Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
Machuca (2004)
- Dir. Andres Wood
Feat. Ariel Mateluna, Matias Quer
- Observing the onset of Augusto Pinochet's bloody coup d'etat in Chile in 1973, through the eyes of two boys who become friends across the…
Manchurian Candidate, The (2004)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber…
- Slickly modernised version of the Cold War classic, tailors its twisted fable of political paranoia into a complex speculation on military, political…
Mondovino (2004)
- Dir. Jonathan Nossiter
- A sobering documentary about the effects of globalisation on the wine industry, which travels to various vineyards, villages and offices to quaff a…
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
- Dir. Robert Greenwald
- Hot off the press, and of scorching topicality in the run up to the 2004 American Elections, this cogent piece of agit–prop convincingly argues…
Persona Non Grata (2004)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
- Dir. Stone's second documentary in a proposed trilogy about world leaders (after COMMANDANTE) has the frazzled American attempt to gain an interview…
Peter, Paul and Mary - Carry it On (2004)
- Documentary about the New York folk music trio who "carried it on" from their socially–conscious forebearers like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger…
Poster Boy (2004)
- Dir. Zak Tucker
Feat. Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Jack Noseworthy…
- A campaigning right–wing senator conscripts his closeted gay son to play happy families for the public, but the stakes are raised when the son…
Power of Nightmares, The (2004)
- Dir. Adam Curtis
- Another provocative documentary from dir. Curtis, this time out he examines how political parties have created and used fears in order to maintain…
President Versus David Hicks, The (2004)
- Dir. Curtis Levy
- Timely, if 'difficult' documentary which follows the efforts of the father of 'Australian Taliban' fighter David Hicks, to free his son from US…
Red Dust (2004)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor
- A boldly straightforward courtroom drama set during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission era of post–Apartheid South Africa, where a former…