Recommended: Documentary
74 Documentary Films we think you’ll enjoy
Blerta - The Return Trip... (Blerta Revisited) (2001)
- Less a nostalgia 'trip' than a brilliant compendium of manic moments from New Zealand's 1970's travelling roadshow of anarchic performance –…
- DVD $40
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2001)
- The astonishing true story of Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, who at the age of 80 comes to terms with working alongside unspeakable evil…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
Blue Planet, The (TV Series) (2001)
- Breathtaking footage of our planet’s largest feature – the ocean – reveals wondrous worlds within this still almost completely unexplored…
- DVD
$30 $22.50
Ram Dass Fierce Grace (2001)
- A remarkable documentary portrait of one–time Harvard professor Richard Alpert, who in the 1960s began an epic spiritual voyage through LSD and…
- Poster (G) $9.95, Poster (VG) $12.95
My Best Fiend (Mein Liebster Feind) (1999)
- Werner Herzog’s personal portrait of his friend and famous ‘alter ego’, the late Klaus Kinski, threads together just some of the bizarre…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
New Zealand Wars, The (1999)
- Praised, yet inevitably controversial documentary series on New Zealand's 19th century history, in particular the various land–wars between…
- DVD
$25 $18.75, $25 $18.75
Modulations (1998)
- Sub–captioned "Cinema for the Ear", this is an enlightening exposition of electronic music – a marginalised yet broadly significant music…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
Looking for Richard (1996)
- Al Pacino's pet project, and his directing debut, explores the American actor's paradoxical obsessions with Shakespeare, debunking some of the…
- DVD
$20 $15
When We Were Kings (1996)
- Dateline: Zaire, 1974, the 'Rumble in the Jungle'. The hype and drama of the Muhammad Ali/George Foreman boxing match is brilliantly caught in this…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95, $19.95
War Stories (War Stories our Mothers never told us) (1995)
- Remarkable documentary manages to compel almost exclusively via the spoken word as seven elderly women offer candid yet articulate and boldy frank…
- DVD
$20 $15