49 Up
(2005) [M]

In 1964, to explore the adage "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man," World in Action filmed seven-year-olds. Every seven years, Michael Apted visits them.

At 49, 12 agree to talk about family, work, their hopes, and the series. We also see footage from...  More

The Work of Director - Spike Jonze
(2004) [M]

Spike Jonze is most widely known as the director of Being John Malkovich (which garnered three Academy Award nominations) and Adaptation. A pioneer in the world of music videos, he was for many years better known as an award-winning music video, short film and commercial director. He began as a...  More

The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]

Chris Cunningham's career as a music video director began in 1995 when, aged 25 and passionate about music, Chris persuaded Autechre to let him direct a promo for a track entitled Second Bad Vilbel. Following on from this video, Chris was soon working with a range of artists during the early days...  More

The Work of Director - Michel Gondry
(2004) [M]

Michel Gondry is one of the most acclaimed and respected video directors in the industry. While studying at a French art school when he began directing videos for the band Oui Oui (in which he drummed). The clip's success attracted other bands, and it wasn't long before he was working...  More

The Work of Director - Jonathan Glazer
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Mark Romanek
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Anton Corbijn
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

The Work of Director - Stephane Sednaoui
(2004) [M]

The Directors Label Series highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to redefine music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. Each volume in the Directors Label compiles music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, as well as a variety of exclusive features,...  More

Italian Film Festival 2004: Disc 5 (The Cruellest Day / The Spectator)
(2004) [R]

The Cruellest Day: On March 20 1994, RAI TV news reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin were killed in ambush in Mogadishu, Somalia. Their investigative reporting had brought them too close to a truth they were not supposed to uncover. The Cruellest Day is a powerful drama which...  More

Sicko
(2007) [PG]

A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories. Following on the heels of his Palme d’Or-winning Fahrenheit 9/11 and his Oscar-winning film, Bowling For Columbine, acclaimed filmmaker, Michael Moore’s new documentary sets...  More

Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX)
(2006) [R]

A remix of images and sounds, using a films original material and mixing it with new imagery. Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacities (1997), which was made by leading Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger....  More

To Die For
(1995) [MA]

Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is a small town girl with a dream of becoming a famous TV personality, a dream that becomes an nightmare when ambition turns into obsession. Disillusioned with her marriage to Larry (Matt Dillon), she immerses herself in the pursuit of her career and manages to talk...  More

Frontline : Series 2
(1995) [PG]

Based at an (unspecified) commercial network, Frontline goes behind the scenes of the ratings-obsessed world of commercial current affairs.

Covering everything from the use of hidden cameras, foot-in-the-door bullying interview techniques and cheque-book journalism, take a satirical...  More

Frontline : Series 3
(1995) [PG]

Based at an (unspecified) commercial network, Frontline goes behind the scenes of the ratings-obsessed world of commercial current affairs.

Covering everything from the use of hidden cameras, foot-in-the-door bullying interview techniques and cheque-book journalism, take a satirical...  More

The Awful Truth - The Complete First Season (2 disc set)
(1999) [M]

From the guerilla filmmaker who brought you Roger and Me comes the most daring documentary show to hit the American Public since Moore's TV Nation: THE AWFUL TRUTH * Episode 1: A Cheaper Way to Conduct a Witch Hunt Funeral at an HMO * Episode 2: Beat the Rich...  More

The Awful Truth: The Complete Second Season (2 Disc Set)
(1999) [M]

From the guerilla filmmaker who brought you Roger and Me comes the most daring documentary show to hit the American Public since Moore's TV Nation: THE AWFUL TRUTH * Episode 1: Avertiser Appreciation Night * Episode 2: Compassionate Conservative Night * Episode 3:...  More

The Best of Everything
(1959) [PG]

Amanda Farrow is a waspish, hard edged editor in a paperback publishing house. Jaded and embittered, she is involved in a disappointing affair with a married man and tends to take out her frustrations on the girls under her charge, including Gregg Adams, an aspiring actress who is involved with a...  More

7 Up & 14 Up (aka Seven Up! & Seven Plus Seven ): (2 disc set)
(1970) [G]

Originally shown as part of the World In Action television series, 7 Up broke new ground in British documentary filmmaking when it aired in 1964. Seen as a snapshot of the nation's future, a group of 7-year-old children, all from different walk of life, were asked about their attitudes towards...  More

Yes Minister - Series 2
(1980) [G]

The corridors of power are awash with corruption, back-stabbing and uncivil servants as James Hacker, opportunistic Minister of the Department of Administrative Affairs, and his scheming Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, fight for control of the ministry. It's the hilarious award-winning...  More

Yes, Prime Minister - Series 1
(1986) [G]

Vision, integrity and a ruthless streak are the weapons of political power. Unfortunately new Prime Minister Jim Hacker has none of these, but he does have cowardice, desperation and a scheming, pragmatic Cabinet Secretary in Sir Humphrey...

Season 1 Season 1, Episode 1: The Grand...  More

Yes, Prime Minister - Series 2 (Disc 1 of 2)
(1986) [G]

Prime Minister Jim Hacker is still guided by his Machiavellian mentor, Sir Humphrey Appleby, in Series Two of this award-winning comedy. When Jim decides to implement a new plan to reduce unemployment in the North, Sir Humphrey decides that desperate cases call for desperate measures....  More

Masterclass - An Audience With Filmmakers: Vol. 1 - Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(2006) [M]

Featuring the career stories of 4 prominent Australian screen actors Eric Bana, Claudia Karvan, Jack Thompson and Bud Tingwell. In this up close and personal series host Peter Thompson [one of Australia’s greatest authorities on cinema] draws compelling and unexpected stories from these...  More

Mclibel - Two Worlds Collide (2 disc set)
(1998) [PG]

McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald’s on the biggest corporate PR disaster in history. McDonald’s loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organizations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologized. Then they sued gardener...  More

A Face in the Crowd
(1957) [M]

Elia Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Patricia Neal plays Marcia Jeffries, the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who...  More

Forbidden Lies
(2007) [M]

Weaving murder, deceit, politics, greed and an international literary scandal into an engrossing labyrinth, Forbidden Lie$ is a real life thriller for our time. Did author Norma Khouri con more than half a million readers, publishers and journalists across fifteen countries or is she a truly...  More

Strange Culture
(2007)

The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtz's 911 call deemed Kurtz's art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected...  More

Blair
(2008) [PG]

Tony Blair, Britain's former Prime Minister, tells the story of his ten years in power (1997 2007) and the major events which marked his premiership. Concentrating on the world crises and conflicts during this period and built around in-depth interviews with Mr Blair in which he talks candidly...  More

The Bold, The Brave, The Best Of Australian Animated Shorts (2 disc set)
(2008) [M]

See the Best in Aussie Animation!

Leisure:
A fast-paced, humorous and thought-provoking film using animation by Australian newspaper cartoonist Bruce Petty. The film emphasizes the use of leisure time as an important aspect of life in our society today. Planning for recreation and...  More

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
(2007) [M]

Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory is director Esther Robinson's personal inquiry into the truth behind her Uncle Danny Williams' mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually unknown today, Danny was Andy Warhol's lover, and a promising young filmmaker.

In 1965, Danny Williams was...  More

Standard Operating Procedure
(2008) [MA]

Witness one of the worst debacles in American military history. Enter Abu Ghraib. You've seen the photographs on the nightly news: the naked prisoners, the pyramid of degraded captives and the infamous thumbs-up grin of the young female corporal standing guard over them all. Now, come inside and...  More