Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
Life and Debt (2001)
- Dir. Stephanie Black
- A scathingly political look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy…
Party's Over, The (Last Party 2000) (2001)
- Dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore
- A pre–9/11 political doco that still resonates loudly in the George W. Bush era, actor and “concerned citizen” Phillip Seymour Hoffman…
Thirteen Days (2001)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Dylan Baker
- The thirteen tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis – the 1962 showdown between Kennedy and Krushchev – are invested with heroic intensity by…
Tunnel, The (2001)
- Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz
- An extended though by no means deep excavation of German Cold War history, in which an East German swimmer (Ferch) defects to West Berlin in 1961 and…
A Huey P. Newton Story (2000)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Roger Guenveur Smith
- An award–winning stageplay about the co–founder of the Black Panther Party, translated into cinema with considerable verve by dir. Spike…
Contender, The (2000)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges…
- Strongly performed political thriller centred around the confirmation of Vice–Presidential candidate Joan Allen, whose enemies try every trick…
Diplomat, The (2000)
- Dir. Tom Zubrycki
- Panorama of East Timor’s struggle to regain independence from Indonesia following the 1975 invasion, expressed through the 24 year exile of former…
Dirty Pictures (2000)
- Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. James Woods, Craig T. Nelson
- Based on the true–story of how the Chicago Arts Centre was prosecuted in 1990 for obscenity over an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's…
Harlan County War (2000)
- Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgard, Ted Levine…
- Based on the famous (and deadly) Union–vs–Company showdown in a Kentucky coalmine in 1976, this TV docudrama is an Emmy–nominated…
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
- Dir. Elie Chouraqui
Feat. Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Adrien Brody…
- Andie MacDowell searches for her photojournalist husband (David Strathairn), presumed dead in the 1991 Serbian siege of Vukovar, with the aid of…