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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....

Touching the Void (2003)

8/10
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates

The remarkable true story of mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates is the focus of this harrowing docudrama. In 1985, the fearless pair sets o... Read more

Jazz (2000)

6.4/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Bil...

Inspired by blues and ragtime, it made its way up the Mississippi and spread across America, evolving along the way into a variety of forms. Filmmaker... Read more

The Imposter (2012)

7.5/10
Director: Bart Layton

A documentary that uses interviews and dramatised recreations to piece together the bizarre story of a missing boy and the young man who impersonated... Read more

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

8.2/10
Director: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Starring: Noam Chomsky

Funny, provocative and suprisingly accessible, 'Manufacturing Consent' explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, the world renowned lingu... Read more

Timothy Leary's Last Trip (1996)

6.5/10
Director: A J Catoline, O B Babbs
Starring: Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, The Merry Pranksters

This behind-the-scenes look at Dr. Timothy Leary, pioneer in psychology and consciousness raising of the 60's, documents the life of the man who led a... Read more

Bowling For Columbine (2002)

8/10
Director: Michael Moore

The Uncle Sam's America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist film... Read more

The Gospel According to Philip K Dick (2000)

4.5/10
Director: Mark Steensland

Philip K. Dick may be science fiction's greatest writer ever. His novels and stories continue to inspire and influence a generation of filmmakers, wri... Read more

Derrida (2002)

6.5/10
Director: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Kofman
Starring: Jacques Derrida

One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of "deconstruction" Jacques Derrida has single... Read more

In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Jessica Yu
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Larry Pine

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu this innovative documentary explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darg... Read more

Man With A Movie Camera (1929)

8.4/10
Director: Dziga Vertov

One of the most extraodinary films in the history of cinema. An exhilarating and often hilarious montage showing Moscow people at work and play and th... Read more