Subgenre Sampler
Politics & Documentary: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Chasing Asylum (2016)
- Dir. Eva Orner
- A hotly topical documentary exposing the real impact of Australia's offshore detention policies and explores how 'The Lucky Country' became one where…
- Coming War on China, The (2016)
- Dir. John Pilger
- The chilling history and nature of the US military's presence in the Pacific is explored by John Pilger in a way the mainstream media won't –…
- Risk (2016)
- Dir. Laura Poitras
- The director of CITIZENFOUR focuses on another political dissident, Julian Assange, whom she followed for six years through controversies and…
- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)
- Dir. Louise Osmond
- A revealing tribute to the life and career of one of Britain's most eminent film–makers and socially–conscious artists, whose prolific…
- Weiner (2016)
- Dir. Josh Kriegman, Elyyse Steinberg
- Shockingly funny all–access doco that exposes the machinations of a political campaign following former congressman Anthony Weiner's earnest…
- Best of Enemies (2015)
- Dir. Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
- Riveting account of the frequently explosive televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley that transfixed…
- Black Panthers, The: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
- Dir. Stanley Nelson Jr
- Well–crafted doco that examines the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial…
- Death in Leon (TV Mini-series) (Muerte en Leon) (2015)
- Dir. Justin Webster
- A non–fiction series about the murder of Isabel Carrasco, a controversial politician and president of the Provincial Council of Leon, Spain.…
- Emperor's New Clothes, The (2015)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Russell Brand
- Russell Brand and Michael Winterbottom team up to present this angry, but also blackly funny, examination of the growing disparity between different…
- Look of Silence, The (2015)
- Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
- Devastating sequel to the acclaimed THE ACT OF KILLING examines the genocide from the victim's perspective, following a family of survivors as they…