Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3037 Films to Buy & Rent
Story of the Melbourne Cup, The (2010)
- The race that stops (two) nations is celebrated in this 150–year history of The Melbourne Cup. Features gushing interviews with legendary…
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2010)
- Dir. Kerthy Fix, Gail O’Hara
Feat. Carrie Brownstein, Sarah Silverman, Peter Gabriel…
- Fly–on–the–wall portrait of tragi–comic genius Stephen Merritt, whose distinctive baritone voice, omnivorous musical…
Sweetgrass (2010)
- Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash
- An unsentimental elegy to the American West, this follows the last modern–day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's…
Tabloid (2010)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- Master documentarian Errol Morris tackles the extraordinarily bizarre story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming who was alleged to have abducted…
Teenage Paparazzo (2010)
- Dir. Adrian Grenier
- Adrian Grenier, famous for playing a movie star in the spotlight on TV series ENTOURAGE, turns the camera on a precocious 13–year–old…
This Emotional Life (TV Mini-Series) (2010-2011)
- Self–improvement documentary series focussed on emotional intelligence, which each of three episodes weaving together personal stories with…
Tillman Story, The (2010)
- Dir. Amir Bar-Lev
- Complex portrait of NFL defensive lineman Pat Tillman, who attracted both admiration and controversy by abandoning a professional football career to…
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…
Two Escobars, The (2010)
- Dir. Jeff Zimbalist
- This astonishing documentary conflating crime, politics and sport looks at the famous run of the Colombian football team through to the 1994 World…
Under the Spell of Horses (2010)
- Wonderful, vivid documentary series on the ancient relationship between horse and man. Especially memorable: a spectacular, a five hundred strong…