Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3044 Films to Buy & Rent
My Date with Drew (2003)
- Dir. Brian Herzlinger, Jon Gunn, Brett Winn
Feat. Brian Herzlinger
- Taking the showbiz reality genre to its logical nadir, 'regular Joe' and amateur film–maker Brian Herzlinger documents his quest to, er, get a…
My Flesh and Blood (2003)
- Dir. Jonathan Karsh
- A raw and perceptive documentary set around 53–year old Californian woman Susan Tom and her life caring for eleven adopted children – all…
Mythbusters (TV Series) (2003)
- A series which attempts to test and debunk various 'urban myths', by having two special f/x experts devise (often highly destructive) experiments to…
Ngatahi - Know the Links (2003)
- Dir. Dean Hapeta
Feat. Dean Hapeta
- An extended voyage by Upper Hutt Posse–founder Dean Hapeta through the self–determining cultures of many of the world’s indigenous…
Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (2003)
- Dir. Will Pascoe
Feat. Noam Chomsky
- A modest, though vitalising portrait of intellectual activist Noam Chomsky made following 9/11, but before the US invasion of Iraq.
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Nomi Song, The (2003)
- Dir. Andrew Horn
Feat. Klaus Nomi
- Satisfying exploration of the life, music and 'alternate reality' of Klaus Nomi, a late–1970s underground music legend who combined opera…
Off The Charts - The Song-Poem Story (2003)
- Dir. Jamie Meltzer
- A gem of a music doco from off the beaten track, this charts the arcane history of the "song poem", a genre of music where members of the public have…
Orwell Rolls in his Grave (2003)
- Dir. Robert Kane Pappas
- Although made on a shoestring, this documentary about the state of Western media holds its own with FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and OUTFOXED in terms of bleak…
Overnight (2003)
- Dir. Mark Brian Smith, Tony Montana
- One–time screenwriter Troy Duffy's Hollywood career trainwreck is excruciatingly detailed in this documentary that lays bare how the scribe of…
Peter Blake - Death on the Amazon (2003)
- Investigative documentary about the death of famed New Zealand yachtsman Sir Peter Blake, who was sailing up the Amazon River in 2001 before being…