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 History of the Devil (2007)
7.1/10
Diabolus, Beelzebub, Satan, Lucifer, the Dark One, the Prince of Darkness... The Devil has had many names and forms over the centuries and has been bl... Read more
The Hitler Youth (1999)
7.2/10
"I want young people to grow up so that they will frighten the world; a violent, dominant, cruel youth...I do not want intellectual education. Young p... Read more
The Hollow Men (2008)
7.4/10
Director: Alister Barry
The most explosive book in New Zealand political history is now a film. Don Brash stepped down as leader of the National Party in November 2006, the d... Read more
The Holocaust: Dachau & Sachsenhausen (2006)
7.5/10
Whilst Hitler sought the answers to his "Jewish problem", more and more centres of containment sprung up throughout Nazi occupied Europe. Two such cam... Read more
The Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz (2004)
7.5/10
Recorded from January - February 1945 by a Soviet film crew attached to the 1st Ukrainian Front, the programme tells the story of the liberation of th... Read more
The Holocaust: The Yellow Star (2006)
7.5/10
"One hundred dead are a catastrophe; millions of dead are a statistic." The horrendous observations of Adolf Eichmann. This Oscar nominated documentar... Read more
The Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright (1996)
Starring: Frank Lloyd Wright
From Fallingwater to the Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright created some of the most celebrated designs in history. But his development as an archi... Read more
The Horse Boy (2009)
7.4/10
Director: Michel Orion Scott
Aka "Over the Hills and Far Away". Based on the best-selling book of the same name, "The Horse Boy" is part travel adventure, part insight into shaman... Read more
The House I Live In (2012)
7.9/10
Director: Eugene Jarecki
As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and infli... Read more
The Human Body (1998)
8.6/10
Director: Emma De'ath, Liesel Evans, Richard Dale
Starring: Robert Winston
Life inside the most complex mechanism on earth - our bodies - is explored and explained in this ground-breaking series. The latest imaging techniques... Read more