Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > Film History: 189 Films to Buy & Rent
Becoming Bond (2017)
- Dir. Josh Greenbaum
- A unique documentary/narrative hybrid chronicling the stranger–than–fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic…
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
- Dir. Alexandra Dean
- A revelatory and entertaining portrait of enigmatic Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, whose ravishing beauty consistently belied her brilliant mind,…
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life & Stories of Australian Cinema (2017)
- Dir. Sally Aitken
- Beloved Australian film critic, director and presenter David Stratton is the subject of the documentary A CINEMATIC LIFE, and the presenter of the…
I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
- Dir. Adrian Buitenhuis, Derik Murray
- A loving documentary about the life of renowned actor Heath Ledger. Deliberately eschewing his death at age 28 from a prescription drug overdose, the…
Cameraperson (2016)
- Dir. Kirsten Johnson
- Extraordinary autobiographical documentary by acclaimed cinematographer Kirsten Johnson, who has collected film clips spanning the past 10 years of…
David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
- Dir. Jon Nguyen
- An essential portrait of film–making iconoclast David Lynch, who takes us on an intimate journey from his childhood in idyllic small town…
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
- Dir. Bill Morrison
- Staggering documentary about the miraculous excavation in 1978 of 533 silent film reels, buried in 1929 under a swimming pool or hockey rink in…
My Journey Through French Cinema (Voyage a Travers le Cinema Francais) (2016)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
- Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key…
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)
- Dir. Louise Osmond
- A revealing tribute to the life and career of one of Britain's most eminent film–makers and socially–conscious artists, whose prolific…
A Flickering Truth (2015)
- Dir. Pietra Brettkelly
- In documenting one man’s precarious quest to restore thousands of hours of film heritage in the post–Taliban Kabul, New Zealand filmmaker…