Subgenre Sampler
History: 406 Films to Buy & Rent
Tangiwai and Wahine Disasters (1993-2002)
- Dir. David Sims, John Carlaw
- Released for the first time together on DVD, two in–depth documentaries detailing two of New Zealand's worst transport disasters of the last…
Carry On Columbus (1992)
- Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Julian Clary, Rik Mayall, Alexei Sayle
- Julian Clary, Rik Mayall and Alexei Sayle, among others, contribute double entendres aplenty to this tribute to that '60s comic institution, the…
Gully-ites, The (1992)
- Dir. John Anderson
- A slice of character–filled life filmed in our own backyard, this is a heartwarming insight into a community with a unique history, capturing…
JFK: Assassination Tapes (1992)
- Dir. John Barbour
- Largely a basis for Oliver Stone's opus, Jim Garrison himself speaks frankly about his investigation into the alleged cover–up surrounding the…
Architecture of Doom (1991)
- Dir. Peter Cohen
- Uniquely, this study of the Nazi era concentrates on the vast creations of Adolf Hitler’s Masterplan – choreographed rallies, architecture,…
Making Sense of the Sixties (1991)
- Fulsome documentary overview of the turbulent sixties, specifically in context with America, where John F. Kennedy, civil rights, the Vietnam War,…
Rebels in Retrospect (1991)
- Dir. Russell Campbell
- An inquiry into the aims, methods and achievments of the Progressive Youth Movement, Kiwi political activists in the turbulent '60s.
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
- Dir. Mark Kitchell
- A lively, dense study of 1960s counter–culture in microcosm, this chronicles the rise and fall of the student movement in a Californian campus…
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
- Dir. Kjell Grede
Feat. Stellan Skarsgard, Karoly Eperjes
- Swedish WWII film starring Stellan Skarsgard as Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman who saved over 60000 Hungarian Jews by helping them to acquire…
Civil War, The (The American Civil War) (1989)
- Dir. Ken Burns
- An extraordinary documentary series on the American Civil War, widely recognised as one of the greatest ever made.
Using archival photographs,…