Documentaries & Biographies > 1999 Documentaries & Biographies > up to 5 GBP

Advantages: entruiging!
Disadvantages: disturbing!

...a world record by having sex with 251 men in 10 hours and this is what bought her the media attention that led to this DVD being made. Both as Grace Quek and as Annabel Chong she claimed to be a feminist campaigning for women’s rights and during this DVD you can hear recordings of Grace Quek giving her reasons for making this type of video when she is supposed to be fighting for women’s rights, she claims that by doing this type of movie she is ...
...face during the 251 men sex session to know that she is certainly not enjoying it and enough shots of the faces of the men to know what they think of the girl before them. I will tick the box for recommending this DVD to others but I will warn here first that this has to be something you are sure you want to see in order for it to be watched. Liberated porn queen or psychological wreck? You be the judge. I was given a loan of this DVD so I had ... Read review

Advantages: A new look at Anne's world, fascinating footage
Disadvantages: The second documentary has faults

...fascinated by the life of Anne Frank since I was young and I read her diary. My Mum had been interested too and it was her copy of the book that I read. As an adult, my interest has extended and I have not only read many books on the Frank family but also biographies and autobiographies of other victims of concentration camps and survivors. So when I saw this DVD on Ebay for £12.99, I found it easy to click on ‘Buy it now’. (I usually do!) Having ...
...contains two documentaries – Remembering Anne Frank (51 minutes, 1999) and The Short Life Of Anne Frank (28 minutes, 2002). There are no extras on the DVD, only scene access, so don’t buy this if you are looking for something more. I was happy with my purchase, as both documentaries were good and both offered something I had never seen before. ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED This documentary is the main feature of the DVD and follows Miep Gies as she visits ... Read review

Advantages: Masterfully edited, full of astounding footage both familiar and otherwise...a classic.
Disadvantages: None.

...rarely-seen footage and interview material, No Direction Home is, for the first half at least, as much about America in the pause-for-breath moment between the beat writers of the 1950s and the counter-culture student movements of the mid-to-late 1960s as it is about the life and work of Robert Zimmerman. It is - clichéd as it sounds - a sweeping, engrossing portrait of a time and of a place, scouring the terrain leads from the rattle-tattle zap-pow ...
...of Odetta's acoustic guitar, from the wandering shoes of Neil Cassidy to those of Woody Guthrie. Dylan features heavily throughout this section of the film, of course, but he is very much a character-in-the-making. When he does take centre-stage in time for the second half (the film is, incidentally, almost four hours long), it is via some of the most compelling footage available, some of it assumed lost or destroyed. A talking heads documentary ... Read review

Advantages: Uncompromising, thought-provoking meld of exploitation and propaganda.
Disadvantages: Morally disturbing, apparently uncertain of its audience at times.

...Executions. Like the latter, The Killing Of America parades its grotesqueries (sundry assassinations, beatings, slaughters...) in the service of a core political message - a message which, in this instance, is almost as disturbing as the carnage onscreen. The film almost seems to call for vigilante justice, and a reactionary, right-wing tone informs most every scene. It is, however, a fascinating picture in its own right, a strange, curious meld ... Read review

Advantages: big budget-good fun-good story
Disadvantages: unscary morlocks

...modern remake of the 1960s time machine. This movie is about Hg wells remake of the original "time machine" back in the 1960s. The 2002 remake stars Guy Pearce .... Alexander Hartdegen Mark Addy .... David Filby Orlando Jones .... Vox Samantha Mumba .... Mara Omero Mumba .... Kalen Jeremy Irons .... Uber-Morlock Sienna Guillory .... Emma Phyllida Law .... Mrs. Watchet this movie is about a Victorian man named Alexander who lost his loved ...
...and save her but every time he returns she always dies a painful death, he then decides to travel further into the future going from one time to another eventually he settles in 800000 ad. Alexander encounters a new species called the morlocks who have lived for many centuries, they are big and very fast and strong, they feed off the human race who now live in huts or tents attached to the side of river banks. I have never been a big fan of remakes ... Read review