DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

Films by topic Politics

Displaying 1-10 of 21 films.

  • Chicago 10

    USA A stunning animated documentary about the build-up to and unravelling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial through bold graphics and extraordinary archival footage.

  • Crude Impact

    USA This film uncovers the complex entanglement of the fate of humankind with its fierce dependence on petroleum providing vital inspiration for change.

  • Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

    New Zealand/South Africa/Australia South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys opens his previously off-limits inner world to NZ writer-director Julian Shaw.

  • Do Not Resuscitate

    Australia Do Not Resuscitate is a film about the truths people face when dealing with their own mortality. Steve, Mary and Judy want the right to choose how and when they die.

  • Freeheld

    USA Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer, fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree.

  • Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

    USA Ghosts of Abu Ghraib demands that the US examine its conscience as a nation as it explores the many troubling questions behind the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

  • The Hands of Che Guevara

    The Netherlands When the body of Che Guevara was found in 1997, the last mystery about Guevara’s life seemed resolved — until it became apparent his hands were missing.

  • Just Punishment

    Australia Australian Van Nguyen was executed for drug smuggling in 2005 by the Singaporean government, amid media frenzy and diplomatic tension between the two governments.

  • Main Trunk Country Road Song

    New Zealand Main Trunk Country Road Song tells the story of the threatened closure of the iconic and historic passenger rail service that winds its way over the North Island of NZ.

  • My Husband Andrei Sakharov

    Latvia/France How did Andrei Sakharov — academician, intellectual, “brains of the Soviet regime" — became a champion of human rights and enemy of the Soviet system?