Subgenre Sampler
Politics & Documentary: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- JFK: Assassination Tapes (1992)
- Dir. John Barbour
- Largely a basis for Oliver Stone's opus, Jim Garrison himself speaks frankly about his investigation into the alleged cover–up surrounding the…
- Manufacturing Consent (1992)
- Dir. Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Feat. Noam Chomsky
- Important film presents the theories of Noam Chomsky on the media and its mainstream bias which may have a far–reaching political agenda. What…
- Panama Deception, The (1992)
- Dir. Barbara Trent
- Oscar–winning film is unabashedly activist attempt to uncover some truths about the propaganda used to sanitise the U.S. Government's invasion…
- Stepping Razor Red X (1992)
- Dir. Nicholas Campbell
- A vivid, disturbing portrait of politically–minded reggae–singer Peter Tosh, who after many turbulent years in Jamaica was killed in…
- Leader, the Driver and the Driver's Wife, The (1991)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
- Both scary and hilarious, this look at the Afrikaner Resistance Movement and its leader Eugene Terreblanche, sees Nick Broomfield honing his…
- Making Sense of the Sixties (1991)
- Fulsome documentary overview of the turbulent sixties, specifically in context with America, where John F. Kennedy, civil rights, the Vietnam War,…
- Rebels in Retrospect (1991)
- Dir. Russell Campbell
- An inquiry into the aims, methods and achievments of the Progressive Youth Movement, Kiwi political activists in the turbulent '60s.
- Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
- Dir. Mark Kitchell
- A lively, dense study of 1960s counter–culture in microcosm, this chronicles the rise and fall of the student movement in a Californian campus…
- Maria's Story (A Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador's Civil War) (1990)
- Dir. Monona Wali, Pamela Cohen
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- Roger and Me (1990)
- Dir. Michael Moore
Feat. Michael Moore
- A brilliantly irreverant personal odyssey by the film–maker who, equipped with a mic and a camera, endeavours to extract comment from General…