Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
(1999) [R]

Canadian Gough Lewis' documentary takes an unflinching look at two years in the life of Singaporean-born porn star/artist Annabel Chong (nee Grace Quek), during which she has sex with 251 men in 10 hours for a porn shoot in order to break the record held by an Amsterdam sex worker. To offset...  More

The Diplomat (2000)
(2000) [M]

Follows East Timor's freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta in the final tumultuous year of his campaign to secure independence for his country, a former Portugese colony invaded by Indonesia in 1975.  More

Grass
(1999) [M]

This film explores the history of the American government's official policy on marijuana in the 20th century. Rising with nativist xenophobia with Mexican immigration and their taste for smoking marijuana, we see the establishment of a wrong headed federal drug policy as a crime issue as opposed...  More

Noel Coward - Private Lives & Biographical Film (2 tape set)
(1999) [PG]

- PRIVATE LIVES It is the first night of Amanda's honeymoon and everything is perfect: the view is breathtaking, cocktails are on the way and someone is singing a love song. Unfortunately, that "someone" is her ex-husband, Elyot, and he is also on honeymoon - in the neighbouring hotel room......  More

Start Up .Com
(2001) [M]

Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the...  More

Facing The Music
(2001) [PG]

This film documents the struggles of one of Australia's major music faculties as it faces increasing fund cuts. The school's head, composer Anne Boyd, guides her young talent as she confronts the administrative pressures within the university.

Facing the Music is at once highly...  More

Cunnamulla
(2000) [MA]

Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, is the end of the railway line. In the months leading up to a scorching Christmas in the bush, there's a lot more going on than the annual lizard race. Here, Aboriginal and white Australians live together but apart. Creativity struggles against...  More

Keep The River On Your Right
(2000) [MA]

The story of Tobias Schneebaum, KEEP THE RIVER covers both spiritual and geographical landscapes. A Jewish artist who also turned out to be Gay, Schneebaum was an outsider’s outsider until he journeyed into the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon in the 1950’s and became even more odd: a possible...  More

Bowling For Columbine
(2003) [M]

Michael Moore, thorn in the side of corporate America, scourge of the political hypocrisy and all-round ass-kicker of those that need a boot in the behind. With his trademark charm and biting wit, Moore's Oscar-winning documentary Bowling For Columbine sets off on a rollicking journey to the...  More

Lip Gloss
(1993) [MA]

With 30 years' experience hosting shows, Armand Monroe introduces us to the world of female impersonators in Montreal. They are performers, distinct from transvestites, hookers and Halloween revelers. Armand and others tell stories about their relationships with parents, with spouses, and with...  More

Power And Terror Noam Chomsky In Our Times
(2002) [G]

Whether Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist and political philosopher, is the most important intellectual alive, as the New York Times once famously called him, is open for debate. But without a doubt, Chomsky, now 73, is one of the most straight-talking and committed dissidents of our time. A...  More

In Shifting Sands
(2007) [PG]

Ritter does not narrate the documentary but his interview footage appears extensively. "In Shifting Sands" was made before the 2003 Iraq invasion, but it illustrates and fills in the background of how the war came about, even if this was not it's intention. Another thing highlighted is how the UN...  More

Devil's Playground
(2002) [M]

Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.

"Haunting, Provocative and Unexpected" Los Angeles Times. Winner of: Best Documentary Grand Prize, AFI DV Festival; Special Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary International...  More

Blue Crush
(2003) [E]

Surfing action with some of the world's best female surfers.  More

Punk O Rama: The Videos
(2007) [M]

Punk-O-Rama CDs is the biggest selling low-priced punk rock compilation series in the history of the planet. This amazing DVD contains 22 videos and bonus footage from some of the biggest punk bands including: OFFSPRING, RANCID, NOFX, PENNYWISE, BAD RELIGION, MILLENCOLIN, DROPKICK MURPHYS,...  More

Sir Edmund Hillary: Beyond Everest
(2003) [G]

Beyond Everest: The Ongoing Climb Sir Edmund Hillary presents a personal perspective on his life, including his relationship with old climbing partner George Lowe and their contributions to the Sherpas' lives. Beyond Everest Sir Edmund Hillary re-climbs New Zealand's Mount Olivier, journeys to...  More

Australian Geographic : A Year on Ice
(2000) [G]

Jim and Yvonne Claypole spent 12 months living in a 2.4 x 3.6 metre prefabricated hut chained to rocks on the ice edges of the Antarctic continent. The dangers they faced were extreme, both physically and psychologically. The story of their private expedition is one of inspiration and...  More

Jack Kerouac: On The Road With The King Of The Beats
(2001) [PG]

This is the award - winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On The Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change. Kerouac's life is examined...  More

Punk in London
(1978) [M]

Re-mastered from the original negative and featuring The Clash and some of punks most important bands, including The Adverts, X-Ray Spex, Subway Sect, The Boomtown Rats, The Jam, Chelsea and the outrageous Wayne County and the Electric Chairs. Directed by German Filmmaker Wolfgang B|ld this is...  More

Height Of Passion (2 disc set)
(2000) [G]

From the exotic backdrop of South America to the sophisticated pulse of Europe, HEIGHT OF PASSION explores the culture, history and rivalry of the most exciting football derbies in the world through a major four part television series. Football is the opiate of the masses and within the Latin...  More

Travelling Birds (Winged Migration)
(2001) [G]

An odyssey over three years in the making, Winged Migration certainly is an amazing experience to behold. Its most impressive and moving achievement is its ability to draw the viewer into an almost foreign world, traveling along with a myriad of bird species as they undertake their semiannual...  More

The Gleaners and I
(2000) [G]

An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd...  More

Lost in La Mancha (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [M]

In August 2000, master filmmaker Terry Gilliam finally got his oppurtunity to create his dream film he laboured for a decade, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Assembling his film crew, he prepares his production in what promises to be the biggest budgeted feature film using only European...  More

Live Forever
(2002) [M]

By the time the mid-nineties came around, British culture rocked! Music, art, fashion and film, if it was British, then it was cool. Even a bright new Labour government joined in the "cool Britannia" phenomenon. Oasis' debut album was typical of the mood. It was a classic, swaggering, epic...  More

Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
(1991) [E]

Documentary on the life and music of legendary Soul, Jazz & Blues artist Ray Charles. Contains rare musical performances of some of his biggest hits.  More

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History / Natural History of the Chicken
(1988) [PG]

'Cane Toads' is the story of how cane toads were introduced to Queensland to combat the cane grub. Instead, they promptly multiplied. To biologists, the Cane Toads are a scourge, destroying native wildlife, while alternatively to many Queenslanders, they are seen as a sort of mascot. The hilarity...  More

Amandla
(2002) [PG]

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony is a soul-stirring and inspirational film that tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanized black South Africans for...  More

My Voyage to Italy (2 disc set)
(1999) [M]

One of the most acclaimed directors of our time, Academy Award nominee Martin Scorsese directs and narrates this in-depth exploration of the careers of great Italian filmmakers and their art's profound influence on him. Scorsese highlights the classics of Italian cinema, from post-war neo-realism...  More

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi)
(2000) [M]

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody...  More

Spellbound (documentary)
(2002) [G]

Jeff Blitz’s Academy Award-Nominated Documentary is an affecting, inspiring look at eight American children as they compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Defying stereotypes, the spellers run the ethnic and socioeconomic gamut, offering equal doses of humour, heartbreak...  More