Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > History: 241 Films to Buy & Rent
Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival (2023)
- The true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, told by the only man ever to have repeated their incredible…
Australian Wars, The (TV Mini-Series) (2022)
- This three–part documentary series gives voice to the story of The Australian Wars, as the colonial frontier pushed forward, and First Nations…
Merkel (2022)
- Dir. Eva Weber
- A fittingly admirable portrait of the one of the great diplomats of modern times, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany for sixteen years, and most…
Raphael: The Young Prodigy (2021)
- Dir. Massimo Ferrari
- A documentary about the Italian painter Raphael, and his extraordinary contribution to the short–lived High Renaissance movement of the late…
Pompeii: Sin City (2020)
- A documentary exploring the city of Pompeii and its profound influence on culture and art over the course of human history.
Provides an evocative…
#Anne Frank: Parallel Stories (2019)
- Dir. Sabina Fedeli, Anna Migotto
Feat. Helen Mirren
- Documentary marking the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation, featuring Helen Mirren reading from Anne Frank's diaries and providing a moving…
Apollo 11 (2019)
- Dir. Todd Douglas Miller
- A handsomely mounted, meticulously conceived documentary presenting the events of the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon, led by commander Neil…
Civilisations (TV Series) (2018)
- Inspired by Kenneth Clark's classic documentary series CIVILISATION (1969), this nine–part series tells the story of art from the dawn of human…
Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
- Dir. Werner Herzog, André Singer
- Werner Herzog directs this candid documentary based on three interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union. With…
Studio 54: The Documentary (2018)
- Dir. Matt Tyrnauer
- In–depth account of how the world's most famous (and infamous) nightclub, Studio 54, was created by co–owners Ian Schrager and Steve…