Subgenre Sampler
Politics & Documentary: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Inside Burma - Land of Fear (1996)
- Dir. John Pilger
- Ever–pertinent John Pilger expose of Burmese plight and terror, revealing corporations, foreign investors and tourists as complicit in…
- Rats in the Ranks (1996)
- Dir. Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
- Bruising political doco follows the squabbles in a Sydney suburb between mayor and city councillors. The filmmakers gained an extraordinary degree of…
- Someone Else's Country (1996)
- Dir. Alister Barry
- Controversial account of the 'rise of the New Right revolution in New Zealand' was refused television broadcast on account of its 'left wing bias'.…
- Trilogy of Films by Alister Barry, A (Someone Else's Country, In a Land of Plenty, A Civilised Society) (1996-2007)
- Dir. Alister Barry
- Alister Barry's trilogy of 'New Right' economic policy documentaries, available together in one set.
- Churchills, The (1995)
- Dir. Greg Lanning
- Composed primarily of archival footage, this profiles Winston Churchill and the role his family played during his time as the nation's leader.…
- Moruroa - The Big Secret (1995)
- Dir. Michel Daeron
- A damning indictment of French nuclear testing program in the South Pacific. A French team investigate the impact of the tests on the neighbouring…
- Tracking Down Maggie (1994)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
- Classic Broomfield, in which the persistent Brit spends the entire film trying to secure an interview with former PM Margaret Thatcher, who at the…
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
- Dir. John Akomfrah
- A tribute to the revolutionary activist compiles interviews with people that knew him and those that know much about him as well as authentic footage…
- War Room, The (1993)
- Dir. Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
- Going behind the scenes with the men behind Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign reveals there to be an exact science beneath the media…
- Incident at Oglala (1992)
- Dir. Michael Apted
- A compelling case is made for the innocence of a native American accused of murdering two FBI agents in 1976, though it's sense of social injustice…