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10 unusual facts about Nick Broomfield


Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993) is a documentary film about Aileen Wuornos, made by Nick Broomfield.

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer is a 2003 feature-length documentary film about Aileen Wuornos, made by Nick Broomfield as a follow-up to his 1992 film Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.

Dylan Carlson

Carlson was one of the many people interviewed in the Nick Broomfield documentary Kurt & Courtney (1998), which argues that Cobain might have been murdered and casts suspicion on his wife Courtney Love.

Elliot Ruiz

In 2007 he got his break with acclaimed drama film Battle for Haditha, which was directed by British director Nick Broomfield.

Juvenile Liaison

Juvenile Liaison 1 (1975) and Juvenile Liaison 2 (1990) are documentary films by Nick Broomfield about a juvenile liaison project in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Nick Broomfield

Each of these featured Broomfield with his trademark sound boom "investigating" rumours about the soon-to-be released Volkswagen Passat.

He is often seen in the finished film, usually holding the sound boom and wearing the Nagra tape recorder.

The script was based on research with the Marines of Kilo Company who took part on that day, the survivors of the massacre, and the six thousand page NCIS government report.

This shift in film-making style was also heavily influenced by Broomfield's experience in attempting to release his earlier film Lily Tomlin, which chronicled Tomlin's one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.

Tracking Down Maggie

Tracking Down Maggie is a 1994 documentary film by Nick Broomfield about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.