Subgenre Sampler
Sociology: 251 Films to Buy & Rent
- Last Train Home (2009)
- Dir. Lixin Fan
- A startling and vivid humanist documentary on China's ceaseless industrial growth, centred on one couple who make the annual migration from city to…
- Louis Theroux - The Strange and the Dangerous (2009)
- More madness from Television's favourite faux–naif Louis Theroux, this time with our unfailing polite host coming face to face with some truly…
- Love At The Twilight Motel (2009)
- Dir. Alison Rose
- Curious peek behind the doors of Miami's seedy Twilight Motel, a rent–by–the–hour establishment frequented by all manner of…
- Love, Lust & Lies (2009)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
- The fifth film in the documentary series about the lives, hopes and dreams of three lively, working class Adelaide girls (now aged 47) since they…
- Mexican Border Wars (TV Series) (2009)
- National Geographic series about American customs agents, whose job it is to curb illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking for a country…
- Sisters from Siberia (2009)
- Dir. Russell Campbell
- Wellington City Councillor Stephanie Cook is the subject of this insightful documentary on her successful adoption of sisters Katya and Nadia, who…
- South (TV Series) (2009)
- Feat. Marcus Lush
- Another "love story" from intrepid broadcaster Marcus Lush, who this time explores the South Island of New Zealand, an area he fell in love with…
- This Way of Life (2009)
- Dir. Tom and Barbara Burstyn
- Evocative, moving Kiwi doco which treats the viewer to an intimate glimpse of a family who reject modernity and live wild with six kids and fifty…
- Trouble is My Business (2009)
- Dir. Juliette Veber
- Keenly observational documentary about an empathetic assistant principal (Gary Peach) who battles to keep his students in school and out of trouble…
- American Future - A History by Simon Schama (2008)
- Resonant look at the superpower filmed during the run up to the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama with popular historian Simon Schama turning his…