Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3053 Films to Buy & Rent
Risk (2016)
- Dir. Laura Poitras
- The director of CITIZENFOUR focuses on another political dissident, Julian Assange, whom she followed for six years through controversies and…
Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)
- Dir. Matt Schrader
- An interesting insight into the art of composing film scores that gleans commentary from a diverse range of more than 60 composers (including Hans…
Sidemen (Sidemen: Long Road to Glory) (2016)
- Dir. Scott D. Rosenbaum
- Celebratory tribute to the lives and music of three blues greats: piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith and guitarist Hubert…
Soundbreaking (TV Series) (Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music) (2016)
- Soundbreaking explores the history of recorded music. Featuring more than 150 original interviews, the series charts a century's worth of innovation…
Story of God, The (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Morgan Freeman
- Ambitious cross–cultural survey of what God means to people and how religion has shaped world history , narrated and produced by Morgan…
Tickled (2016)
- Dir. David Farrier, Dylan Reeve
- Utterly engrossing documentary from Kiwi journo David Farrier, who stumbles into the bizarre world of "competitive tickling" that leads him on an…
Tracking Edith (2016)
- Dir. Peter Stephan Jungk
- Documentary about the brilliant photographer Edith Tudor–Hart, who led a double life as a KGB agent and was instrumental in the recruitment of…
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…
Weiner (2016)
- Dir. Josh Kriegman, Elyyse Steinberg
- Shockingly funny all–access doco that exposes the machinations of a political campaign following former congressman Anthony Weiner's earnest…
Whiteley (2016)
- Dir. James Bogle
- A vivid and stimulating chronicle of the life and art of troubled Australian painter Brett Whiteley, who died in 1992 at the age of 53, and helped to…