Restrepo
Hetherington, T., & Junger, S. (2010). Restrepo. [Television Broadcast] Melbourne:ABC.
One platoon, one valley, one tear ... Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Broadcast as part of ABC's Sunday Best.
I Am
Shadyak, T. (2010). I Am. [Television Broadcast] USA: Shady Acres Entertainment.
I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what's wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents Tom Shadyac's first foray into non-fiction following a career as one of Hollywood's leading comedy practitioners, with such successful titles as Ace Ventura and Liar Liar to his credit. I AM recounts what happened to the filmmaker after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged a changed man.
We Come as Friends
Sauper, H. (Director). (2014). We come as friends. [Feature Film] Austria: Adelante Films.
As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.
Cartel Land (Trailer)
Heineman, M. (2015). Cartel Land. [Television Broadcast] USA: The Orchard.
Award-winning documentary about two Mexican vigilante groups and their shared enemy, the drug cartels who wreak havoc on their towns. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman and Executive Producer Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero DarkThirty) get a visceral, on-the-ground look at the a citizen uprising in the Mexican state of Michoacán who are fighting off the violent Knights Templar cartel, and also head to Arizona, where an American veteran is leading a small paramilitary group to make sure Mexico's drug wars don't seep across the border.
Religulous
Charles, L (Director) (2008). Religulous [Television Broadcast] Melbourne: ABC.
Comedian, acerbic commentator, raconteur, skeptic seeker Bill Maher and Larry Charles (director of Borat) set off in search of answers in this raunchy, rude, irreverent, outrageous and shocking documentary about the greatest fiction ever told. From the Western Wall to the Vatican, from self-professed messiahs to self-professed pariahs, their aim is to expose the hypocrisy and corruption in organised religion and highlight the absurdly hilarious logic that holds it together.
AFL 2019: Players speak in unison, supporting Adam Goodes documentary The Final Quarter, calling for change
Laughton, M. (2019). AFL 2019: Players speak in unison, supporting Adam Goodes documentary The Final Quarter, calling for change. Retrieved from https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2019-players-speak-in-unison-supporting-adam-goodes-documentary-the-final-quarter-calling-for-change/news-story/2eaede31a6f5c8e577d25e71f2e8a8a7
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Foxsports. (2019). ‘The Final Quarter’ documentary highlights the AFL’s failure to promptly deal with racism towards Adam Goodes. Retrieved from https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/the-final-quarter-documentary-highlights-the-afls-failure-to-promptly-deal-wi
A documentary detailing the closing years of Adam Goodes’ career has highlighted how the delay the AFL took in responding to booing compounded the racist treatment of the dual Brownlow Medallist.
The documentary The Final Quarter aired on Channel 10 on Thursday night.
It illustrated how Goodes was relentlessly booed throughout the final three seasons of his career, the media scrutiny that contributed to the targeting of the Swans great, and the AFL’s failure to step in early enough to stop it.
Indigenous Brownlow Medallist Gavin Wanganeen said the prolonged nature of the harassment, and how isolated Goodes had been, was particularly telling.
Terror
Alvi, S. (Director). (2018). Terror. [Television Broadcast] USA: SBS Viceland.
Traveling to Somalia, home to one of the world's most brutal terrorist groups, Suroosh Alvi documents the rise of Al Shabaab and their relentless reign of terror across the country.