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Rental > Politics & Documentary: 239 Films to Rent
- Julian Assange - A Modern Day Hero? (Inside the World of WikiLeaks) (2011)
- Fascinating, if patchy insight into the media whirlwind created when whistle–blowing website WikiLeaks published the Afghan War documents in…
- Operation 8: Deep in the Forest (2011)
- Dir. Errol Wright, Abi King-Jones
- Cohesive and compelling documentary that gives credible voice to the Maori sovereignty and peace activists who were targeted in police raids and…
- Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
- Renowned documentarian Nick Broomfield journeys to the devoutly evangelical, crystal meth capital of Alaska, in pursuit of Sarah Palin. Interviewing…
- Triangle Wars (2011)
- Dir. Rosie Jones
- Absorbing study of local politics as a community rallies together as developers threaten to convert a prime slice of land into 180 shops.
- Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
- Dir. Alex Gibney
- Another compelling take on high–level corruption from dir. Alex Gibney (ENRON, TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE), this time delivering a weighty account…
- Chasing Madoff (2010)
- Dir. Jeff Prosserman
- Infamous for the 'Ponzi scheme' that defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars, Bernie Madoff is put to the sword in this fascinating…
- Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010)
- Dir. Alex Gibney
- Scandal–laden follow–up to dir. Gibney's excellent doco on Jack 'Casino Jack' Abramoff takes an in–depth look at former New York…
- Draquila - Italy Trembles (2010)
- Dir. Sabina Guzzanti
- Sabina Guzzanti returns once more to do battle with Silvio Berlusconi in this incendiary doc that examines his administration's handling of the…
- God in America (2010)
- Ambitious PBS series tackles more than 500 years of the American religious experience, from the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the 2008…
- Inside Job (2010)
- Dir. Charles Ferguson
- Enraging and comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose…