Political Docos
Due to the great influx of socio-political documentaries over the last couple of years, Alice thought it was time they had a section of their own. Included here are political bios ('Comandante', 'Mahatma Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace'); films dealing with the mechanics of politics ('Rats in the Ranks', 'The War Room'); and those dedicated to political issues as diverse as homelessness ('It Was A Wonderful Life'), the death penalty ('Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr'), corporate depletion of natural resources ('End of Suburbia'); civil rights ('4 Little Girls') and corruption ('Fahrenheit 911). Undoubtedly two stars of the genre are two very different men, extroverted funnyman, Michael Moore ('Roger and Me') and soft-spoken professor, Noam Chomsky ('Manufacturing Consent'), pictured.
Rebirth of a Nation (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Paul D (DJ Spooky) Miller
DJ Spooky's provocative 'remix' of D.W. Griffith's infamous 1915 masterpiece, "The Birth of a Nation". Originally commissioned as a live multimedia pe... Read more
Move On: Storming the Gate (2010)
5.8/10
Director: Alex Jordanov, Scott Stevenson
The inspiring and unlikely story of MoveOn.org, the biggest and most formidable progressive grass-roots movement since the 1960s. Started in 1998 by o... Read more
JFK: Bay of Pigs Declassified (2000)
8/10
The Bay of Pigs fiasco marked the first foreign policy defeat for the new Kennedy administration and the first time a CIA covert operation had been ex... Read more
Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam (2004)
7.4/10
Director: Carmine Cervi
What is evil? That highly complex question is explored in this riveting documentary through interviews with journalists, scholars and activists. Along... Read more
Suicide Killers (2006)
6.5/10
Director: Pierre Rehov
An in-depth documentary that attempts to unwind the psycho-pathology behind suicide bombers, and more specifically Palestinian suicide bombers. Filmm... Read more
Pump (2014)
7.7/10
Director: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
PUMP is an inspiring, eye-opening documentary that tells the story of America's addiction to oil, from its corporate conspiracy beginnings to its curr... Read more
Trinity and Beyond / The Atomic Filmmakers: Behind the Scenes (1995)
Director: Peter Kuran
"Trinity and Beyond" - Rarely-seen film footage from dozens of nuclear tests by the United States, Russia, England and China, much of it classified "t... Read more
The Miracle of Candeal (2004)
Director: Fernando Trueba
This music-soaked documentary is set in Candeal, a favela or shanty town in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, where Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes goes in searc... Read more
The Robert Epstein Collection: The Celluloid Closet / Common Threads / Paragraph 175 / The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
A collection of four documentaries from queer filmmaker Robert Epstein. "The Celluloid Closet" (1995) - This entertaining and often hilarious look at... Read more
Chicago 10 (2007)
7.4/10
Director: Brett Morgen
Starring: Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo, Nick Nolte, Roy Scheider, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schrei...
See contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unrave... Read more