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THE COVE (2009)

Certification12 Our Rating

A top notch documentary following an undercover team, who in a daring act of espionage, record the bloody annual slaughter of over 2,000 dolphins in Taiji National Park, Japan, by the local fishing community. This slaughter is commercially driven not only by the sale of cheap 'whale' meat to supermarkets, but the huge value of those taken alive for dolphinaria, a craze that, to his everlasting sadness, was introduced by current activist, project instigator and once trainer of dolphins for the find out more...


Certification15 Our Rating

Robert McNamara was the American secretary of defence during the presidencies of both Kennedy and Johnson, a man that history hasn't got much good to say about. In this remarkable interview McNamara attempts to cast himself in a more favourable light, but it is his revelations concerning the whys and wherefores of events such as the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam which make the Fog of War such a hypnotic documentary. Superb. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

This honest and affecting documentary uses news reports, archival footage and talking heads to describe the politics of the gay rights movement surrounding the election and assassination of openly homosexual San Franciscan councillor Harvey Milk. The movie concentrates on the emergence of a gay political movement within the electoral system, the 1978 fight against Proposition 6, which would have banned gay and lesbian individuals from teaching in schools, and the scandalously low sentence given find out more...

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Stunning, critically acclaimed documentary biopic of probably the most famous boxer in history, Muhammad Ali. This is a riveting portrait of a man who had a profound effect on all around him. Much, much more than just a boxing movie, "When We Were Kings" is a master class in greatness! Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Thomas Hauser and Spike Lee are included as talking heads and the DVD version contains several extra treats, namely the complete coverage of the 'Rumble in the Jungle' and also the find out more...