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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blue Crush
(2003) [E]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mein Kampf
(1960)

Utilizing rare footage found in Nazi archives at the end of World War II, this documentary presents a comprehensive and disturbing look at the rise of the Nazi party. The emergence of Hitler from an impoverished crank living in a flophouse to a man backed politically by rich industrialists as...  More

The Filth And The Fury
(2000) [M]

Never mind the bollocks...here's the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols were in existence for only 26 months and recorded only one album, yet they changed the face of music forever. The Fifth and the Fury tells their story, from the litter-stacked back streets of 70's London to incredible worldwide...  More

Jazz On A Summer's Day
(1960) [G]

Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.  More

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992) [G]

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and...  More

42 Up
(1998) [PG]

In 1964, Michael Apted interviewed seven-year-old English kids: five or six from privilege, a Yorkshire farm kid, East-End girls, and boys from a children's home. Every seven years, Apted re-interviews those willing (two declined this time). At 42, careers are stuck or flourishing; marriages are...  More

Nanook Of The North
(1922) [G]

The key work in the field of documentary film, and one of the most important productions in the history of cinema, Nanook of the North was hailed as a masterpiece on its release in 1922, and became both a critical and commercial success. Nonetheless, the film has its detractors, and controversies...  More

Mclibel - Two Worlds Collide
(1998) [PG]

A documentary filmed over three years and following the lives of Helen Steel and Dave Morris, a postman and a gardener, whose trial against fast food giants McDonalds became the longest in English history. Their case develops from the basic issues of nutrition, animals, advertising and the...  More

Year Of The Horse
(1997) [M]

This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Jim Jarmusch interviews the band about their long history, and we see backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.  More