Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3037 Films to Buy & Rent
Last Days, The (1999)
- Dir. James Moll
- Accompanied by return visits to their homeland and the Nazi death camps, five Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust recount their remarkable stories…
Life and Art - Maria Callas (1999)
- Dir. Alan Lewens, Alistair Mitchell
Feat. Maria Callas
- Sympathetic documentary concerning the life and art of famed opera singer Maria Callas. Features extracts from 'Tosca', "Norma', 'Barber of Seville',…
Life of Python, The (1999)
- Feat. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam…
- The BBC celebrates 30 years of Monty Python with new sketches and a plethora of guest appearances.
Volume One:
"Pythonland" – Journey with…
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…
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…
Millennium (1999)
- Dir. Various
- Exhaustive history of the last thousand years, taken from the book by Felipe Fernandez–Armesto and presented by CNN. Refreshingly deals not…
Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr (1999)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- Another wholly idiosyncratic and remarkable work from documentarian Errol Morris, this time with the human oddity factor turned up to a…
My Best Fiend (Mein Liebster Feind) (1999)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog
- Werner Herzog’s personal portrait of his friend and famous ‘alter ego’, the late Klaus Kinski, threads together just some of the bizarre…
New York: A Documentary Film (1999-2003)
- Dir. Ric Burns
- Grand and compelling PBS portrait of New York City in the vein of Ken Burns's fulsome documentaries (incidentally, directed by younger brother Ric)…
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…