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Rental > Politics & Documentary: 213 Films to Rent
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (An Inconvenient Truth 2) (2017)
- Dir. Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen
- The heroic and haggard Al Gore continues his crusade to make the world stop destroying itself in this timely update of his seminal 2006 climate…
My Year With Helen (2017)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
- With unique access to high–ranking candidate Helen Clark, filmmaker Gaylene Preston casts a wry eye on proceedings as the United Nations turns…
All Governments Lie (All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone) (2016)
- Dir. Fred Peabody
- Documentary about independent journalism inspired by iconoclastic rebel journalist I. F. Stone, offering a timely critique of American mainstream…
Chasing Asylum (2016)
- Dir. Eva Orner
- A hotly topical documentary exposing the real impact of Australia's offshore detention policies and explores how 'The Lucky Country' became one where…
Risk (2016)
- Dir. Laura Poitras
- The director of CITIZENFOUR focuses on another political dissident, Julian Assange, whom she followed for six years through controversies and…
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)
- Dir. Louise Osmond
- A revealing tribute to the life and career of one of Britain's most eminent film–makers and socially–conscious artists, whose prolific…
Weiner (2016)
- Dir. Josh Kriegman, Elyyse Steinberg
- Shockingly funny all–access doco that exposes the machinations of a political campaign following former congressman Anthony Weiner's earnest…
Best of Enemies (2015)
- Dir. Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
- Riveting account of the frequently explosive televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley that transfixed…
Black Panthers, The: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
- Dir. Stanley Nelson Jr
- Well–crafted doco that examines the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial…
Emperor's New Clothes, The (2015)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Russell Brand
- Russell Brand and Michael Winterbottom team up to present this angry, but also blackly funny, examination of the growing disparity between different…