Subgenre Sampler
History: 406 Films to Buy & Rent
Who Do You Think You Are? (TV Series) (2005)
- Celebrated BBC series which explains the 'ins and outs' of researching your own family genealogy through a featured celebrity. Each episode touches…
Why We Fight (2005)
- Dir. Eugene Jarecki
- Matching THE FOG OF WAR in terms of impact and cogency, this Sundance–winning doco investigates the long history of American involvement in…
Alexander (2004)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer…
- A valiant, though flawed attempt by dir. Oliver Stone (PLATOON) to depict the life and times of Grecian military commander Alexander the Great,…
Aryan Couple (2004)
- Dir. John Daly
Feat. Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty
- Mild World War II drama set in against the backdrop of The Euopa Plan in which in wealthy European Jews traded their riches and property in exchange…
Century of Flight, The (TV Series) (2004)
- All the accidents and achievements of man’s quest for flight are documented in this unprecedented history of taking to the skies.
26 episodes…
Europe in the Middle Ages (2004)
- Comprehensive, revisionist history documentary attempts to change perception of the Middle Ages as an era of ‘dark times’, largely through…
Great Moments of the 20th Century (2004)
- A newsreel journey through the momentous 20th century, told in three separate parts and narrated by Laura McKenzie. An essential resource for…
Gunpowder Treason and Plot (TV Mini-series) (2004)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Richard Coyle, Kevin McKidd
- A smokingly violent historical drama, penned by Jimmy McGovern, set around the infamous plot of Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Parliament and the…
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- Dir. Terry George
Feat. Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo…
- A deeply affecting expose of the Rwandan conflict of the early 1990s that matches its political conscience with vivid staging and terrific…
Jasmine Women (Mo li hua kai; Blossoming Jasmine; Jasmine Flower) (2004)
- Dir. Yong Hou
Feat. Joan Chen, Wen Jiang, Zhang Ziyi
- Intergenerational Chinese weepie about women who are unlucky in love, set during the 1920s, '50s and '80s, and based on the book by Su Tong (also the…