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"
Frida. Viva la Vida (2019)
6.2/10
Director: Giovanni Troilo
Starring: Asia Argento
The two sides of Frida Kahlo's spirit: on one side the revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism and on the other, the human being, vi... Read more
Frodo is Great - Who Is That? (2004)
8.7/10
Director: Stan Alley
Starring: Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Bret McKenzie
This film follows Bret McKenzie's career diversion from Flight of the Concords into Middle Earth and back again. We travel with Bret, Jemiane Cleme... Read more
From Mao to Mozart (1980)
7.7/10
Director: Murray Lerner
Starring: Isaac Stern, David Golub, Tan Shuzhen
An excellent documentary covering a tour to China by violinist Isaac Stern. The scenes showing his instructing young and talented musicians are superb... Read more
Frost / Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews (1977)
7.7/10
Director: Jorn Winther
Starring: Richard Nixon, David Frost
Cut from over 28 hours of interview footage between Sir David Frost and Richard Nixon, this was originally broadcast in May of 1977. Never before (or... Read more
Fuck (2005)
7.1/10
Director: Steve Anderson
Starring: Drew Carey, Janeane Garofalo, Billy Connolly, Ron Jeremy, Kevin Smith, Alanis Mo...
The tagline reads, 'The movie that dare not speak its name', for obvious reasons. Steve Anderson's provocative documentary attempts to uncover the ex... Read more
Full-Tilt Boogie (1998)
6.5/10
Director: Sarah Kelly
Starring: Robert Rodriguez, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino
Chronicles 10 weeks in the life of a film cast and crew on and off the set of the wild and crazy blood and guts vampire romp "From Dusk until Dawn". D... Read more
Future By Design (2006)
8/10
Industrial engineer and futurist Jacque Fresco has bold prescriptions for solving the world's woes! Are his ideas the way of the future or the ravings... Read more
Galapagos: The Islands that Changed the World (2007)
7.1/10
Starring: Narrated by, Tilda Swinton
The inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, the Galapagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to an... Read more
Galileo's: Battle for the Heavens (2002)
Director: Peter Jones
Starring: Simon Gallow
At a time when heretics were burned alive for dissent, scientist Galileo Galilei risked his life to advance his revolutionary concepts of the universe... Read more
Gallipoli Submarine (2008)
8.2/10
Director: Steve Westh
An Irish skipper. An Australian submarine. A daring mission and an amazing episode in the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign that history has overlooked for... Read more