Subgenre Sampler
Rental > History: 388 Films to Rent
- Roots (TV Mini-Series) (2016)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles, Thomas Carter
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke…
- A powerful new adaptation of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This tragic story of resilience is told in four parts covering four…
- Story of God, The (TV Series) (2016)
- Feat. Morgan Freeman
- Ambitious cross–cultural survey of what God means to people and how religion has shaped world history , narrated and produced by Morgan…
- Tutankhamun (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Max Irons, Jonathan Aris, Sam Neill…
- A four–part dramatisation of how a penniless, ostracised archaeologist named Howard Carter became a household name following his discovery of…
- Althea (2015)
- PBS documentary account of the story of Althea Gibson, a truant from the tough streets of Harlem, who overcame extraordinary odds to becomes the…
- Banished (TV Mini-series) (2015)
- Feat. Orla Brady, Ewen Bremner, MyAnna Buring…
- British period drama created by Jimmy McGovern (CRACKER), set in the 18th century in the first penal colony founded by the British in New South…
- Cancer - The Emperor of All Maladies (2015)
- Dir. Barak Goodman
- Ken Burns produced this illuminating study of Cancer from its first mention in Egyptian scrolls to the present day medical laboratories where the…
- Dawn of Humanity (2015)
- National Geographic documentary focusing on a 2013 fossil discovery and the 2–year excavation process that followed, with insights into how…
- Francofonia (2015)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath
- A richly evocative and insightful historical cine–essay from celebrated dir. Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK) that charts the relationship…
- Story of China with Michael Wood, The (TV Series) (2015)
- Feat. Michael Wood
- Veteran historian and broadcaster Michael Wood follows his celebrated Story of India with this in–depth portrait of the most populous country…
- From Scotland With Love (2014)
- Scottish history as told through a vast collection of real home movie and archival footage, this is a charming filmic tapestry of everyday family…