Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3044 Films to Buy & Rent
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999)
- Feat. Michael Palin
- The fourth of Michael Palin's travel series with the BBC, this one recounts the life of author Ernest Hemingway, as Palin travels to places that…
Millennium (1999)
- Dir. Various
- Exhaustive history of the last thousand years, taken from the book by Felipe Fernandez–Armesto and presented by CNN. Refreshingly deals not…
Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr (1999)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- Another wholly idiosyncratic and remarkable work from documentarian Errol Morris, this time with the human oddity factor turned up to a…
My Best Fiend (Mein Liebster Feind) (1999)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog
- Werner Herzog’s personal portrait of his friend and famous ‘alter ego’, the late Klaus Kinski, threads together just some of the bizarre…
New York: A Documentary Film (1999-2003)
- Dir. Ric Burns
- Grand and compelling PBS portrait of New York City in the vein of Ken Burns's fulsome documentaries (incidentally, directed by younger brother Ric)…
New Zealand Wars, The (1999)
- Dir. James Belich
Feat. James Belich
- Praised, yet inevitably controversial documentary series on New Zealand's 19th century history, in particular the various land–wars between…
Original Schtick / Schtick Happens (1999-2002)
- Dir. Maciek Wszelaki
- A stranger–than–fiction documentary following American visual artist and egotistical maniac Robert (Bob) Fischer on a bizarre tour of…
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999)
- Dir. St. Clair Bourne
- Documentary exploring the life and career of Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and political activist whose distinctive bass baritone is heard on some…
Planets, The (1999)
- Suitably ambitious 8–part TV series on the planets and other aspects of our solar system, including its history, space explorations and the sun…
Pop and Me (1999)
- Dir. Chris Roe
- A 'real life' documentary with a distinctive twist – would–be film–maker Chris Roe convinces his affluent divorcee father to not…