Subgenre Sampler
Politics & Documentary: 242 Films to Buy & Rent
Black Panthers, The: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
- Dir. Stanley Nelson Jr
- Well–crafted doco that examines the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial…
Death in Leon (TV Mini-series) (Muerte en Leon) (2015)
- Dir. Justin Webster
- A non–fiction series about the murder of Isabel Carrasco, a controversial politician and president of the Provincial Council of Leon, Spain.…
Emperor's New Clothes, The (2015)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Russell Brand
- Russell Brand and Michael Winterbottom team up to present this angry, but also blackly funny, examination of the growing disparity between different…
Look of Silence, The (2015)
- Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
- Devastating sequel to the acclaimed THE ACT OF KILLING examines the genocide from the victim's perspective, following a family of survivors as they…
Requiem for the American Dream (2015)
- Dir. Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks
- A bracing encapsulation of Professor Noam Chomsky's political and philosophical views, focusing particularly on the damaging effects of inequality in…
Welcome to Leith (2015)
- Dir. Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker
- A living nightmare unfolds for the townsfolk of the North Dakota town of Leith (pop. 24) when a notorious white supremacist moves in with a nefarious…
Where to Invade Next (2015)
- Dir. Michael Moore
- A good–natured comic polemic from film–maker Michael Moore, who this time "invades" a host of European nations in pursuit of progressive,…
Green Prince, The (2014)
- Dir. Nadav Schirman
- Absorbing account of how a son of a founding leader in the Palestinian organization, Hamas, became a spy for the Israelis.
Merchants of Doubt, The (2014)
- Dir. Robert Kenner
- The director of FOOD INC. takes on corporate titans once again, here exposing their duplicitous agenda to mislead consumers on climate change using…
Aim High in Creation (2013)
- Dir. Anna Broinowski
- With ambitions to stop a new gas mine from being established near her Sydney home, director Anna Broinowski (FORBIDDEN LIES) goes to North Korea to…