Subgenre Sampler
Sociology: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
Actuality Dramas of Allan King, The (Warrendale; A Married Couple; Come on Children; Dying at Grace; Memory For Max, Claire, Ida and Company) (1967-2005)
- Dir. Allan King
- A collection of five cinema–verité style documentaries from the extraordinary Canadian auteur Allan King, all of which are emotionally…
Cathy Come Home (1966)
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White
- Dramatic critique of Britain's housing problems follows the progress of a young couple in London as they slip down the social and class ladder into…
Country Calendar (TV Series) (1966-2015)
- The iconic New Zealand series that unveils the doings of our rural populace – their innovations, traditions and eccentricities.
'Very Best…
7 Up / 14 Up (Seven Plus Seven) (1964-1970)
- Dir. Paul Almond, Michael Apted
- The first two parts of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of…
I am Cuba (1964)
- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
- One of the most renowned documentaries of the 1960s, this poetic evocation of Cuba under Batista is today notable for both its quaint politics and…
Up Series Boxset (7-49UP) (1964-2005)
- Dir. Michael Apted
- All 49 years of Michael Apted's extraordinary documentary series chronicling the evolving lives of ordinary Brits.
Whicker's World (TV Series) (1958-1994)
- Feat. Alan Whicker
- Fronted by one of the most celebrated social commentators and journalists of the 20th century, Alan Whicker's television masterpieces saw the polite…
Nuit et Broulliard (Night and Fog) (1955)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
- Haunting, influential doco on the Nazi concentration camps investigates the ways in which images of past events cause guilt for those in the present,…
Stars Look Down, The (1939)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams
- Gritty account of life in a Northumberland coal mining village was dir. Reed's first notable film and still one of his most successful.
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Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- Dir. Dziga Vertov
- Breath–taking moving snapshot of life in Leninist Moscow uses dissolves, split screen, slo–mo, and freeze frames to dazzlingly illustrate…