Control Room
(2004) [M]

The bristling documentary about Al Jazeera, the satellite news network, during the American invasion of Iraq is a seminal film that explores how truth is gathered, presented, and ultimately created by those who deliver it. Control Room goes behind the scenes and stirs up a stew of contradictions...  More

Fahrenheit 9/11
(2004) [M]

Michael Moore's controversial Palme D'Or winning documentary takes on the Bush administration, from the contentious result of the Bush Gore election, through George W's uneventful first months as President (much of it spent away from Washington), to the attacks on September 11th, the subsequent...  More

Naqoyqatsi : Life is War
(2002) [G]

Miramax Films and Steven Soderbergh are proud to present NAQOYQATSI ("Life as War"), from filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, in collaboration with composer Philip Glass, whose original score features renowned cellist, Yo-Yo Ma. In this cinematic concert - a follow up to the critically acclaimed...  More

Capturing the Friedmans (2 disc set)
(2003) [MA]

Capturing The Friedmans is a non-fiction film that explores the elusive nature of the truth through the prism of one of the strangest criminal cases in American history. The Friedmans seem at first to be a typical family. Arnold Friedman is an award winning school teacher, his wife Elaine a...  More

The Fog of War
(2003) [PG]

Former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most controversial and influential political figures of the 20th century. Now - for the first time ever - he sits down one on one with award-winning director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue...  More

Shattered Glass
(2003) [M]

Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for Rolling Stones Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after...  More

Amandla
(2002) [PG]

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony is a soul-stirring and inspirational film that tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanized black South Africans for...  More

24 Hour Party People: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [MA]

Tony Wilson: a young Cambridge graduate and TV presenter, inspired by the Sex Pistols' first Manchester gig, founds Factory Records and the Hacienda night-club. The bands he signs include: Joy Division (New Order) and the Happy Mondays, while the Hacienda transforms Manchester into "Madchester" -...  More

The Night We Called It a Day
(2003) [M]

A surprisingly entertaining comedy about a young Aussie promoter (Joel Edgerton) who manages to convince Frank Sinatra and his crew to visit Australia for a few shows. All goes well until Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) runs into a TV reporter (played by Ally McBeal's Portia de Rossi) who claims he...  More

Yes Minister : Series 3 (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [G]

Yes Minister, is well known for being closer to the truth than those in the political arena would like to admit. Observe the amiable Jim Hacker PC, MP, B Sc (Econ) and his permanent Secretary, the urbane but evasive Sir Humphrey Appleby KCB, MVO, MA (Oxon), who together regularly balance the...  More

In Shifting Sands
(2007) [PG]

Ritter does not narrate the documentary but his interview footage appears extensively. "In Shifting Sands" was made before the 2003 Iraq invasion, but it illustrates and fills in the background of how the war came about, even if this was not it's intention. Another thing highlighted is how the UN...  More

Power And Terror Noam Chomsky In Our Times
(2002) [G]

Whether Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist and political philosopher, is the most important intellectual alive, as the New York Times once famously called him, is open for debate. But without a doubt, Chomsky, now 73, is one of the most straight-talking and committed dissidents of our time. A...  More

11 09 01 September 11
(2002) [M]

This film is a unique and extraordinary response to the catastrophic events in New York City that shook the world on September 11, 2001. producer Alain Brigand invited 11 renowned international directors to look towards their own cultures, their own memories, their own stories and their own...  More

Bowling For Columbine
(2003) [M]

Michael Moore, thorn in the side of corporate America, scourge of the political hypocrisy and all-round ass-kicker of those that need a boot in the behind. With his trademark charm and biting wit, Moore's Oscar-winning documentary Bowling For Columbine sets off on a rollicking journey to the...  More

Black And White
(2002) [M]

True story that created headline news in 1959. A young aboriginal man Max Stuart, was convicted of murder in the light of questionable evidence presented, of nine year old Mary Hattam near Ceduna, on the south coast of Australia. International News Media Baron, Rupert Murdoch (played by Ben...  More

Showtime
(2002) [M]

Showtime is fun time, an action/comedy tale of mismatched LAPD partners (Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy) directed by Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon). De Niro, wearing a slow-burn scowl like a badge, plays Mitch, a cop's cop forced by his superiors to be the focus of a reality-TV series. Murphy plays...  More

Harrison's Flowers
(2000) [MA]

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) is presumed dead in foreign territory, but his wife Sarah (Andie MacDowell) knows he's alive. Unable to convince her to turn back, Harrison colleagues join Sarah in her pursuit. Armed with their camera lenses, fellow...  More

Start Up .Com
(2001) [M]

Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the...  More

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992) [G]

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, imaginative graphics and...  More

42 Up
(1998) [PG]

In 1964, Michael Apted interviewed seven-year-old English kids: five or six from privilege, a Yorkshire farm kid, East-End girls, and boys from a children's home. Every seven years, Apted re-interviews those willing (two declined this time). At 42, careers are stuck or flourishing; marriages are...  More

Celebrity
(1998) [M]

With an incredible all-star cast, this critically acclaimed Woody Allen comedy takes an hysterical look at the pleasures and pitfalls of fortune and fame. Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in outrageously unpredictable directions. While Lee...  More

Mclibel - Two Worlds Collide
(1998) [PG]

A documentary filmed over three years and following the lives of Helen Steel and Dave Morris, a postman and a gardener, whose trial against fast food giants McDonalds became the longest in English history. Their case develops from the basic issues of nutrition, animals, advertising and the...  More

True Crime
(1999) [MA]

"Exciting. Eastwood is at his best."- Jack Garner, Gannett News Service. Boozer, Skirt chaser, Careless father. You could create your own list of veteran reporter Steve Everett's faults, but right now there isn't time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner will die at midnight - a man Everett has...  More

The Truman Show
(1998) [PG]

He's the star of the show-but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead poets Society) about a man whose life is a non stop TV show. Truman doesn't realise that his quaint hometown is...  More

Mad City
(1997) [M]

Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta team with award-winning filmmaker Costa Gavras (Z. Missing) in a fierce tale of ratings-driven TV news gone mad. Travolta is Sam, a misguided museum guard who loses his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint. Hoffman is Max, a local TV reporter taken hostage...  More

Ulysses' Gaze
(1995) [M]

Ulysses' Gaze traces the journey of Greek-American filmmaker, "Mr. A" (Harvey Keitel), across the Balkans in search of the past. He seeks three lost film reels made in the early years of cinema by two Greek brothers. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth....  More

Private Parts
(1997) [MA]

There's only one way to describe Howard Stern: funny. Private Parts captures Howard at his most hilarious, in a bare-all, no-jokes-barred look at a true entertainment sensation. Based on the #1 bestseller, Private Parts follows Howard's amazing transformation from school nerd to media superstar....  More

Network
(1976) [M]

Even more compelling today than when it was first released, Sidney Lumet's Network is a wickedly funny, spot–on indictment of the TV news media. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky), this searing satire...  More

Talk Radio
(1988) [M]

An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love...  More

Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle
(1994) [M]

An evocative portrait of renowned writer and wit Dorothy Parker which chronicles her boozy adventures both in Manhattan as a writer for The New Yorker and member of the celebrated Algonquin roundtable and later in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Jennifer Jason Leigh delivers a stunning performance...  More