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General Docos

Under General Documentaries be all those diverse subjects that are not about Filmmaking, Sport, War, Natural History, Queer Doco's, New Zealand Doco's or Art on Film. This is a fascinating area to scroll....

A Brief History of Time (1992)

6.8/10
Director: Errol Morris
Starring: Stephen Hawking

An outstanding portrait of cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who's afflicted with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and communicates verbally with a voice synt... Read more

A Child's World (2001)

Director: Rupert Barrington, Mary Crisp, Tim Lambert
Starring: Bill Paterson

"A Child's World" charts the key developments and achievements that mark the way to becoming a fully-fledged independent person. It's all about how ch... Read more

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)

6.3/10
Director: Chris Waitt

Freshly dumped and deeply despondent over an endless string of disastrous relationships, lovelorn filmmaker Chris Waitt picks up his camera and attemp... Read more

A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes (2000)

7.4/10
Director: Charles Kiselyak
Starring: John Cassavetes

Charles Kiselyak's detailed journey through the career of one of film's greatest pioneers and iconoclasts. Assembled from candid interviews with Cassa... Read more

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2007)

7.8/10

An informative, inspirational documentary aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The d... Read more

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006)

7.9/10
Director: Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack

An astoundingly sobering and unashamedly apocalyptic documentary about the world's obsession with oil, when it's going to run out, and what will happe... Read more

A Decade Under the Influence (2003)

7.6/10
Director: Richard LaGravenese, Ted Demme

"The 70's Films That Changed Everything." A love letter to an amazing period in film, "A Decade Under the Influence" enlists a cast of pioneering dire... Read more

A Film About Jimi Hendrix (1973)

Director: Joe Boyd
Starring: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Little Richard, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend

The first authorized documentary to try and capture the Hendrix legacy, it has a new Dolby soundtrack, remastered by Hendrix's original engineer, Eddi... Read more

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001)

5.3/10

One of the more curious conspiracy theories: man never landed on the moon! Produced in 2001, this 47-minute documentary claims Apollo 11 went into spa... Read more

A History of Flight (2005)

Starring: Narrated by, Tom Baker

Tom Baker narrates the story of aviation from its pioneering days at the start of the 20th century through to a celebration of its achievement 100 yea... Read more