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Buena Vista Social Club
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 13/Aug/2015 ] In 1996, composer, producer, and guitar legend Ry Cooder entered Egrem Studios in Havana with the forgotten greats of Cuban music, many of them in their 60s and 70s,... |
I am Bolt
[ Universal Pictures DVD / DVD - released 30/Nov/2016 ] Fully authorised, access-all-areas feature doc on the hugely charismatic and globally adored Usain Bolt officially the fastest man alive. With never-before-seen archive footage of his youth in Jamaica, through to original footage that will be... |
Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, The Student's Journey
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] The life, struggle, and teaching of world-renowned yogi BKS Iyengar. Hailed as 'the Michelangelo of yoga' and considered to be one of the most important yoga masters ever, B.K.S. Iyengar was credited with bringing the ancient art of yoga to the... |
Marina Abramovic In Brazil: The Space In Between
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Nov/2018 ] Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil in search of the spiritual forces of nature that are embedded in the culture of native Brazilians. Through communing with locals, partaking in local traditions, and venturing out into caves and forests, she... |
Merkel
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 18/Jan/2024 ] For years, Angela Merkel, the first woman Chancellor of Germany, was Western Europe's most powerful leader. Nonetheless, she remains something of an enigma. Clear-eyed, cool-headed, diligent, and methodical, she put her politics first, setting... |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time With Feeling (Blu-ray)
[ Bad Seed / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 31/Mar/2017 ] One More Time Feeling is the feature film about the making of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds'acclaimed album Skeleton Tree directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford). Visually unique, One More Time... |
On Any Sunday (50th Anniversary Remastered Edition)
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 2/Dec/2021 ] "I think Bruce Brown's motorcycle film "On Any Sunday" is the best thing that has ever happened to motorcycling. The audience is taken on a visual ride in what I believe is finally the definitive film on motorcycling. To me it is an unforgettable... |
Secret Impressionists
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 10/Jun/2021 ] Secret Impressionists tells the story of the art revolution at the core of the Impressionist movement, through an exploration of fifty legendary paintings - hidden treasures previously inaccessible to the general public, now on display in Rome for... |
Spookers
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 25/Oct/2017 ] As night falls at Spookers, dozens of seemingly ordinary people become freaks, zombies and chainsaw-wielding clowns. Every weekend come rain, hail or shine, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern... |
All For One
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 7/Dec/2017 ] All For One follows the first five years of the GreenEDGE cycling journey. United by their renegade spirit and a determination to win against substantial odds, these riders take on the international circuit. The film offers unique insights into the... |
Between Land And Sea
[ HiGloss / DVD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] BETWEEN LAND AND SEA spends a year in Lahinch, a small town on Ireland's West Coast, and the unlikely location of one of Europe's best big-wave breaks. This observational documentary - at times intimate, at times epic - embeds itself within Lahinch's... |
Botticelli, Florence And The Medici
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/Oct/2021 ] "Beauty, creativity, genius: the Renaissance Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici was a powerhouse of art and culture. Among countless shops and government buildings, there was endless beauty coexisting with the dark side of the city, made up of power... |
Defend Conserve Protect
[ Madman NZ / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] Narrated by Dan Aykroyd, Defend, Conserve, Protect pits the marine conservation group, Sea Shepherd - a passionate group of eco-activists - against the Japanese whaling fleet, in an epic battle to defend the majestic Minke whales of the Southern... |
A Family Affair
[ HiGloss DVD / DVD - released 14/Jan/2016 ] A Family Affair is an intimate and intoxicating portrait of the renowned Xylouris family, who have been maintaining the musical traditions of their native Crete for generations. Following three generations of the family legendary Psarantonis, his son... |
Frida: Viva La Vida
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] The film highlights 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, victim of her tortured body and a tormented relationship. With Asia Argento as... |
Gurrumul
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning through songs and music... |
Hemingway - A Film By Ken Burns And Lynn Novick
[ ViaVision DVD / 3 DVD - released 2/Dec/2021 ] Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's six-hour documentary series, HEMINGWAY, examines the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and most influential American writers - Ernest Hemingway. Intimate and insightful, the series weaves together... |
Hitler Versus Picasso
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2022 ] In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize "Degenerate Art" (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify "Classic Art". This immersive documentary reveals the... |
James & Isey
[ Madman / DVD - released 2/Sep/2021 ] Isey lives with her adult son James on their small farm in Kawakawa, New Zealand. They are descendents of Ngāti Manu - the bird people. Isey is turning 100 years in a week. In their unique relationship, James has devoted the last 20 years to... |
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
[ HiGloss DVD / DVD - released 16/Jan/2020 ] John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection finds the mercurial tennis legend at the height of his career, documenting his quest for perfection, his frustrations, and the hardest loss of his life, against Ivan Lendl at the 1984 French Open. |
Older Than Ireland
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Often funny and at times poignant, the film explores each centenarian's journey, from their birth at the dawn of Irish independence to their life as a centenarian in modern day Ireland. Reflecting on such key events as the day they got their first... |
Preserved Lines Of Great Britain
[ Via Vision / 5 DVD - released 8/Apr/2016 ] Preserved Lines traces the history of over a hundred railways lines from its BR demise to the present day celebrating the history, preservation, restoration and people involved with some of the UK s finest heritage railway lines. This 5 DVD boxed set... |
Rachel's Farm
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 2/Nov/2023 ] Film director and actress Rachel Ward is not the first person you'd expect to join a farming revolution. In this triumphant film, Rachel voyages from wilful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture on her own rural property,... |
Raphael: The Young Prodigy
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 2/Dec/2021 ] Raphael: The Young Prodigy tells the story of the artist from Urbino, beginning with his extraordinary early portraits of women - the Mother, the Friend, the Secret Lover and the Client. Delve into Raphael's uncanny ability to capture celestial... |
RBG
[ Icon DVD / DVD - released 23/Jan/2019 ] At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive,... |
That Sugar Film (Blu-ray)
[ Madman Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Jul/2015 ] THAT SUGAR FILM is one man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'.... |
Last Shop Standing: The Rise, The Fall and the Rebirth of the Independent Record Shop
[ DVD - released 20/Dec/2013 ] "You are never going to discover Captain Beefheart or the 13th Floor Elevators or the Velvet Underground in your local supermarket, ever." - Richard Hawley Last Shop Standing, inspired by the book of the same name by Graham Jones, takes you behind... |
He Wasn't Just the Fifth member of Joy Division (Martin Hannett)
[ Ozit / DVD - released 13/Jun/2014 ] |
All Governments Lie
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 9/Nov/2017 ] All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Legacy of I.F. Stone is a theatrical documentary created by a team of Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, who subscribed to I. F. Stone's newsletter in their teens. "I. F. Stone's Weekly" inspired us then,... |
Ants On A Shrimp: Noma In Tokyo
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 13/Apr/2017 ] Ants On A Shrimp is an exploration of creativity and inspiration, and a journey of discovery into the people and places, sights and sounds, tastes and flavours, of one of the world's most amazing food cultures. In January 2015, Noma, recognized as... |
Apocalypse - Stalin
[ Aztec International / 2 DVD - released 14/Apr/2016 ] Who was Stalin? The man who defeated Nazism? The "Little Father of the Peoples"? Or the greatest criminal of his time? In Apocalypse Stalin, three 52-minute episodes, Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle paint the portrait of one of the fiercest... |
Becoming Bond
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 12/Oct/2017 ] A unique documentary/narrative hybrid chronicling the stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret... |
Before The Flood
[ National Geographic / DVD - released 11/May/2017 ] If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change would you want to know? Before the Flood features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate... |
Being Evel
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] Millions know the man, but few know his story. In BEING EVEL, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Junge and actor/producer Johnny Knoxville take a candid look at American daredevil and icon Robert Evel' Knievel, while also reflecting on our... |
The Biggest Little Farm
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity... |
Blackfish
[ Madman / DVD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] Never capture what you can't control. On February 24, 2010, police were called to a marine park in Florida after a killer whale had taken the life of one of its trainers. The whale, Tilikum, had killed before, but yet had been allowed to continue... |
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr! |
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] It's high adventure, triumph and tragedy as we journey around the world in the wake of one of the greatest explorers of all time James Cook. A hero to some, a curse to others, in just three incredible voyages this son of an English labourer described... |
Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 11/May/2017 ] The true story of one of the world's greatest supermodel agents When he created the Elite modeling agency in the 1970s, John Casablancas invented the concept of the supermodel. If names like Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Iman, Gisele or Kate are part of... |
Cats Uncovered
[ SBS / BBC / DVD - released 3/Dec/2015 ] Aloof. Disdainful. Vicious. Or friendly, fluffy balls of fur who just want to be loved. Opinions on cats tend to differ though one thing is sure they occupy a very special place in the hearts of many. But how much do we really know about them?... |
