Subgenre Sampler
Politics & Documentary: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
Trumbo (2007)
- Dir. Peter Askin
Feat. Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, Donald Sutherland…
- Prominent blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo – the most famed of the alleged Communist sympathising ‘Hollywood 10’ – is the honoree of…
War / Dance (War Dance) (2007)
- Life–affirming Oscar–nominated doco investigates the lives of a group of war–torn Ugandan child refugees on their path towards…
War on Democracy, The (2007)
- Dir. John Pilger, Chris Martin
- John Pilger continues his crusade against U.S foreign policy with this informative, persuasively polemical documentary about the manipulation and…
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006)
- Dir. Patty Kim, Chris Sheridan
- This startling, blow–by–blow account of a notorious Japanese abduction reveals a staggering conspiracy at the heart of a…
Crossing the Line (2006)
- Dir. Daniel Gordon
- Documentary on the extraordinary defection of James Dresnok, an American military deserter to North Korea in 1962, who now resides permanently in the…
Cuba - A Lifetime Of Passion (2006)
- Dir. Glenn Gebhard
- With unprecedented access on either side of the Florida Straits, this comprehensive, and beautifully shot documentary highlights the complexity of…
Death of a President (2006)
- Dir. Gabriel Range
- An audacious faux–documentary that contrives an utterly convincing scenario around the fictional assassination of President George W.…
Flock of Dodos (2006)
- Dir. Randy Olson
- A humourous take on the great American evolution vs 'intelligent design' debate, this doco pits talking heads from both sides against each other to…
Freedom's Fury (2006)
- Dir. Colin K. Gray, Megan Raney
- Sport and politics mix in this gripping account of a hotly contested water polo semifinal between Hungary and the Soviet Union during the 1956…
Global Haywire (2006)
- Dir. Bruce Petty
- Unruly political doco by celebrated Australian cartoonist and moviemaker Bruce Petty, that seeks to answer why the East and West have reached crisis…