John Akomfrah masterfully pieces together Stuart Hall’s legacy in this engrossing documentary about one of the most important pioneers of British Cultural studies. The film eschews most if not all the usual tropes of bio-docs creating a balanced engaging portrait of Stuart Hall from his origins in Jamaica to the difficult questions posed by his departure and daily life in England. No talking heads should come as a relief to many who find the genre boring or difficult to keep up with. The only clips used are from a montage of Hall's various television and radio appearances over the years interspersed with old news footage. The effect is debitaliting at times as we speed along with only the music of Miles Davis as an orchestrated narrative device to mark the passing of time. John comments “The Miles Davis music provided you with a kind of marker of time, Miles was there because I thought it gave you a kind of sonic map of a devolving postwar world”. Available on BFI Player and running at just under two hours it’s a fitting tribute for one of the most influential academics of our time.