Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
JFK's Women (2000)
- Revealing, if tabloid–esque expose of philandering in the White House: not Bill Clinton, but John F. Kennedy, whose affairs with four women may…
John Pilger's No Middle Ground in the Middle East (Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq; Palenstine is Still the Issue; Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror) (2000-2003)
- Dir. John Pilger, Alan Lowery
Feat. John Pilger
- Three of journalist John Pilger’s most recent and cogent illustrations of the plight of the Middle East, with Iraq, foreign policy, Israel and…
Lumumba (2000)
- Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Eric Ebouaney
- A strident and fittingly uncompromising biopic about an African political icon, Patrice Lumumba, who liberated the Congo from Belgium in the late…
Most Fertile Man in Ireland, The (2000)
- Dir. Dudi Appleton
Feat. Kris Marshall, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Bronagh Gallagher
- Kris Marshall is the Irishman with the high sperm–count, who is recruited by Catholics and Protestants alike to boost their numbers.…
North Korea (Three Documentaries on the Despotic Regime of Kim Jong-Il) (2000-2003)
- Topical and timely companion of three documentaries on the ostracised state of North Korea:
‘Nuclear Nightmare: Understanding North…
Rebels with a Cause (2000)
- Dir. Helen Garvy
- Straight–up look at the 'Students for a Democratic Society', the student group that began as pro–civil rights organization concerned with…
Arlington Road (1999)
- Dir. Mark Pellington
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Hope Davis…
- Intelligent terrorist thriller, seemingly inspired by events at Waco and Oklahoma City, weaves a complex tale of deception and paranoia around…
Awful Truth, The (TV Series) (1999)
- Dir. Michael Moore
Feat. Michael Moore
- Find out what's really going on in America with merciless media activist Michael Moore, fighting for the common man against the evil–doers of…
Big Brass Ring, The (1999)
- Dir. George Hickenlooper
Feat. William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Irene Jacob…
- Curiosity–piece that updates a dusty Orson Welles script from 1980. William Hurt plays a US presidential candidate, whose murky past is being…
Campaign (1999)
- Dir. Tony Sutorius
- Close–up account of the cracking political contest for the marginal seat of Wellington Central during the 1996 general election, given a…