Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (2003)
- Dir. Will Pascoe
Feat. Noam Chomsky
- A modest, though vitalising portrait of intellectual activist Noam Chomsky made following 9/11, but before the US invasion of Iraq.
Captures…
Orwell Rolls in his Grave (2003)
- Dir. Robert Kane Pappas
- Although made on a shoestring, this documentary about the state of Western media holds its own with FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and OUTFOXED in terms of bleak…
Osama (2003)
- Dir. Siddiq Barmak
Feat. Marina Golbahari
- Though nothing to do with a certain infamous terrorist, this first Afghani film made since the rise and fall of the Taliban also happens to be a…
Power Trip (2003)
- Dir. Paul Devlin
- This edge–of–your–seat documentary tells the real–life story of the devastating impact a huge American power company has had…
Reagans, The (TV Mini-series) (2003)
- Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman
Feat. James Brolin, Judy Davis, Zeljko Ivanek
- Biographical drama about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family, spanning the time period 1949–1989, with James Brolin as Ronald Reagan…
Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe (2003)
- Dir. Michael Raeburn
- A cogent reference point on the plight of Zimbabwe, dir. Raeburn documents his personal experiences as a former Rhodesia once in support of Robert…
Yes Men, The (2003)
- Dir. Chris Smith, Sarah Price, Dan Ollman
- Riding a wave of highly successful feature docos from the political left, this one has the honour of being the funniest and perhaps most…
Ali G In Da House (2002)
- Dir. Mark Mylod
Feat. Sacha Baron Cohen
- Sacha Baron Cohen and his wildly successfully small–screen alter–ego take to the feature film narrative like a duck to water in this…
Amandla! (A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony) (2002)
- Dir. Lee Hirsch
- A moving tribute to the role of protest music in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa from 1948 to 1994 – slowly put together by dir.…
Berlusconi's Mousetrap (2002)
- Dir. Aaron Rip
- Eye–witness, partisan account of the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, which led to serious clashes between police and protesters (leaving one dead…