Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3037 Films to Buy & Rent
Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2009)
- Dir. Sam Bozzo
- This grave and compelling documentary deals with one of the vital issues of our times: the corporatisation and privatisation of water.
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Budrus (2009)
- Dir. Julia Bacha
- Inspiring account of a father and daughter who work to unite Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an attempt to save their village from destruction.
Burma VJ (2009)
- Dir. Anders Ostergaard
- Enterprising guerrilla documentary shows how members of the Democratic Voice of Burma are using miniature handycams to record and disseminate raw…
Capitalism - A Love Story (2009)
- Dir. Michael Moore
- Doco legend Michael Moore comes full circle after detouring with US gun culture (BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE), foreign policy (FAHRENHEIT 9/11), and health…
Chasing The Ghost: New Zealand's P Epidemic (2009)
- Feat. Paul Holmes
- Relevant documentary sees Kiwi broadcaster Paul Holmes investigating New Zealand's 'P' – pure methamphetamine – epidemic, through the…
China Power - Art now after Mao (2009)
- Dir. Pia Getty
- A fascinating glimpse into China's modern art market, reflecting the ironies and contradictions of making art in the country's oppressive political…
Christianity - A History (2009)
- Reasonably thorough and alternative overview of the origins and divergent paths of Christianity. Eight episodes.
Code, The (2009)
- Professor Marcus du Sautoy attempts to codify the numbers, shapes, and patterns that govern the world around us in this engrossing mathematical…
Collapse (2009)
- Dir. Chris Smith
- At once infuriating and absorbing portrait of ex–cop turned conspiracy theorist Michael Ruppert, whose one–man rant spanning crises in…
Cove, The (2009)
- Dir. Louie Psihoyos
- An unusually stylish and suspenseful eco–doc that exposes the gratuitous slaughter of thousands of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji,…