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Liberal Rule : The politics that changed Australia
(2009)

Liberal Rule is an inside look at the Howard Government and its impact on Australia after more than 11 years in power. This landmark three-part series gathers the stories of the key participants, from the former PM down. The nation's foremost thinkers are also tapped to add meaning to the...  More

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
(1989) [PG]

This film recounts the lives and deaths of various victims of AIDS who are commemorated in the AIDS quilt. It is a massive cloth collecting each piece as a memorial for each victim of the disease to both show the death toll and to show the humanity of the victims to those who would rather...  More

Capitalism: A Love Story
(2009) [M]

When the Global Financial Crisis hit its lowest point America was in meltdown. Still amidst a country in the grip home foreclosures, losing 25% of its national worth and laying off up to fourteen thousand blue collar workers a day, the fat cats on wall street asked the very people they were...  More

Herb and Dorothy
(2008) [G]

HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and...  More

Derek Jarman: Life as Art
(2004) [M]

This documentary features interviews with British filmmaker Derek Jarman's actors, most notably Tilda Swinton as well as Jarman's set designer, composer, producer, sister and biographer who pay tribute radical gay director's life and oeuvre. This documentary covers both obscure films like...  More

The September Issue
(2009) [M]

Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for twenty years, is the most powerful and polarising figure in fashion. Hidden behind her trademark bob and sunglasses, she has never allowed anyone to scrutinise the inner workings of her magazine. Until now. With unprecedented...  More

Ballerina
(2007) [G]

Hers is a rare art. Her craft as demanding as an athlete. Her dancing life as brief as a butterfly. All to a vision of fragile beauty. A vision of what it is to be a woman. Ballerina follows the destinies of five female dancers of the Kirov Ballet in Saint-Petersburg. Their lives weave together...  More

My Winnipeg
(2007) [M]

Witty, surreal, irreverent and beautiful, Guy Maddin's fictional documentary is a dreamlike homage to his hometown of Winnipeg. Maddin may wish to forget his upbringing in regional Canada, but My Winnipeg is testimony to the unique experiences of childhood and how they shape one's identity....  More

Of Time and the City
(2008) [M]

Of Time and The City is both a love song and a eulogy to the directors birthplace of Liverpool. It is also a response to memory, reflection and the experience of losing a sense of place as the skyline changes and time takes it toll.

Celebrated director Terence Davies takes a trip back...  More

In Search of Beethoven
(2009) [G]

From award winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky, this unique motion picture explores the romantic myth of Beethoven. Delving beyond the image of the tortured and unhinged personality, In Search of Beethoven takes you further than any previous biography of history's greatest composer.  More