Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > Arts & Artists: 278 Films to Buy & Rent
Salt of the Earth, The (2014)
- Dir. Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
- A visually stunning and deeply affecting portrait of SebastiĆ£o Salgado, an acclaimed humanitarian photographer, who for over forty years has…
Today's Russia: A Literary Landscape (2014)
- Feat. Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry presents this overdue reappraisal of Russian literature for a Western audience. Imbued with Fry's characteristic personal touches and…
Cutie and the Boxer (2013)
- Dir. Zachary Heinzerling
- An insightful and perceptive doco on the relationship between an elderly Japanese couple who also happen to be alternative artists: Ushio Shinohara,…
Don Driver: Magician (2013)
- Dir. Paul Judge
- Documentary about the prolific and versatile New Zealand artist Don Driver, whose output included sculptures, paintings and pop art, among other…
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
- Dir. John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
- Doing for art world what SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN did for music, this arresting documentary discovers a nanny whose previously unknown cache of…
Grayson Perry: All in the Best Possible Taste (TV Series) (2013)
- Turner–Prize winning artist and renowned transvestite Grayson Perry visits the taste tribes of Britain, dissecting the class system into three…
Inside Out: The People's Art Project (2013)
- Dir. Alastair Siddons
- Documentary portrait of French artist and TED prize–winner JR (Jean–Pierre Romel), who creates a global participatory art project that…
Lily Cole's Art Matters (2013)
- Feat. Lily Cole
- Supermodel and Cambridge Arts graduate, Lily Cole, hosts a series of intimate, observational portraits with some of today's most renowned…
Tim's Vermeer (2013)
- Dir. Teller
Feat. Penn Jillette
- Science and art coalesce in this extraordinary story of Texan tech pioneer and obsessive polymath Tim Jenison's attempt to perfectly reproduce a…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
- Dir. Alison Klayman
- As he prepares for a new series of exhibitions, China's most famous contemporary artist and dissident is profiled in this superb documentary.