Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3048 Films to Buy & Rent
Wonders of the Solar System (TV Series) (2010)
- Feat. Professor Brian Cox
- Extraordinary 5–part BBC series that takes the latest images beamed back from the fleet of probes, rovers and telescopes currently circulating…
100 Years - 20th Century Almanac (2009)
- Witness the most significant events of the 20th Century, from the Wright Brothers’ first flight to the moon landing, from WWI to the end of the…
9/11: Blueprint for Truth (The Te Papa Lecture) (2009)
- Dir. Colin Hodson
- Speaking at Te Papa Museum in Wellington, late 2009, American architect Richard Gage presents further evidence (or complete bullshit, depending on…
A Good Man (2009)
- Dir. Safina Uberoi
- A strange and surprisingly beautiful documentary about an Australian sheep farmer who decides to cover his quadriplegic wife's medical expenses by…
Afghan Star (2009)
- Dir. Havana Marking
- Islamic fundamentalism and pop music commericalism make uneasy bedfellows in this vital, eye–opening documentary that follows the fortunes of…
Age Of Stupid (2009)
- Dir. Franny Armstrong
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite
- Confronting and dynamic docodrama from the director of McLibel, has Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, looking…
All Tomorrow's Parties (2009)
- Dir. Jonathan Caouette
- The cult music festival as viewed through a kaleidoscope of Super 8, camcorder and mobile phone footage taken by various filmmakers, fans and…
America Before Columbus (2009)
- Intriguing revisionist documentary considers America before Columbus stepped ashore in 1492 as an 'Old World', whose inhabitants had built a vast…
America's Hardest Prisons (TV Series) (2009)
- Four–part National Geographic series that takes the viewer into the middle of the hellish place that is prison life in America, where the…
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)
- Dir. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
Feat. Bill Hicks
- The belligerent standup comedian is posthumously honored in this thorough, well–rounded portrait that, if a little too gushing in its…