Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3037 Films to Buy & Rent
A Band Called Death (2012)
- Dir. Jeff Howlett, Mark Covino
- Forgotten proto–punk band "Death" are rescued from obscurity in this remarkable and spirited story of three African–American brothers who…
About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now (2012)
- Dir. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
- A who's who of famous models reflect on their time in the spotlight in this fascinating symposium on aging, sexism, race, and the evolution of…
Act of Killing, The (2012)
- Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
- A staggering human rights documentary that elicits (and re–stages) boastful confessions of Indonesia's surviving death squad members, whose…
Africa (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. David Attenborough
- A stunning natural history series – even by the BBC's high standards – which employs state of the art technology to offer a whole new…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
- Dir. Alison Klayman
- As he prepares for a new series of exhibitions, China's most famous contemporary artist and dissident is profiled in this superb documentary.
America Revealed (TV Series) (2012)
- Based on the BBC's "Britain From Above", this all–encompassing series examines the United States through its vast infrastructures, looking at…
Andrew Marr's History of the World (2012)
- A 'definitive' account of human history, according to acclaimed British journalist Andrew Marr, filtered through the 'big stories' of the last 70,000…
Art of America (2012)
- Art critic Andrew Graham–Dixon guides us from the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts to the contemporary art scene in New York and LA in this…
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild (2012)
- Feat. David Attenborough
- A superb tribute to the life and times of the BBC's talismanic natural history host, who revisits the stories behind his award–winning shows…
B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012)
- Dir. Jon Brewer
- Exhaustive documentary on blues legend B.B. King, melding recollections, milestones, and insights from the likes Bill Cosby, Carlos Santana, Bonnie…