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.
All The President's Men Revisited (2013)
7.7/10
Director: Peter Schnall
Starring: Robert Redford
Discovery Channel and award-winning actor / director Robert Redford present a landmark television event looking back at Watergate - the original game... Read more
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)
7.8/10
Director: Nicholas D Wrathall
Starring: Gore Vidal
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than G... Read more
Aim High in Creation! (2013)
7/10
Director: Anna Broinowski
A revolutionary documentary comedy about the cinematic genius of North Korea's late Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il, with a groundbreaking experiment at its h... Read more
JFK: A Fresh Perspective (2013)
8/10
Director: Susan Bellows
Starring: Narrated by, Oliver Platt
A probing and definitive biography, the series "JFK" provides a fresh look at the enigmatic man who is one of the American nation's most beloved and m... Read more
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)
7/10
Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Starring: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alyokhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich
Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that ha... Read more
The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents (2013)
7.9/10
Few people may be aware that the office of the President of the United States was originally conceived by America's Founding Fathers as a mere adminis... Read more
Pandora's Promise (2013)
7.4/10
Director: Robert Stone
Pandora's Promise asks whether the one technology we fear most could save our planet from a climate catastrophe, while providing the energy needed to... Read more
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013)
6.9/10
Director: Alex Gibney
Starring: Julian Assange
Filmed with the startling immediacy of unfolding history, award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's documentary details the creation of Julian Assange's c... Read more
The Act of Killing (2012)
8.2/10
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
This chilling and inventive documentary tells the stories of members of the Indonesian death squads who tortured and killed over 500,000 people throug... Read more
The Gatekeepers (2012)
7.6/10
Director: Dror Moreh
Charged with overseeing Israel's war on terror - both Palestinian and Jewish - the head of the Shin Bet, Israel's Secret Service, is present at the cr... Read more