Subgenre Sampler
Television: 2929 Films to Buy & Rent
Lost World, The (TV Series) (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World) (1999-2002)
- Feat. Peter McCauley, William Snow, Rachel Blakely
- Enjoyably cheesy Antipodean TV show based loosely on Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy–adventure set at the dawn of the 20th century where a band of…
Louis Theroux's - The Collection (Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met....) (1999)
- Four disc set compiling the best of the affable Louis Theroux, drawing from his three series to date.
More disarming than Borat, Theroux’s…
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Brian Grant
Feat. Gerard Butler
- Romantic drama based on the top selling chick lit novel by Marian Keyes following the life and loves of a twenty–something living in London.…
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999)
- Feat. Michael Palin
- The fourth of Michael Palin's travel series with the BBC, this one recounts the life of author Ernest Hemingway, as Palin travels to places that…
New Zealand Wars, The (1999)
- Dir. James Belich
Feat. James Belich
- Praised, yet inevitably controversial documentary series on New Zealand's 19th century history, in particular the various land–wars between…
Oliver Twist (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Renny Rye
Feat. Alan Bleasdale, Julie Walters, Robert Lindsay…
- Charles Dickens' enduring classic of orphan Oliver's hardships in Victorian London.
Here the timeless story gets the lavish six hour treatment at…
Queer as Folk (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam…
- Groundbreaking television drama that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Eight…
Relic Hunter (TV Series) (1999-2002)
- Feat. Tia Carrere
- Camp action series about a hot history professor – with a black belt – who travels the globe searching for ancient artifacts, returning…
Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in all the World (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Q. Allan Brocka
- Deliciously offensive grown–up animation tracking the lives of a gay couple Rick and Steve whose cosy little West Lahunga Beach existence is…
River Cottage (TV Series) (1999-2008)
- Earthbound Hugh Fearnly–Whittingstall gets back–to–basics with this endearing, soulful television series about living off the…