Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3056 Films to Buy & Rent
This Is It (Michael Jackson's This Is It) (2009)
- Dir. Kenny Ortega
Feat. Michael Jackson
- Striking rehearsal footage of Michael Jackson's highly anticipated world tour is gathered for this fitting concert film, a grand eulogy to the late,…
This is War (Severe Clear) (2009)
- Dir. Kristian Fraga
- Grungy self–portrait of life shot on mini–dv by a marine in Iraq that captures with visceral immediacy life in the front line.
This Way of Life (2009)
- Dir. Tom and Barbara Burstyn
- Evocative, moving Kiwi doco which treats the viewer to an intimate glimpse of a family who reject modernity and live wild with six kids and fifty…
Through Rainbow Coloured Glasses (2009)
- Grassroots documentary that explores how the Queer community have survived and thrived in Christchurch over the past five decades.
Part documentary,…
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2009)
- Dir. Leanne Pooley
Feat. Jools Topp, Lynda Topp
- An adorable, "Kiwi–as" portrait of NZ's beloved folk–singing comedy duo, Jools and Lynda Topp, which also resonates as a ripely…
Trouble is My Business (2009)
- Dir. Juliette Veber
- Keenly observational documentary about an empathetic assistant principal (Gary Peach) who battles to keep his students in school and out of trouble…
Turn It Loose (2009)
- Dir. Alastair Siddons
- Documentary follows sixteen of the world's premier B–boys as they battle to become world champion in a disused Soweto factory.
Two in the Wave (2009)
- Dir. Emmanuel Laurent
Feat. Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Taking us back to the inception of the French New Wave and the emergence of its two heavyweights, Jean–Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, this…
Universe, The (TV Series) (2009)
- Ambitious, beautifully presented doco series that takes us into the outer regions of space through a combination of scientific theory and computer…
Vanishing of the Bees (2009)
- Dir. George Langworthy, Maryam Henein
- Preachy but fascinating eco–documentary on the potential hazards for the earth if the world population of bees continues to mysteriously…