Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3037 Films to Buy & Rent
Travelling Birds (Winged Migration) (2002)
- Dir. Jacques Perrin, Michel Debats, Jacques Cluzaud
- Anyone with an appreciation of natural beauty will be transfixed, and possibly transported, by this superlative documentary from the makers 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 –…
True Meaning of Pictures, The (Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia) (2002)
- Dir. Jennifer Baichwal
- A provocative look at the work of American photographer Shelby Lee Adams, whose images of impoverished Appalachian life have earned him a reputation…
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002)
- Dir. Richard R. Perez, Joan Sekler, Robert Greenwald
- Astute examination of the controversial battle for the presidency in Florida from an unabashed pro–Democrat viewpoint that asserts that the…
Vietnam's Unseen War - Pictures from the Other Side (2002)
- National Geographic documentary focuses on the unusual perspective of North Vietnamese photojournalists who covered the Vietnam War from the…
Walking with Beasts (2002)
- Further CGI–enhanced recreations of the prehistoric era, here the post–dinosaur age of sabre–toothed tigers, mastadons and woolly…
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…
You See Me Laughin' (2002)
- Dir. Mandy Stein
- Doco about the latterday backwoods blues musicians clustered around the Fat Possum label. Includes R L Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Cedell Davis,…
American Mullet (2001)
- Dir. Jennifer Arnold
- Less hair–raising than affectionate documentary about that most controversial of hairstyles; the mullet.
Going on the road in her "mullet…
Architecture (TV Series) (2001-2005)
- Dir. Stan Neumann, Richard Copans, Frederic Compain
- Inspiring series devoted to the most ambitious creations of the 19th and 20th century. Featuring a wealth of archival material, scale–models…