Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > Sociology: 230 Films to Buy & Rent
Paper Clips (2005)
- Dir. Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab
- Straightforward and rather touching documentary about a schoolroom project in the backwoods Tennessee town of Whitwell which aimed to raise awareness…
Protocols of Zion (2005)
- Dir. Marc Levin
- An alarming examination of the widespread post–9/11 rumour that Jewish workers at the World Trade Centre, New York City, were forewarned of the…
Workingman's Death (2005)
- Dir. Michael Glawogger
- Astonishing depiction of six of the most gruelling jobs known to man that soberingly conveys the extremes that certain members of the global…
Boy Who Plays On The Buddhas of Bamiyan, The (2004)
- Dir. Phil Grabsky
- A picturesque and moving documentary which follows in the footsteps of an impoverished family living in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, where a gigantic stone…
Czech Dream (Ceský sen) (2004)
- Dir. Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda
- A document of two young filmmaker's satirical stunt to promote a gigantic supermarket (hypermarket) to be supposedly constructed on the outskirts of…
Dogora (2004)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
- A filmic mediatation on Cambodia, loosely in the style of BARAKA, for which dir. Leconte travelled to the formerly wartorn country to capture the…
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army) (2004)
- Dir. Robert Stone
- An indepth examination of the Californian 'hippie–terrorists', the SLA, who rose to prominence in the 1970s attempting to change America with…
Michael Palin: Himalaya (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Roger Mills, John-Paul Davidson
Feat. Michael Palin
- Michael Palin continues his globe–trotting in this 6–part series in which he travels to the wild places of the Himalayan region. Filled…
Salvador Allende (2004)
- Dir. Patricio Guzmán
- A documentary portrait of the Marxist Chilean President who was elected by the public and brutally overthrown by Pinochet's fascist coup of September…
Scared Sacred (2004)
- Dir. Velcrow Ripper
- Visiting sites of some of the world’s most horrible stories doesn’t seem like a relaxed night’s viewing, but this doco by the interestingly…