Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > Sociology: 230 Films to Buy & Rent
Soldier Girls (1980)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
- Early Nick Broomfield entry surveys the US Army's training regime for female recruits. Though less obtrusive than in later incarnations, Broomfield…
Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin (Poto and Cabengo, Routine Pleasures, My Crasy Life) (1980-1992)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin
- Three delightfully absorbing observational documentaries from director Jean–Pierre Gorin, well know for his collaborations with Jean–Luc…
Best Boy (1979)
- Dir. Ira Wohl
- Academy–award winning doco follows three years in the life of the film–maker's cousin Philly, a 52–year–old with the…
Tattooed Tears (1978)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
- Early Nick Broomfield doco eschews his later interactive style for an unrelenting examination of the life of four youths in a prison for young…
21 Up (1977)
- Dir. Michael Apted
- The third part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of different…
Grey Gardens (1976)
- Dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde
- An intimate portrait of acute eccentricity, this offers a ‘home movie’–style insight into the lives of colourful high–society…
Harlan County USA (1976)
- Dir. Barbara Kopple
- A vivid, enlightening documentary about a violent labour dispute on the East Kentucky coalfields, prompted by decades of poor conditions in the…
Smokes and Lollies / Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better (1975-1980)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
- The first of five documentaries Gillian Armstrong directed on Adelaide women Kerry, Josie and Diana, this introduces the fresh–faced trio as…
Story of Kerry, Josie and Diana 14-47, The (Smokes and Lollies; Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better; Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces; Not Fourteen Again; Love, Lust & Lies) (1975-2009)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
- The complete documentaries of Gillian Armstrong's series on the lives of three working class Adelaide women, introduced as 14–year–olds…
Calcutta (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- Louis Malle’s companion piece to PHANTOM INDIA isolates some extraordinary footage of Calcutta, presenting a fiery and tempestuous image of a city…