Slumdog Millionaire cleans up at the British Independent Film Awards winning the top three, including Best Film and Best Director.

There are lots of choices and stars this week in theaters, from singing sensation Beyonce Knowles to Superbad’s Michael Cera, and Nixon admitting guilt in The Watergate Scandal.

Steve McQueen, the director of Hunger, shares why he personally wanted to make a movie about Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army volunteer who starved himself to death in protest to Britain’s rule in 1981, and how important it is to learn from the past.