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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....

The Persuaders (2004)

8.2/10
Director: Barak Goodman, Rachel Dretzin

In an increasingly high-tech and media-savvy world, how have advertising and public relations firms adapted to work their messages into the public's e... Read more

The Peter Sellers Story ...As He Filmed It (2004)

Director: Peter Lydon, Anthony Wall
Starring: Peter Sellers

Using a unique collection of his own home movies shot between 1948 and 1977 and discovered years after his death, this film presents an intriguing and... Read more

The Powder and the Glory (2007)

Director: Ann Carol Grossman, Arnie Reisman

This intriguing documentary tells the story of two successful pioneering women entrepreneurs - Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred year... Read more

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

8/10

A look at how Cuba transitioned from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one, having lost access to Soviet oil in the 1990s. This is a s... Read more

The Power of Emotion (1983)

7.2/10
Director: Alexander Kluge

Iconoclast, philosopher, aesthete: Alexander Kluge is all this and more. One of the founding fathers of the New German Cinema, Kluge made a varied and... Read more

The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004)

8.9/10
Director: Adam Curtis

Political proverb states that a population in fear is a population that is easily controlled. In this documentary exploring the climate of fear that e... Read more

The Queen of Versailles (2012)

7.1/10
Director: Lauren Greenfield

With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, this highly entertaining documentary details the lives of American timeshare billionaires David and Ja... Read more

The Question of God: Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis (2004)

8.3/10
Starring: Sigmund Freud, CS Lewis

What is happiness? How do we find meaning and purpose in our lives? How do we reconcile the conflict between love and sexuality? And how do we cope wi... Read more

The Real Da Vinci Code (2004)

6.9/10
Director: Kashaf Chaudhry
Starring: Tony Robinson

The recent phenomenal success of Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code" has brought the Holy Grail and its myriad of hunters into the spotlight. It may... Read more

The Real New Zealand (1997)

Director: Shirley Horrocks

An entertaining look at New Zealand through the eyes of international tourists who choose to move out of their comfort zones and stay in local homes r... Read more