My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years In Afghanistan

ITV, Monday, 10.45pm

Like Richard Linklater’s 2014 movie Boyhood, this featurelength documentary was shot over a long period of time, following Mir as he turns from being a mischievous boy of seven living in a cave in central Afghanistan, through his adolescence to his adult years with a family of his own. What makes it so moving is not just Mir’s personal journey, but that some of the landmarks featured have since been destroyed.