Subgenre Sampler
History: 397 Films to Buy & Rent
- Hitler - The Rise of Evil (2003)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Peter O'Toole…
- Somewhat controversial account of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, attempting to fathom his potential for evil–doing.
An only…
- Killing Hitler (TV Mini-series) (2003)
- Dir. Jeremy Lovering
Feat. Peter McDonald, Kate Ashfield, Kenneth Cranham…
- Accurate docu–drama merging archival footage with recreations and educated interview to portray and dissect 'Operation Foxley' – a secret…
- Lost Prince, The (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Gina McKee, Miranda Richardson, Bibi Andersson…
- A sumptuous BBC production concerning Prince John, the youngest son of King George V of England, whose autism and mild epilepsy embarrassed the…
- Mandela - The Living Legend (2003)
- Feat. Nelson Mandela
- Notable BBC documentary on the former South African President who was imprisoned in the 1960s under the Apartheid regime and survived decades behind…
- Ned Kelly (2003)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush…
- Australia's most famous bushranger is portrayed with outright sympathy and a large measure of romantic invention in this messy, but not entirely…
- Private Life of a Masterpiece, The (TV Series) (2003)
- Expansive, all–encompassing art history as tackled by the BBC, canvassing masterpieces from the Renaissance era through to 20th Century works…
- Reckoning, The (2003)
- Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Vincent Cassel…
- A sober minded recreation of plague–blasted England of the Middle Ages, with Bettany cowling–up as a monk on the run who falls in with a…
- Test, The (2003)
- Television documentary celebrating 100 years of rugby with New Zealand's All Blacks.
Includes interviews with various legends of the game –…
- 11'09'01 (September 11) (2002)
- Dir. Ken Loach, Claude Lelouch, Sean Penn
Feat. Ernest Borgnine
- A consistently intriguing omnibus of 11 short films made by various top directors about the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 in New York –…
- 9/11 (2002)
- Dir. Jules Naudet, Gedeon Naudet, James Hanlon
- What started out as an amateur documentary by two French brothers about the New York Fire Department turns into a vital, ground’s–eye view of…