Subgenre Sampler
Sociology: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp…
- Brilliantly observed social satire that has well stood the test of time, about a liberal couple who try to open the minds of their conservative…
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…
Phantom India (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle
- Captured on film, Louis Malle’s pilgrimage to India is relayed with remarkable and imposing gravitas as the director discovers the country, warts…
Salesman (1968)
- Dir. David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
- Devastating look at the borderline existence of four door–to–door bible salesman, as they go their round from coffee–shop,…