Subgenre Sampler
Politics & Documentary: 242 Films to Buy & Rent
Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia (2013)
- Dir. Nicolas D. Wrathall
- Stimulating portrait of the one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic commentators drawing on a wealth of archival material and candid interviews…
Hot Air (2013)
- Dir. Abi King-Jones, Alister Barry
- Is it possible for a small democratic nation to address the greatest political challenge of the age? That is the question posed by this timely…
Killing Lincoln (2013)
- Dir. Adrian Moat
Feat. Billy Campbell
- Bill O'Reilly's novel about the assassination of President Lincoln from the point of view of John Wilkes Booth is the basis for this uneven but…
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)
- Dir. Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
- A galvanizing portrait of the all–female punk rockers whose headline–grabbing music and performance art continues to bring Putin's…
Spirit of '45, The (2013)
- Dir. Ken Loach
- In this illuminating documentary, Ken Loach movingly celebrates the radical changes during postwar Britain under the new Labour government, which…
Stuart Hall Project, The (2013)
- Dir. John Akomfrah
- Personalised portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who is regarded as one of the founding figures of the New Left and a key architect of…
Trials of Muhammad Ali, The (2013)
- Dir. Bill Siegel
- Excellent, illuminating profile of Muhammad Ali's trials outside of the boxing ring, in particular his fight against being conscripted into the US…
Unknown Known, The (2013)
- Dir. Errol Morris
- Controversial former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in…
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
- Dir. Alex Gibney
- Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney rigorously investigates the creation of the controversial WikiLeaks website and its conspicuous founder, Julian…
Act of Killing, The (2012)
- Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer
- A staggering human rights documentary that elicits (and re–stages) boastful confessions of Indonesia's surviving death squad members, whose…