Screenplay: Leanne Pooley

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Leanne Pooley. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Beyond the Edge

2013 · Documentary · 93 min. · New Zealand

Direction Leanne Pooley

Cast Chad Moffitt

Synopsis Director Leanne Pooley (The Topp Twins) employs rarely seen footage, extensive archival interviews and stunning 3D technology to recreate the epic tale of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s conquest of Mt. Everest in 1953.

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6.7

47 votes

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

2009 · Documentary · 84 min. · New Zealand

Direction Leanne Pooley

Synopsis A revealing look into the lives of the world's only yodelling lesbian twin country-and-western singers. Doco uses the Twins' archive of home movies and performance footage, talks in depth to the girls themselves and also their alter egos: Ken and...

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The Girl on the Bridge

2020 · Documentary · 91 min. · New Zealand

Direction Leanne Pooley

Cast Paolo Ikonomi · Endrit Tafani · Jazz Thornton

Synopsis Documentary following a suicide-survivor who has become an advocate for suicidal young people as she makes a web series about a friend who took her own life.

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25 April

2015 · Documentary · 85 min. · New Zealand

Direction Leanne Pooley

Synopsis The tragic 1915 Gallipoli Campaign of WW1 is told through the perspective of six New Zealanders who were involved.

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Shackleton's Captain (TV)

2012 · Documentary · 52 min. · New Zealand

Direction Leanne Pooley

Cast Craig Parker · Charles Pierard · Hugh Barnard · Blake Henshaw

Synopsis In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew set off on the Endurance for Antarctica with the goal of crossing the continent. Yet even before reaching the coast, the ship became frozen in pack ice and was crushed. The fate...

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