Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Documentary: 2941 Films to Rent
- Ken Burns' Country Music (2020)
- Dir. Ken Burns
- Formidable 8–part, 16 hour PBS series by the legendary documentarian Ken Burns, exploring the history of country music and it's cultural impact…
- Laurel Canyon (2020)
- Two part documentary series exploring the music and culture of Laurel Canyon and the wider LA rock scene of the 60's and 70's. Features incredible…
- Love it Was Not (2020)
- Dir. Maya Sarfaty
- Superb documentary about the incredible story of an SS officer and a Jewish prisoner who fall in love and have an affair at Auschwitz.
A talented…
- Mole Agent, The (2020)
- Dir. Maite Alberdi
- An Academy Award–nominated documentary set in a nursing home in Chile, where a private investigator has hired a charismatic…
- Painter and the Thief, The (2020)
- Dir. Benjamin Ree
- A astonishing art documentary about the Czech painter Barbora Kysilkova, who tracked down and met the criminal who stole her paintings.
What…
- Pompeii: Sin City (2020)
- A documentary exploring the city of Pompeii and its profound influence on culture and art over the course of human history.
Provides an evocative…
- Six60: Till The Lights Go Out (2020)
- Dir. Julia Parnell
- Documentary tracking the extraordinary local success of Kiwi band Six60, who started off as students living in 660 Castle Street in Dunedin, and went…
- Stray (2020)
- Dir. Elizabeth Lo
- A companion piece of sorts to KEDI (2016), the popular film about the stray cats of Istanbul, that this time presents the dog’s eye–view of…
- White Riot (2020)
- Dir. Rubika Shah
- A frighteningly still–relevant documentary about "Rock Against Racism", a movement that was formed in 1976, as a result of a far–right…
- Zappa (2020)
- Dir. Alex Winter
Feat. Frank Zappa
- An intimate portrait of Frank Zappa, one of modern music’s most important and iconoclastic figures. The film explores his far–reaching and…