Subgenre Sampler
Islands of the Empire (1985)
- Dir. Alister Barry, Rod Prosser, Russell Campbell
- Documentary from Wellington production company Vanguard Films (SOMEONE ELSE'S COUNTRY) offering a valuable examination of military relationships…
Our Heritage (TV Series) (1981)- A unique series of television snippets, in which seven ballads by legendary Waitakere historian Jack Diamond are recited over historical imagery and…
Frost/Nixon Watergate Interviews (1977)- Dir. Jorn Winther
Feat. David Frost, Richard Nixon - The legendary 28 hour interview between the charismatic David Frost and former President Richard Nixon is touted as the greatest political interview…
General Idi Amin Dada (A Self Portrait) (1974)- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
- General Idi Amin Dada’s narcissism is serviced willingly by an intrigued Barbet Schroeder, focusing his camera on the lunatic dictator during his…
Ascent of Man, The (TV Series) (1973)- Feat. Jacob Bronowski
- Renowned TV series from the era of epic–length documentaries, this analyses the progress of mankind through scientific and technological…
Mururoa 1973 (1973)- Dir. Alister Barry
- Documentary filmed on the protest boat "The Fri" which visited Mururoa Atoll in 1973 to protest the testing of nuclear weapons by the French…
Swastika (1973)- Dir. Lutz Becker, Phillipe Mora
- Consisting solely of startling archival footage, this documentary portrait of the era of Adolf Hitler's domination of Nazi Germany, eschews narration…
World At War, The (1973)- Epic – both in length and scope – series that comprehensively examines the second World War. Assembling a vast array of rare footage and…
Alistair Cooke's America (TV Series) (1972)- Feat. Alistair Cooke
- Considered one of the great TV documentary series, this is English broadcaster Cooke's personal view of American history and its teeming,…
Rossellini's History Films: Renaissance and Enlightenment (The Age of the Medici, Cartesius, Blaise Pascal) (1972-1974)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
- Three TV films about some of the western world's major figures and moments, from Italian master Roberto Rossellini in the final phase of his…
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