Subgenre Sampler
Politics & Documentary: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2001)
- Dir. Othmar Schmiderer, Andre Heller
- 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…
- Culturejam: Hijacking Commercial Culture (2001)
- Dir. Jill Thorpe
- Fun but ultimately serious expose of various pranksters who subvert the advertising and retail industries of the US.
Featuring conversations with…
- Facing the Music (2001)
- Dir. Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
- Art and commerce clash in corridors of academia at Sydney University, as budget cuts compromise the integrity and possible viability of the music…
- In Shifting Sands (2001)
- Dir. Scott Ritter
Feat. Scott Ritter
- A pertinent, compelling though rather schizophrenic film–diary directed by the former Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq.
Exploring the…
- Life and Debt (2001)
- Dir. Stephanie Black
- A scathingly political look at the "new world order" from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy…
- Party's Over, The (Last Party 2000) (2001)
- Dir. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore
- A pre–9/11 political doco that still resonates loudly in the George W. Bush era, actor and “concerned citizen” Phillip Seymour Hoffman…
- Diplomat, The (2000)
- Dir. Tom Zubrycki
- Panorama of East Timor’s struggle to regain independence from Indonesia following the 1975 invasion, expressed through the 24 year exile of former…
- JFK's Women (2000)
- Revealing, if tabloid–esque expose of philandering in the White House: not Bill Clinton, but John F. Kennedy, whose affairs with four women may…
- John Pilger's No Middle Ground in the Middle East (Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq; Palenstine is Still the Issue; Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror) (2000-2003)
- Dir. John Pilger, Alan Lowery
Feat. John Pilger
- Three of journalist John Pilger’s most recent and cogent illustrations of the plight of the Middle East, with Iraq, foreign policy, Israel and…
- North Korea (Three Documentaries on the Despotic Regime of Kim Jong-Il) (2000-2003)
- Topical and timely companion of three documentaries on the ostracised state of North Korea:
‘Nuclear Nightmare: Understanding North…