Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 629 Films to Buy & Rent
Churchills, The (1995)
- Dir. Greg Lanning
- Composed primarily of archival footage, this profiles Winston Churchill and the role his family played during his time as the nation's leader.…
Cry, The Beloved Country (1995)
- Dir. Darrell Roodt
Feat. James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Tsholofelo Wechoemang…
- Dignified modern adaptation of Alan Paton's moving novel about a black South African priest and the wealthy father of a murdered white activist.…
Infiltrator, The (1995)
- Dir. John Mackenzie
Feat. Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Alex Kingston…
- Israeli journalist Oliver Platt infiltrates the modern–day German neo–Nazi movement to his considerable peril. Made all the more gripping…
Moruroa - The Big Secret (1995)
- Dir. Michel Daeron
- A damning indictment of French nuclear testing program in the South Pacific. A French team investigate the impact of the tests on the neighbouring…
Nixon (1995)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Ed Harris…
- With almost Shakespearian gravitas, Anthony Hopkins portrays a flawed but fully–rounded Richard Nixon. Instead of the anticipated whitewash,…
Truman (1995)
- Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. Gary Sinise
- Gary Sinise stars in this biographical tribute to the humble American president who had the misfortune of having to give the order to drop the…
White Man's Burden (1995)
- Dir. Desmond Nakano
Feat. John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch
- In an alternative America, blacks are members of social elite, and whites inhabit the urban ghettos. John Travolta plays a humble white factory…
Beyond Rangoon (1994)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Patricia Arquette
- The tragedies mount for a young doctor taking a recuperating holiday in late eighties Burma, on the eve of a violent crackdown by the ruling…
Burnt By the Sun (1994)
- Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
Feat. Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
- Oscar–winning drama contrasts sunlit Chekhovian lyricism with the dark undercurrents of Stalinist Russia during the "Great Purge", when…
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer…
- Vulnerable hero Jack Ryan again in meatier, superior follow–up to PATRIOT GAMES that masterfully stages its action around a credible, complex…