The Bloody Hand Of Stalin - Vol 1: Leningradskaya
(1990) [M]

Beginning in 1929, in the traditionally Cossack Country of the Kuban, the transformation from private landownership to collective farming resulted in massive deportations, brutality and, finally, starvation and cannibalism. This is the story told by the people who experienced it.  More

The War Room
(1993) [PG]

From a cold primary in New Hampshire to the victory party in in Little Rock almost ten months later The War Room takes viewers on a revealing , behind-the-scenes journey to the White House. This insightful look into one of the shrewdest, funniest, most sophisticated political machines ever takes...  More

The Silent Feminists
(1993) [E]

The title of this mid-feature documentary is deliberately double-edged. On the one hand, it describes the film's subject, female directors of the silent era, in remarkable abundance at that time - indeed, arguably the first great auteur was a woman, Alice Guy. On the other, it suggests feminists...  More

Roadkill (1989)
(1989) [MA]

This is an early film by Bruce McDonald filmed on a tiny budget over a few weeks traveling the wilds in Canada. It tells the story of Ramona, sent to recover an errant band who are in danger of missing the final date in their tour. After obtaining the job through falsely claiming to be able to...  More

Dancing In The Street: Volume 2
(1996) [M]

Dancing in the street tells the story of rock and roll: the truth behind the great songs, the myths, scandals, betrayals, accidents and talent that made it a billion dollar industry. This definitive story is told by the stars and musicians themselves and is illustrated by classic performances,...  More

Dancing In The Street: Volume 4
(1996) [M]

Dancing in the street tells the story of rock and roll: the truth behind the great songs, the myths, scandals, betrayals, accidents and talent that made it a billion dollar industry. This definitive story is told by the stars and musicians themselves and is illustrated by classic performances,...  More

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
(1999) [M]

From Errol Morris, the award-winning director of The Thin Blue Line , comes the provocative true story of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr. The son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert, Leuchter was hired by prisons across the country to make capital punishment equipment more humane. When...  More

The Right Stuff (2 disc set)
(1983) [M]

In the middle of the 20th century, America pondered its future - and looked to the skies. Based on Tom Wolfe's book, The Right Stuff is the tale of how that future began, a thrilling epic of intrepid test pilot Chuck Yeager and the seven pioneering astronauts of the Project Mercury space program....  More

Shooting the Past (2 disc set)
(1999) [M]

A three part drama written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff about the battle to save a vast photographic library. A US property developer finds the library employees still ensconced in a London building he's come to renovate. After unsuccessfully trying to sell the pictures to an advertising...  More

Into Great Silence (2 Disc Set)
(2005) [G]

The Grande Chartreuse, the Mother House of the legendary Carthusian Order of Monks, sits in solitude high in the French Alps. Into Great Silence is the first film to open the doors on life inside the Grande Chartreuse. Silence. Repetition. Rhythm Changing of time, season, and the eer-repeated...  More

Shoah (Disc 2 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  More

Shoah (Disc 3 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  More

Shoah (Disc 4 of 4)
(1985) [PG]

Claude Lanzmann spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving camp inmates, SS commandants, and eyewitnesses of the Final Solution - the Nazi's effort to systematically exterminate human beings. Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, but with extraordinary testimonies, SHOAH...  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

Life under Napoleon
(2006) [PG]

Perfume, cognac, champagne, wax figures, busts wherever we look, we find the French emperor's legacy. But we're not really conscious of just how much the many innovations that Napoleon introduced shape today's world. Laws, customs, machines, figures of speech; many have their roots in the...  More

In the Shadow of the Moon (2 disc set)
(2007) [G]

Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and very possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every...  More

The Fighting 69th
(1940) [PG]

"The Fighting 69th" is a First World War regiment of mostly New York-Irish soldiers. Amongst a cocky crew, perhaps the cockiest is Jerry Plunkett, a scrappy fellow who looks out only for himself. The officers and non-coms of the regiment do their best to instill discipline in Plunkett, and the...  More

War Dance
(2007) [PG]

War/Dance tells the story of Uganda's brutal civil war through the eyes of a group of children whose love of music brings joy, excitement and hope back into their poverty-stricken lives. Dominic, Nancy and Rose have lived in the most dangerous part of the war zone and witnessed unimaginable...  More

First Australians (2 disc set)
(2008) [PG]

First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world?s greatest empire.

Over seven documentaries,...  More

Planet B-Boy
(2007) [M]

Think breakdancing died in the eighties? Think again. PLANET B-BOY is a feature-length, theatrical documentary that re-discovers one of the most incredible dance phenomena the world has ever seen. Originally known as "B-boying", breakdancing was an urban dance form that originated from the...  More

The Times of Harvey Milk
(1984) [PG]

Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978. Milk's life leading up to his election, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco's gay community, and the city's...  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

Taxi to the Dark Side
(2007) [MA]

Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in' U.S. custody during the "war on terror". Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an innocent Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was wrongly arrested and sent to Bagram Prison. Five days after his arrest,...  More

The U.S. vs. John Lennon
(2006) [M]

Before Iraq, before the Bush Administration, before the Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteen, and Pearl Jam ... there was John Lennon, the celebrated music artist who used his fame and his fortune to protest the Vietnam War and advocate for world peace. It was a move that incensed 1 the U.S....  More

The Baader Meinhof Complex
(2008) [MA]

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book.

From the producer of Downfall comes an explosive film about one of the...  More

W.
(2008) [M]

Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial, secretive, cynical, and ruthless presidents in USA history, chronicling from 1967 to his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and oil businesses,...  More

Cadillac Records
(2008) [M]

Cadillac Records chronicles the rise of Leonard Chess' (Adrien Brody) Chess Records and its recording artists including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer) and the great Etta James (Beyonce Knowles). In this...  More

Sand and Sorrow: The tragic story of Darfur
(2007) [MA]

Offered exclusive and unparalleled access to the situation on the ground inside Darfur, Peabody award-winning filmmaker, Paul Freedman ("Rwanda - Do Scars Ever Fade?"), joins a contingent of African Union peacekeeping forces in Darfur while a tragic and disturbing chapter in human history...  More

The 10 Conditions of Love
(2009)

The 10 Conditions of Love is the story of a woman, a family, a people and a homeland. It is the story of Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled leader of the Uyghur people and her campaign for her people's human rights.

It is also the story of the "other Tibet", the country its Muslim people call...  More

Liberal Rule : The politics that changed Australia
(2009)

Liberal Rule is an inside look at the Howard Government and its impact on Australia after more than 11 years in power. This landmark three-part series gathers the stories of the key participants, from the former PM down. The nation's foremost thinkers are also tapped to add meaning to the...  More