Documentary

Non-fiction features and programs, often stranger than fiction, and just as dramatic or comical…

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Anchor Me: The Don Mcglashan Story (2025): Dir. Shirley Horrocks; An uplifting celebration of the legendary kiwi singer songwriter Don Mcglashan. Featuring interviews with Neil Finn, Toa Fraser, and the Mcglashan family. This uplifting tribute is rich with many candid backstage stories and personal moments behind the familiar hits.
Life in One Chord (2025): Dir. Margaret Gordon; Punk renegade Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer) takes us on an iconoclastic tour through a career of highs and lows from suburban Dunedin to the heights of international fame and back again. Dunedin may seem like an unlikely location for a musical revolution, yet it became the locus of an indie…
Marlon Williams: Two Worlds: Nga Ao E Rua (2025): Feat. Marlon Williams; A graceful portrait of the internationally renowned country artist’s journey to record an album entirely in te reo Maori, the result of which, Te Whare Tiwekaweka, will likely become a New Zealand classic. Filmed over four years at home (Ohinehou, Lyttelton) and abroad, and with appearances by fellow…
Sparks Brothers, The (2021): Dir. Edgar Wright; Edgar Wright's inspired documentary about one rock band that has proven successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time. Russell and Ron Mael, the sibling art-rockers have persisted for seven decades in the music biz doing it "their way" through all manner of…
No Other Land (2024): Dir. Basel Adra
Feat. Basel Adra; One of the most important films of the year and winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, NO OTHER LAND is a sobering yet inspiring look at Palestinian resistance under occupation. Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist and lawyer from Masafer Yatta - a group of Palestinian villages in…
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025): Dir. Bernard MacMahon
Feat. Jimmy Page; Becoming Led Zeppelin, a documentary that dives into the rise of the epochal rock group, has been completed. It is the only documentary of its kind that the band themselves have participated in. The documentary, which was first announced in 2019, includes new interviews with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John…
Never Look Away (2024): Dir. Lucy Lawless; Lucy Lawless directs this intimate portrait of a trailblazing female photojournalist and CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth, who fearlessly captures footage of war zones. After receiving catastrophic injuries in the crosshairs of battle, she returns to work with more courage than ever. Features interviews with…