Documentary Sale
Out-of-print Documentary Cinema at up to 50% off...
115 Films.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
- A revelatory and entertaining portrait of enigmatic Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, whose ravishing beauty consistently belied her brilliant mind,…
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City of Ghosts (2017)
- The director of CARTEL LAND lands on Syrian soil for another risk–taking venture that documents the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered…
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Gospel According to Andre, The (2017)
- Intimate portrait of legendary fashion editor André Leon Talley, who began his life in the segregated American South and rose to become one of the…
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Have You Seen the Listers? (2017)
- Masterful documentary on the life of world–renowned Brisbane artist Anthony Lister, exploring his origins as a street artist and his…
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No Ordinary Sheila (2017)
- The immensely inspiring life–story of one Sheila Natusch, nonagenarian natural historian, mountain climber, intrepid cyclist and publisher of…
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Chasing Asylum (2016)
- A hotly topical documentary exposing the real impact of Australia's offshore detention policies and explores how 'The Lucky Country' became one where…
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Gleason (2016)
- Sundance hit documentary exploring the world of football hero Steve Gleason, whose career as defensive back in The New Orleans Saints was tragically…
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Risk (2016)
- The director of CITIZENFOUR focuses on another political dissident, Julian Assange, whom she followed for six years through controversies and…
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Cartel Land (2015)
- Unnerving documentary follows a group of citizens as they attempt to counter drug related crime on the Mexican–American border.
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Free to Run (2015)
- The social history of running is chronicled with extraordinary passion and depth in this examination of the trajectory of running from an elitist,…
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
- A lacerating expose of the inner–workings of the Church of Scientology from prolific truth–seeker Alex Gibney.
Drawing heavily on…
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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2014)
- The definitive story of the "greatest band that never made it", this long overdue documentary tells the story of legendary Memphis band "Big Star",…
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Do I Sound Gay? (2014)
- Amusing documentary about the stereotype of the gay voice as director David Thorpe, recently heartbroken and anxious over the sound of his own voice,…
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Green Prince, The (2014)
- Absorbing account of how a son of a founding leader in the Palestinian organization, Hamas, became a spy for the Israelis.
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Next Goal Wins (2014)
- The rousing underdog story of American Samoa's national football team – officially the worst international team in the world – whose…
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Utopia (2014)
- John Pilger looks at the Aboriginal plight and suppressed colonial past of his native Australia in this hard–hitting documentary which renews…
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Broadway Idiot (2013)
- Flashy, upbeat doco charts the journey of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong from pop–punk rocker to Broadway lead in the stage version of…
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In Bob We Trust (2013)
- Father Bob Maguire, an irreverent Catholic priest with a broad following, fights to stay part of his South Melbourne parish against the wishes of a…
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House I Live In, The (2012)
- The definitive documentary on the 'war on drugs' to date, this canvases the people and the stories on both sides of the law to reveal the profound…
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How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
- This brash expose of drug world mores frames itself knowingly as a 'how to' guide comprised of interviews with dealers, suppliers, law enforcers, and…
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Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer (2012)
- A fascinating plunge into the mindset of Australia’s greatest and most polarizing Olympian, whose record five gold medal haul is challenged as he…
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London: The Modern Babylon (2012)
- Julien Temple directs this vast, illuminating portrait of London, charting the story of its immigrants and bohemians from the beginning of the 20th…
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011)
- Whirlwind portrait of fashion trailblazer Diana Vreeland, a force of nature as former editor of Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.
Known for her…
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Dragonslayer (2011)
- Languidly shot documentary aims to capture the aimlessness and indolence of youth in its portrait of one Josh Sandoval, a 19–year–old pro…
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Dreams of a Life (2011)
- The unknown life of Joyce Vincent is sensitively reconstructed and explored in this troubling documentary about the death of a woman whose body lay…
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Earth Flight (TV Series) (2011)
- A continuation of the BBC's recent theme of documenting wildlife from their point–of–view, this takes in some of the world's greatest…
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El Bulli - Cooking in Progress (2011)
- A treat for culinary aficionados, this rigorous but appetizing fly–on–the–wall doco takes diners behind the scenes of (the now…
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Magic Trip (2011)
- Recovering 16mm footage shot during the maiden voyage of the psychedelic 'Magic Bus', this documentary reassembles a visual snapshot of the legendary…
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Mrs. Carey's Concert (2011)
- Invigorating doco on the power of music. At a Sydney girl's school, Mrs Carey butts head with her obstinate students as they prepare for a…
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Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
- Resonating well beyond the parameters of the news industry, this doco sends out a warning shot on behalf of its beleaguered iconic subject –…
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Pina (2011)
- A dazzling celebration of the late German dance pioneer Pina Bausch, whose challenging and subversive choreography is performed by those who danced…
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POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011)
- SUPER SIZE ME's Morgan Spurlock takes us behind the scenes of product placement and strategic branding while pitching his film's naming rights to a…
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Primeval New Zealand (TV Series) (2011)
- Excellent Kiwi–spun series adopts the WALKING WITH DINOSAURS model of prehistoric life reanimated with CGI effects to illuminate us on New…
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Asylum Pieces (2010)
- Local filmmaker Kathy Dudding charts New Zealand's cultural and medical attitudes towards mental health and institutionalization, with a movingly…
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Babies (2010)
- The first year ahead of four newly born infants from different parts of the world (Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and California) forms the irresistible…
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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
- A would–be filmmaker's documentary on renegade street artist Banksy is turned on its head, becoming an expose of the contemporary art world and…
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Fire in Babylon (2010)
- The West Indies’ late rise from happy–go–lucky ‘calypso cricketers’ to world beaters in the late 70s is the subject of this…
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)
- A ripely entertaining piece of work portraying the famously foul–mouthed, nip–tucked, seventy–something stand–up…
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Just a Beginning (2010)
- An interesting, if unsurprising outcome follows this classroom experiment where a group of French pre–schoolers are educated in the basics of…
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Last Paradise (2010)
- Cinematographer Clive Neeson's poignant, free–spirited documentary on his pioneering adventures in extreme sports.
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Lennon NYC (LennoNYC) (2010)
- Another documentary on John Lennon, but a good one, focusing on the singer–songwriter's period spent in New York (up until his assassination),…
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Murundak - Songs of Freedom (2010)
- The music of the the Black Arm Band rallies this on–the–road concert film, as they gather some of Australia’s finest Indigenous…
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Waste Land (2010)
- Brazilian photographer Vik Muniz visits the world's largest rubbish dump, located outside Rio de Janeiro, to develop a unique artistic collaboration…
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Good Hair (2009)
- Comedian Chris Rock explores cultural identity by way of black America's obsession with hair in this warm and witty social documentary.
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His & Hers (His and Hers) (2009)
- A collection of straight–talking vignettes informs this sweet, affecting, often witty documentary in which Irish women of all ages talk about…
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Last Train Home (2009)
- A startling and vivid humanist documentary on China's ceaseless industrial growth, centred on one couple who make the annual migration from city to…
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Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009)
- Joss Stone, John Legend, Wyclef Jean, and The Roots, among others, perform tribute covers of freedom songs from the American Civil Rights movement in…
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Who Killed Nancy? (2009)
- Under Sid Vicious' mother's posthumous request, rock author Alan Parker directs this intensive documentary in order to re–examine the supposed…
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Anvil: The Story of Anvil (2008)
- Not a mock–umentary as you might suspect, but just as amusing and vital as the iconic parody SPINAL TAP, this tells the…
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Burning Season, The (2008)
- Ever–urgent documentary on the climate–change problem tracks “environmental entrepreneur” Dorjee Sun’s efforts to seal a major…
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I Am Because We Are (2008)
- Madonna wields her global celebrity in fronting this concerned documentary about the millions of children orphaned by HIV and AIDS in Malawi.
A…
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Man On Wire (2008)
- Oscar–winning doco about a truly remarkable, one–of–a–kind subject; a cavalier French daredevil called Phillipe Petit who in…
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Powerful Noise, A (2008)
- AIDS, peacekeeping, and the rights of the disenfranchised are front and centre of this inspirational portrait of three women making a difference in…
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Third Richard, The (2008)
- A labour of love for actor–director Danny Mulheron, this explores the life and music of his unheralded grandfather, Richard Fuchs, a gifted…
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Youssou N’Dour - I Bring What I Love (2008)
- Gifted Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour performs a series of concerts in this excellent documentary, which also gets to heart of the musician’s…
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A Very British Gangster (2007)
- Gay Manchester mob kingpin/community lynchpin Dominic Noonan is the main subject of this fly–on–the–wall look at his criminal…
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Amazing Journey - The Story of The Who (2007)
- An ‘authorized and definitive’ anthology of The Who, this covers all the bases in the band’s legend–making, four–decade music…
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Garbage Warrior (2007)
- Revealing documentary featuring eco architect Michael Reynolds who has spent the past three decades creating sustainable housing in the New Mexico…
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Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts (2007)
- Epic doco of seminal composer Glass covers his life, influences, and his working process.
Filmed over 3 continents in 18 months, this is hugely…
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Joy Division (2007)
- Dynamic, satisfyingly comprehensive music doco chronologically tracks the career of influential British post–punk band Joy Division.
All…
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Send A Bullet (Manda Bala) (2007)
- Unsettling doco exposing the corrupted underbelly of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where abduction, political fraud and torture runs rife.
A protege of…
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
- Academy Award–winning documentary from the dir. of ENRON exposing the darker impulses of the US forces through the true story of an Afghani…
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Trumbo (2007)
- Prominent blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo – the most famed of the alleged Communist sympathising ‘Hollywood 10’ – is the honoree of…
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Up The Yangtze (2007)
- The large–scale transformation of the Yangtze River through the construction of the Three Gorges Dam is examined intimately through the eyes of…
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Walk Into The Sea, A (Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory) (2007)
- Peripheral Factory filmmaker and one–time Warhol lover Danny Williams is the subject of this intriguing doco directed by his niece, which…
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Young @ Heart (Young at Heart) (2007)
- A stirring, crowd–pleasing music doco for ages 9 to 99 that introduces a spritely senior citizen choir known as 'Young @ Heart' who are…
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An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- Stark and compelling warning about the imminent effects of climate change – largely being stoked by carbon emissions from human activities…
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Black Gold (2006)
- Urgent, surprisingly constructive expose of world coffee trade, tackling the exploitation of third world bean farmers by corporations, middlemen, and…
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Crude Awakening, A (Oil Crash) (2006)
- Impending doom in the form of ‘peak oil’ is the subject of this bleak environmental documentary, designed to scare industry and consumers alike…
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Hero's Journey, A (2006)
- President Xanana Gusmao presides over this documentary portrait of East Timor, its Resistance war against Indonesian occupation, and its current…
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Kurt Cobain - About a Son (2006)
- Elegiac, moving documentary on Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain takes an appositely nonconformist approach to his unusual life and times.
Based on…
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Planet Earth (TV Series) (2006)
- One of the most expensive and ambitious nature documentary series ever attempted, the reliable grave tones of Sir David Attenborough guide this…
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Waves (2006)
- Shot with empathy and an open heart, this fine documentary on the arrival of four Chinese high school students to New Zealand offers rare insight…
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Anatomy for Beginners (2005)
- Grotesque but rather fascinating documentary series in which anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Prof. John Lee systematically dissect…
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Brasileirinho (2005)
- Choro is often seen as the Brazilian equivalent of improvisatory jazz, and serves as the foundation for such unique styles like samba and bossa nova…
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
- Cautionary documentary about the stellar rise and unseemly 2001 collapse of one of America's largest corporations – Enron – which…
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Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005)
- Issues of redemption and reform underlie this strangely moving account of a troupe of male convicts in a Kentucky correctional facility who, over the…
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Townes Van Zandt - Be Here to Love Me (2005)
- Evenhanded, tenderly–puzzled documentary about the country songwriter Townes Van Zandt (1944–1997), creator of a canon of forlorn, quirky…
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Wal-Mart - The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
- Although rough around the edges, this documentary expose of the business, employment and environmental practices of giant American retail corporation…
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Boy Who Plays On The Buddhas of Bamiyan, The (2004)
- A picturesque and moving documentary which follows in the footsteps of an impoverished family living in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, where a gigantic stone…
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Control Room (2004)
- An important documentary that tunes in to the other side of the Iraq War through the "Control Rooms" of both the leading Arab TV station, 'Al…
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Last Trapper, The (2004)
- Doco–drama covers a year in the life of real, live fur trapper Norman Winter who lives at one with nature, his Native American partner…
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Metallica - Some Kind of Monster (2004)
- A compulsive documentary spectacle concerning the years of crisis (2001–2003) for Heavy Metal group "Metallica" as they grappled with internal…
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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2004)
- Using the propulsive docu–drama style of the BEYOND IMAGINATION series, this illuminates the stories behind seven great achievements of the…
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Shake Hands With the Devil (The Journey of Roméo Dallaire) (2004)
- Arresting account of the deplorable Rwandan genocide, told through the eyes of one of the most controversial figures surrounding the 1994 massacre,…
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State of Mind, A (2004)
- An astonishing effort from British dir. Gordon, who documents life in the closed society of North Korea from the perspective of two young girls…
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Take, The (2004)
- A feisty documentary about the aftermath of Argentina's disastrous economic 'crash' in 2001 and how a group of unemployed workers attempt to occupy…
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Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The (2004)
- The unlikely tale of a homeless street musician in San Francisco, Mark Bittner, and his longtime attachment to a flock of wild parrots…
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Super Size Me (2003)
- Entertaining expose of the evils of 'fast food', in which the filmmaker uses himself as a human guinea–pig by embarking on a 30–day,…
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Touching the Void (2003)
- A documentary spectacle that recreates a mountaineering disaster in the Peruvian Andes and the heart–pounding, agonizing bid for survival…
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Amandla! (A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony) (2002)
- A moving tribute to the role of protest music in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa from 1948 to 1994 – slowly put together by dir.…
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Biggie and Tupac (2002)
- Plucky British journalist and one–man controversy machine Nick Broomfield embarks on his most dangerous documentary enquiry yet – the…
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Bus 174 (2002)
- A riveting analysis of an incident in Rio de Janeiro in June 2000 in which a lone, desperate gunman held hostage the passengers of a bus, while the…
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Kid Stays in the Picture, The (2002)
- Unique auto–documentary about Hollywood 'super–producer' Robert Evans who put together pictures like THE GODFATHER and…
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Live Forever (2002)
- A self–congratulatory, and often hilarious, documentary on the 1990s rock–pop 'movement' Britpop, which encompassed acts such as Oasis,…
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Lost in La Mancha (2002)
- A cautionary fable of filmmaking in the mould of HEARTS OF DARKNESS, concerning director Terry Gilliam’s (BRAZIL) attempt to film a version of…
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Noam Chomsky: Power and Terror In Our Times (2002)
- A no–frills TV documentary (made in Japan) in which arch–media critic and philosopher Noam Chomsky, examines the post–9’11 world,…
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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…
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Evolution (TV Series) (2001)
- Thorough and rigorous seven–part PBS series extols – and not without wading into the science vs. religion debate – the virtues of Charles…
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Jazz (2001)
- Sprawling and absorbing documentary series from the maker of THE CIVIL WAR, charting the rising star of jazz during the 20th century, with an…
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Life and Debt (2001)
- A scathingly political look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy…
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Our People Our Century (2000)
- Major, award–winning series tells the story of New Zealand and its people throughout the 20th century. Six episodes across three…
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From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) (1998)
- Truly epic dramatisation of the Apollo space programme – produced by Tom Hanks after the success of APOLLO 13 – which looks at the entire…
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Kurt and Courtney (1997)
- Not even an unofficial biography of 'Nirvana', Kurt Cobain or Courtney Love, but instead a wickedly amusing slice of pop–cultural…
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Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1996)
- Further pushing out a signature style that impresses technique as much as subject, dir. Errol Morris here takes real life as a mere starting point…
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West, The (TV Series) (1996)
- Steered by a protégé of documentary–guru Ken Burns (JAZZ), this epic TV–study of the conquest and reshaping of the American West shares…
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War Room, The (1993)
- Going behind the scenes with the men behind Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign reveals there to be an exact science beneath the media…
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Gully-ites, The (1992)
- A slice of character–filled life filmed in our own backyard, this is a heartwarming insight into a community with a unique history, capturing…
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Roger and Me (1990)
- A brilliantly irreverant personal odyssey by the film–maker who, equipped with a mic and a camera, endeavours to extract comment from General…
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John Pilger's Return Ticket (South Africa: Apartheid Did Not Die; Frontline: In Search Of Truth In Wartime; Vietnam: The Last Battle) (1988-1995)
- John Pilger revisits the remnants of war, stained politics, and social injustice in this fifth volume of his hard–hitting documentary…
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John Pilger's The New Rulers of the World (The New Rulers of the World; War By Other Means; Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War) (1984-2001)
- Three more essential documentaries from journalist John Pilger, with the emphasis on big business, globalisation, and the plight of the Third…
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Ascent of Man, The (TV Series) (1973)
- Renowned TV series from the era of epic–length documentaries, this analyses the progress of mankind through scientific and technological…
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World At War, The (1973)
- Epic – both in length and scope – series that comprehensively examines the second World War. Assembling a vast array of rare footage and…
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Civilisation (TV Series) (1969)
- "Not a history of the arts, but a history of life–giving beliefs and ideas made visible and audible through the medium of art." Kenneth Clark's…
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Time to Remember, A - New Zealand Edition (Movietone Edition) (1930-1975)
- Comprehensive archive of New Zealand Cinesound and Movietone newsreels, from 1930–1975. Surveying five decades of Kiwi history and heritage,…
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