomfield. His subjects have included a female serial killer, a Hollywood madam, illegal migrant workers and a bloody episode in the Iraq war. But is his work sensationalist, voyeuristic television or does it have the power to bring about social and political change?

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