Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > History: 239 Films to Buy & Rent
Test, The (2003)
- Television documentary celebrating 100 years of rugby with New Zealand's All Blacks.
Includes interviews with various legends of the game –…
9/11 (2002)
- Dir. Jules Naudet, Gedeon Naudet, James Hanlon
- What started out as an amateur documentary by two French brothers about the New York Fire Department turns into a vital, ground’s–eye view of…
A History of Britain (TV Series) (2002)
- The complete series of Simon Schama's accessible, but provocative look at British history from 3000 BC to 2000 AD.
Disc 1 – Beginnings,…
Adventure of English, The (2002)
- Dir. Robert Bee, David Thomas
- An involving lesson in linguistics, presenter Melvyn Bragg takes us back to the roots of the English language – which found its genesis in…
Kings and Queens (TV Series) (2002)
- A solid TV documentary series tracing lives and reigns of 12 of England's most influential monarchs. Historian Dr Nigel Spivey draws from an array of…
Trials of Henry Kissinger, The (2002)
- Dir. Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki
- A corrosive yet robust investigation that alleges a misuse of power amounting to 'war crimes' by controversial US diplomat Henry Kissinger –…
Weather Underground, The (2002)
- Dir. Sam Green, Bill Siegel
- A stimulating, incisive look back at the angry workings of "The Weathermen", a radical splinter faction of the protest movement who were responsible…
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2001)
- Dir. Othmar Schmiderer, Andre Heller
- 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…
Epitaph (TV Series) (2001)
- Feat. Paul Gittens
- TV series that scours the cemeteries of New Zealand for the intriguing, weird and worthy tales of our ancestor's demises.
Paul Gittens is the…
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…