1: Life on the Limit

...provides a colourful portrait of the perils and pleasures of Formula 1, especially if you don't know your Monza from your Monaco.

Combining archive footage with latterday interviews,...film uses sonorous narration by Michael Fassbender to lead us through the history of a sport that was once infamous for its catastrophically high mortality rate.

Smartly marshalled archive footage finds the sweet spot between gawping at carnage and contextualising it within the sport's painful evolution...