Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > History: 239 Films to Buy & Rent
Turn Back Time (TV Series) (2010)
- Illuminating series that takes a group of modern shopkeepers and has them experience their occupations through differing periods of history beginning…
100 Years - 20th Century Almanac (2009)
- Witness the most significant events of the 20th Century, from the Wright Brothers’ first flight to the moon landing, from WWI to the end of the…
Age Of Stupid (2009)
- Dir. Franny Armstrong
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite
- Confronting and dynamic docodrama from the director of McLibel, has Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, looking…
America Before Columbus (2009)
- Intriguing revisionist documentary considers America before Columbus stepped ashore in 1492 as an 'Old World', whose inhabitants had built a vast…
Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain (TV Series) (2009)
- Following on from his "History of Modern Britain", Andrew Marr this time overviews the first half of the 20th Century, re–visiting the dramas…
Christianity - A History (2009)
- Reasonably thorough and alternative overview of the origins and divergent paths of Christianity. Eight episodes.
Empire of the Word (2009)
- Ambitious, page–turning companion piece to THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH chronicles the act of reading across five thousand years of history. Host…
Hitler's Bodyguard (TV Series) (2009)
- 13–part documentary series offering a thorough, at times incredible, examination of the men who protected Adolf Hitler against numerous…
Hunting the Lost Symbol (2009)
- Dir. John Tindall
- Dan Brown–inspired documentary uses the author's blockbusting 'Da Vinci Code' novel as a launching pad to shed light on, among other…
South (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Marcus Lush
- Another "love story" from intrepid broadcaster Marcus Lush, who this time explores the South Island of New Zealand, an area he fell in love with…