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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....

Woodstock (1970)

8.1/10
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Starring: Arlo Guthrie, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens,...

It was an event destined to become the definitive document on the freaked out craziness of the peace-and-love era. In August, 1969, half a million hip... Read more

The Beatles: Let It Be (1970)

7.8/10
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mal Evans

This limited edition released by Apple Films offers a filmed account of the Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit during the recording... Read more

Whicker's World (1969)

7.5/10
Director: David Greene, Michael Blakstad, Peter Robinson, Michael Deakin, Nigel Turner
Starring: Alan Whicker

For some forty years, British television pioneer Alan Whicker has roamed far and wide in search of the eccentric, the ludicrous and the socially-revea... Read more

Frost on Saturday (1968)

7.6/10
Starring: David Frost

One of the trio of Frost programmes that dominated ITV weekends in the late 1960s and early '70s, Frost on Saturday concentrated mainly on topical int... Read more

Salesman (1968)

6.5/10
Director: Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles
Starring: Paul Brennan

This fascinating documentary follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen on their rounds through large cities, small towns, and at a 'sales convention',... Read more

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)

8/10
Director: D A Pennebaker
Starring: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price

One of the best portraits of an artist ever put on film, 'Don't Look Back' is about Bob Dylan and the Sixties. Director Pennebaker, known for 'Montere... Read more

Civilisation (1966)

8.8/10
Director: Ann Turner, Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon
Starring: Lord Kenneth Clark

In 1966 BBC Television embarked on its most ambitious documentary series to date. The eminent art historian Lord Clark was commissioned to write and p... Read more

Ladies And Gentlemen, Mr Leonard Cohen (1965)

7.4/10
Director: Don Owen, Donald Brittain
Starring: Leonard Cohen

This jazzy black and white film portrait catches the imaginative energies, lyrical and comical, of a young Leonard Cohen, the quicksilver poet, noveli... Read more

Mondo Balordo (1964)

Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero
Starring: Narrated by, Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff narrates this superbly anachronistic addition to the Mondo movie genre. There is a midget rock and roll star, Japanese bondage, an Asian... Read more

7 Up and 7 + 7 ( 14 Up ) (1963)

8/10
Director: Michael Apted

Dubbed 'the definitive documentary' produced and directed by Michael Apted. Beginning in 1963 a camera has followed a group of children from the age o... Read more