Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Politics: 566 Films to Rent on DVD
- Poster Boy (2004)
- Dir. Zak Tucker
Feat. Karen Allen, Michael Lerner, Jack Noseworthy…
- A campaigning right–wing senator conscripts his closeted gay son to play happy families for the public, but the stakes are raised when the son…
- Power of Nightmares, The (2004)
- Dir. Adam Curtis
- Another provocative documentary from dir. Curtis, this time out he examines how political parties have created and used fears in order to maintain…
- President Versus David Hicks, The (2004)
- Dir. Curtis Levy
- Timely, if 'difficult' documentary which follows the efforts of the father of 'Australian Taliban' fighter David Hicks, to free his son from US…
- Red Dust (2004)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor
- A boldly straightforward courtroom drama set during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission era of post–Apartheid South Africa, where a former…
- Shake Hands With the Devil (The Journey of Roméo Dallaire) (2004)
- Dir. Peter Raymont
- Arresting account of the deplorable Rwandan genocide, told through the eyes of one of the most controversial figures surrounding the 1994 massacre,…
- Silver City (2004)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Chris Cooper, Danny Huston, Daryl Hannah…
- Oddly tangled satire of Bush–era American politics in which a George Dubya soundalike (Cooper) goes on the campaign trail in Colorado, while…
- State of Mind, A (2004)
- Dir. Daniel Gordon
- An astonishing effort from British dir. Gordon, who documents life in the closed society of North Korea from the perspective of two young girls…
- Take, The (2004)
- Dir. Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein
- A feisty documentary about the aftermath of Argentina's disastrous economic 'crash' in 2001 and how a group of unemployed workers attempt to occupy…
- Team America - World Police (2004)
- Dir. Trey Parker
Feat. Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller…
- The most fully–realized and funniest creation yet from the SOUTH PARK boys, who hit the bullseye (and a raw nerve or two) by brilliantly…
- Unconstitutional: The War on our Civil Liberties (2004)
- Dir. Nonny de la Pena, Robert Greenwald
- The third in a series of Robert Greenwald–produced 'public interest' docos – this one examines American civil liberties and what became…