Recommended: Documentary
77 Documentary Films we think you’ll enjoy
Daughter from Danang (2002)
- A moving and troubling documentary about Heidi Bub, the daughter of an American serviceman and a poor Vietnamese woman, born in Danang and raised in…
- Poster (VG) $9.95
Decasia: The State of Decay (2002)
- Highly original experimental film that achieves a stunning aesthetic and haunting visual poetry by compiling an array of found archival film footage…
- DVD $49.95
Smashing Machine, The (The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr) (2002)
- Intense and strangely moving look at the life of Mark Kerr, the most successful and celebrated combatant in the (now banned) Ultimate Fighting…
- DVD $29.95
Blerta - The Return Trip... (Blerta Revisited) (2001)
- Less a nostalgia 'trip' than a brilliant compendium of manic moments from New Zealand's 1970's travelling roadshow of anarchic performance –…
- DVD $40
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2001)
- The astonishing true story of Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, who at the age of 80 comes to terms with working alongside unspeakable evil…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
Blue Planet, The (TV Series) (2001)
- Breathtaking footage of our planet’s largest feature – the ocean – reveals wondrous worlds within this still almost completely unexplored…
- DVD
$30 $22.50
Ram Dass Fierce Grace (2001)
- A remarkable documentary portrait of one–time Harvard professor Richard Alpert, who in the 1960s began an epic spiritual voyage through LSD and…
- Poster (G) $9.95, Poster (VG) $12.95
My Best Fiend (Mein Liebster Feind) (1999)
- Werner Herzog’s personal portrait of his friend and famous ‘alter ego’, the late Klaus Kinski, threads together just some of the bizarre…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
New Zealand Wars, The (1999)
- Praised, yet inevitably controversial documentary series on New Zealand's 19th century history, in particular the various land–wars between…
- DVD
$25 $18.75, $25 $18.75
Modulations (1998)
- Sub–captioned "Cinema for the Ear", this is an enlightening exposition of electronic music – a marginalised yet broadly significant music…
- Poster (VG) $12.95