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Rental > Documentary: 2954 Films to Rent
Youssou N’Dour - I Bring What I Love (2008)
- Dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
- Gifted Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour performs a series of concerts in this excellent documentary, which also gets to heart of the musician’s…
11th Hour, The (The Eleventh Hour) (2007)
- Dir. Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio
- Actor Leonardo DiCaprio fronts this environmental call to action, imploring viewers to adopt sustainable ways of living as the planet's '11th hour'…
21 Up South Africa - Mandela's Children (2007)
- Dir. Angus Gibson
- The enduring UP Series moves to South Africa, where six 21–year–olds, first filmed in 1992, reflect on their lives to date.
By…
4 (Vivaldi - The Four Seasons) (2007)
- Dir. Tim Slade
- In this remarkably unique and poetic documentary, a performance of each season of Vivaldi’s masterpiece is delegated to four prodigious violinists…
A Civilised Society (2007)
- Dir. Alister Barry
- Documentarian Alister Barry concludes his loose trilogy on New Right economic policies with this impassioned plea for the standards of public…
A Very British Gangster (2007)
- Dir. Donal MacIntyre
- Gay Manchester mob kingpin/community lynchpin Dominic Noonan is the main subject of this fly–on–the–wall look at his criminal…
Alice Neel (2007)
- Dir. Andrew Neel
- Documentary looking at the life and art of great American portrait painter Alice Neel, made by her grandson.
Accomplished examination of the great…
Amazing Journey - The Story of The Who (2007)
- Dir. Murray Lerner, Paul Crowder
- An ‘authorized and definitive’ anthology of The Who, this covers all the bases in the band’s legend–making, four–decade music…
American Hardcore (2007)
- Dir. Paul Rachman
- Rugged, warts and all restrospective of America’s British punk spinoff looks back on the warpath of bands such as Minor Threat, Black Flag and Dead…
Amy Winehouse - I Told You I Was Trouble & Live in London (2007)
- The hip swaggering rehab music rebel presents her 2007 17–song set live from 'Shepherd's Bush Empire' London town, along with a 50 minute doco…