Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Politics & Documentary: 239 Films to Rent
- Risk (2016)
- Dir. Laura Poitras
- The director of CITIZENFOUR focuses on another political dissident, Julian Assange, whom she followed for six years through controversies and…
- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)
- Dir. Louise Osmond
- A revealing tribute to the life and career of one of Britain's most eminent film–makers and socially–conscious artists, whose prolific…
- Weiner (2016)
- Dir. Josh Kriegman, Elyyse Steinberg
- Shockingly funny all–access doco that exposes the machinations of a political campaign following former congressman Anthony Weiner's earnest…
- Best of Enemies (2015)
- Dir. Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
- Riveting account of the frequently explosive televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley that transfixed…
- 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…