Documentaries
Documentary Films, strictly speaking, are non-fictional, "slice of life" factual works of art, sometimes known as cinema verite. As films became more narrative-based, documentaries branched out and took many forms, some of which have been termed propagandistic or non-objective.
One of Alice's favourite sections, and due to the sheer size of this collection, we have split ioto a number of sub-sections. See side bars on left for more options. By scrolling below are you will be exposed to whole darn caboodle - all of Alice's documentaries.
Right: Werner Herzog directs "Burden of Dreams"
The Second World War in Colour (1999)
8.2/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Narrated by, John Thaw
Dramatic colour footage from as early as 1933 shows home movies of Adolf Hitler and his cohorts, the devastation wrought by the Blitz, life on the hom... Read more
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000)
6.8/10
Director: David Shapiro
Starring: Tobias Schneebaum
In 1955, gay anthropologist/artist Tobias Schneebaum travelled to the Peruvian jungle, where he joined a local tribe and participated in cannibalism.... Read more
Shoah - 1st Era, Part Two (1985)
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Part Two of the First Era of Claude Lanzmann's landmark, monumental epic of the Holocaust. With an assemblage of witnesses, death camp survivors and N... Read more
Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City (2012)
7.5/10
Starring: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Historian and author, Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a fascinating series on Jerusalem: the place where God meets man, the shrine of three faiths - J... Read more
The Map Makers (2004)
Director: Ali McGrath, Stuart Clarke
A map is more than a geographical representation of a land. It is an image which mirrors a society's political, religious and cultural vision of itsel... Read more
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1995)
7.5/10
Director: T F Mou
Portrays the ordeals of the members of a poor Chinese family as they try to survive the Japanese occupation of their city. This is an uncompromising p... Read more
General Patton: A Genius for War (1995)
General George S. Patton was a walking, talking, fighting machine whose personality was bigger and noisier than one of his Sherman tanks. He was tough... Read more
The Showmen: Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill (1996)
The true story behind the fastest guns in the west! Crime wasn't the only way to turn profit from gunplay in the Old West, Buffalo Bill Cody and "Wild... Read more
Thomas Edison: Father of Invention (1995)
Life in the modern world would be unthinkable without his inventions. More than any other individual, he paved the way for the future. Thomas Alva Edi... Read more
Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
8/10
Director: Jean Xavier de Lestrade
This intense and exciting Oscar-winning documentary focuses on the wrongful arrest of 15-year-old African-American, Brenton Butler, for the murder of... Read more