Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3037 Films to Buy & Rent
Billabong Odyssey (2003)
- Dir. Philip Boston
- Surf documentary with a difference – this chronicles the search by a group of top wave–riders (Shawn Barron, Layne Beachley, Ken…
Block, The (TV Series) (2003)
- Australian reality–TV competition in which couples contest for the best DIY renovation on the block.
Blockade, Landscape, Revue: 3 Films by Sergei Loznitsa (2003-2008)
- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
- Three documentaries from Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (DONBASS).
Landscape (2003, 60 mins) is set at a bus stop in a small village, with the…
Blues Film Collection, The (Soul of a Man, Red, White and Blues, Feel Like Going Home, Godfathers and Sons, Piano Blues, The Road to Memphis, Warming by the Devil's Fire) (2003)
- A lavish collection of Blues documentary features made under the auspices of Martin Scorsese.
Directed by an impressive line up of…
Bright Leaves (2003)
- Dir. Ross McElwee
- One of dir. McElwee's best features, in which he traces his own family history in the tobacco business in typically divergent, distracted and…
Broadway: The Golden Age (2003)
- Dir. Rick McKay
Feat. Bob Fosse, Carol Channing, Carol Burnett…
- Comprehensive documentary about America's most celebrated indigenous art form, Broadway theatre, covering an entire century of New York theatre, and…
Bukowski - Born Into This (2003)
- Dir. John Dullaghan
- Hailed as the "definitive" documentary on the cult novelist and poet Charles Bukowski, whose insights into skidrow Los Angeles in the 1950s and 60s…
Bullshit (TV Series) (Penn & Teller: Bullshit!) (2003)
- Abrasive and profanely cogent, partners in crime Penn & Teller (better known as a gross–out magic duo) turn to their BS–detectors in…
Can DVD (2003)
- The definitive DVD 'document' on influential German Krautrock band Can, who combined rock and funk rhythms, with intriguing instrumental textures and…
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
- Dir. Andrew Jarecki
- Not an easy watch but as compelling as they come, this is a uniquely close–up portrait of a middle–class Jewish family who are ripped…