Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3054 Films to Buy & Rent
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
- Ichikawa produced this 'definitive' sports documentary from the output of over a thousand cameras to capture the fascinating human element behind the…
War Game, The (1965)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
- A bleak, heartbreaking depiction of the events that would follow a nuclear war, that was so powerful the BBC banned it from broadcast for 20 years,…
7 Up / 14 Up (Seven Plus Seven) (1964-1970)
- Dir. Paul Almond, Michael Apted
- The first two parts of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of…
Culloden (1964)
- Dir. Peter Watkins
- A groundbreaking documentary depicting the famous battle in 1746 between the English loyalists and Scottish Jacobites.
Re–enacting this…
Four Days in November (1964)
- Dir. Mel Stuart
- An unbiased view of events surrounding the death of JFK taken from more than eight million feet of newsreel footage encompassing joyous Kennedy…
Guns of August, The (1964)
- Dir. Nathan Kroll
- A World War I documentary based on the writings of Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman that traces the origins and actions of the…
I am Cuba (1964)
- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
- One of the most renowned documentaries of the 1960s, this poetic evocation of Cuba under Batista is today notable for both its quaint politics and…
London in the Raw (1964)
- Dir. Arnold L. Miller, Norman Cohen
- 1960s documentary detailing the sordid underbelly of London, aiming for the shock–value notoriety of Mondo Cane, which was released several…
National Geographic Specials (1964-2012)
Up Series Boxset (7-49UP) (1964-2005)
- Dir. Michael Apted
- All 49 years of Michael Apted's extraordinary documentary series chronicling the evolving lives of ordinary Brits.